Questions tagged [lun]
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Xen cannot see all the LUNs in ISCSI HP StorageWorks MSA2312i Dual Controller Modular Smart Array
I have a HP StorageWorks MSA2312i Dual Controller Modular Smart Array
and a second enclosure.
I have four vdisks:
vd01 (RAID5) (Current Owner A)
vd02 (RAID5) (Current Owner B)
vd03 (RAID10) (Current Owner A)
vd04 (RAID10) (Current Owner B)
With…
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How to share a fibre channel filesystem between 2 hosts?
I have 2 hosts in isolated networks (no network access from one to another). There is a storage system accessible over fibre channel from both hosts.
Is it possible to have both hosts have a safe read-write access to the same LUN?
If yes, what are…
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New lun doesnt work well
Actually we have a server with Oracle Linux 5.8 in which we present clones of production LUN and then we open a clone of the database for several querys.
The problem begin when we execute this command to find the new cloned LUN
find…
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Attach local disk to a VM in VMware ESXi
I'm sorry if this has been asked before.
We are planning to attach a local SAS disk to a VM, so the VM can access the disk directly. We're using VMware ESXi 4.
I have heard that this can be done with SAN LUNs. But how about local disks?
Our storage…
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LUN storage disk in 2 servers, can't see the files
I have one LUN disk connected over FC with linux server ( with centos) and esxi server with VM in Centos. (Two machines work in different LAN's.) In both machines i see this disk. In VM i created the partition and format in ext4 file system(ext3 i…
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How to rebuild my NAS
Today I have a QNAP TS-859U+ with 8 X 2TB disks in it.
As it's was setup on day-1 it uses a single volume on a raid 5.
The volume has currently a mixture of:
2 shared folders
5 iScsi Targets - of which
1 is a 1TB datastore to a VMware ESXi5
3…
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Dell MD3200i config query
Just a short query: I have a Dell Md3200i setup to serve LUNs to my 2 physical hosts and I'm running vSphere/ESXi v5 with a number of VM's. Is it normal behavior for ALL VM's and LUN's to run off the one controller all the time? At the moment…
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How to delete a file in a LUN that gives an error?
I have a 1.5GB LUN, on a QNAP NAS.
The LUN is attached to a W2K3, and has some folders shared on it.
On one sub-folder there is a specific file, that is corrupted. I need to delete it, but I can't even access it.
The file is
The error I get when…
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Do I require a clustered file system to share a LUN via VMWare?
I want to avoid this:
How can I use NTFS and iSCSI and not corrupt my SAN?
On possbility I may have is to share out a LUN from my SAN and have other machines access that shared drive. In other words, VMWare will present it to other machines as a…
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Use Hyper-V guest os as san for vm:s
I'm looking into setting up a virtualization server at home. I have settled on hyper-v since I want to try remotefx.
What I'm contemplating is if it's possible to run freenas as a guest. Passthrough all my datadisks to the freenas guest and use the…
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Read LUN from dell SAN with a PC on linux
We are currently using a md3000i DELL SAN server with a RAID1.
I would like to access the information on one disk from a workstation.
The hard disk contains 2 LUN but I can only access the first one.
Any ideas how to access the other LUN ?
It is…
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LUNs and snapshot pool size
Typical mail server, let's say 20GB of mails, partition size 100GB. I'm transferring to a LUN on shared storage P2000 and designing the whole thing. What it is typical snapshot size in this situation ? Requirement is to have 2,3 days of incremental…
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As a small business about to overhaul infrastructure and go virtual, how can we take advantage of all the features of the QNAP TS-439 Pro II+?
Specifically, how can we benefit from these current list of features? We're very new to this and I want to be able to talk intelligently to our IT consultant.
VMware Ready
Citrix Ready
Built-in iSCSI target service
Virtual Disk Drive (via iSCSI…
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How to use more than 10 block level iSCSI volumes on Synology DSM 2.3 for ESXi
We have a Synology NAS RS810RP+ running DSM 2.3-1161 and there are several block level iSCSI devices configured. Each of the devices is used as iSCSI harddrive for a different ESXi VM.
(Every VM has one device and every device belongs to one VM,…
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File Server - One large LUN or multiple smaller LUNs?
We're about to replace a bunch of kit (servers, SAN etc.) and migrate our servers across from their current platform.
Our file server has around 8tb of data on it right now, spread across 5 LUNs (all on the same SAN mind you).
To my mind the pro's…
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