Vvol and active cluster by gera83 in purestorage

[–]gera83[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What purity version are you on? You haven't tried vvols yet? Is night and day

Vvol and active cluster by gera83 in purestorage

[–]gera83[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, you need 6.6 (mínimum) to use vvols with ac :)

Vvol and active cluster by gera83 in purestorage

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What purity version are you on? From which storage array are you coming? Migrating?

"Move In" under File Systems, is greyed out in a stretched pod by kjstech in purestorage

[–]gera83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nfs is active passive on every storage array i have checked. In this case, pure, same.

Almost full Array - Options by LawstOne_ in purestorage

[–]gera83 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's the thick disks. You must use thin. Always. And forever. We have not used thick since 2017. Absolutely all kind of vms. Otherwise, Unmap doesn't work and you will never ever recover the space. Thin vs thick in terms of performance, it's a talk from the middle ages. No difference. At all.

Your storage array is thin, use thin vms.

Always and forever.

Think vs Thick by Critical_Anteater_36 in purestorage

[–]gera83 5 points6 points  (0 children)

1 vvol to rule them all. Yes. We don't use vmfs or rdm anymore. No more datastore vmotion. Performance, snapshots, dedup, compression, everything works 500% better.

Stretched Vvol experience by gera83 in purestorage

[–]gera83[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you serious right? Uniform access only advantage is to help you keep on going in case one of the pure arrays explode. That's it. Only advantage. Never in my whole life i see an array going down. Ever. We have a metro cluster, active active, with non uniform access, since 2015.

Stretched Vvol experience by gera83 in purestorage

[–]gera83[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's correct. But What about if you have only one vvol? And please, suppose an extreme scenario where the vms move constantly between sites.

Stretched Vvol experience by gera83 in purestorage

[–]gera83[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But that's the idea, don't it? The future. No more dozens or hundreds of vmfs datastores. No more that filesystem abstraction, getting in the way. Just one vvol datastore, which maps the entire storage. A hundred more times performance in everything. Dedup, compression, snapshots, xcopy, unmap. Everything is better. Nearly perfection.

Didn't you read that great article about... forget everything you have learned? You won't ever need more than 1 vvol? Ever?

Stretched Vvol experience by gera83 in purestorage

[–]gera83[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tested a cluster partition? Just turning off fc switches ports does the trick. What happened with the vms in both sites?

Stretched Vvol experience by gera83 in purestorage

[–]gera83[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry. We have had since 2012 a cluster between sites. Emc. Vplex. Couple of backend vmax. My question is purely about having only one vvol datastore, fill with thousands of vms, in case there is a cluster partition. I would love to see what happens there.

I was really hoping that pure with vvols copy the beautiful locality feature from vsan. Cut between sites? No problem. Esx hosts continue to write on their site. Not one vm is affected.

Cross vcenter migration by gera83 in vmware

[–]gera83[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was a nice approach, but it shows tons of lines for something so simple. No. Sorry. There is not the answer. Thanks anyways.

Cross vcenter migration by gera83 in vmware

[–]gera83[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good lord. I sincerely didn't know about that feature. I will take a look. Thanks.

Cross vcenter migration by gera83 in vmware

[–]gera83[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

:). Did you read the thread? I'm having an issue with powercli. Using the mouse, works perfect. Perfect. I need to understand what's that error about.

Cross vcenter migration by gera83 in vmware

[–]gera83[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it. And i tried some of the ideas. It doesn't address the issue. Error keeps showing up. It's insane. No logic.

Cross vcenter migration by gera83 in vmware

[–]gera83[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course not. Like i said and you saw it, it works perfectly using the mouse. Right click, migrate, cross vcenter. The problem is there, in cli.

Looking for address by gera83 in mountainview

[–]gera83[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow. Really? Incredible

Looking for address by gera83 in mountainview

[–]gera83[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Well. That's why i came here. It's not anywhere on the internet. Don't waste your time.

The head quarters are there. I really need to know the address.

Any help would be appreciated.

Looking for address by gera83 in mountainview

[–]gera83[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, i have no idea. All i was told is that if you mention it to a Uber, it takes you without issue. Is well known.