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June 24th, 2016 16:00
SCALEIO in my vmware environment
Hi,
Am trying to implement SCALEIO in my vmware environment
can any one help me by providing installation documents
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June 24th, 2016 16:00
Hi,
Am trying to implement SCALEIO in my vmware environment
can any one help me by providing installation documents
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Suriya_007
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June 24th, 2016 18:00
Ya i have the documents while trying to deploy a vm its getting below error, 1 VM is creating next 2 VM getting failed
ScaleIO-VMDK-622861989.vmdk is larger than the maximum size supported by datastore
FAILED (Error code: VMWARE_CANNOT_ADD_DEVICES_TO_VM)
osaddict
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June 24th, 2016 18:00
They are included with the download. There is the Quick Start Guide, the Deployment Guide and the User Guide.
osaddict
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June 24th, 2016 19:00
What kind of datastore are you using? How much free space is there?
Suriya_007
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June 27th, 2016 01:00
Am using 3 * 1 TB ISCSI Storage Each Storage have 600 GB free space
pawelw1
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June 27th, 2016 03:00
Have a look at:
https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1029697&sliceId=2&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=129826188&stateId=0%200%20129834037
Did you select "Advanced/EnableVMDK creation"?
Suriya_007
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June 28th, 2016 03:00
Yes i have selected Advance/Enable VMDK Creatio, While am deploying scaleio am deploying 3 machine in 3 different host 1 vm is completed successfully next 2 vm are getting failed with the above error
pawelw1
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June 30th, 2016 12:00
Can you attach deployment logs here?
Suriya_007
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July 2nd, 2016 09:00
Kindly find the error
pawelw1
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July 2nd, 2016 13:00
Hi Suriya,
It looks like adding VMDK devices to the VMs is failing when the size of the VMDK is > 500GB.
There was a limitation with VMFS3 that wouldn't allow you to create larger disks that 512GB with certain block size, can it be a similar problem? What exactly is your ESXi version, VMFS version on that datastore, and the block size?
I would do the following - on the 2 ESXi hosts that are failing create files that will take up some space, so remaining space on the datastores you are going to use for ScaleIO is less that 500GB - possibly close to free space on the ESXi host which is working (around 400GB), then rerun the wizard and see if that helped. If yes, you will need to consult VMware to find out exactly what the problem was.
Best,
Pawel
Suriya_007
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July 9th, 2016 11:00
Hi Pawel
What exactly is your ESXi version? --> Vmware Esxi 5.5
VMFS version --> 3.46
Blocksize --> 1 MB
Kindly help on this
pawelw1
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July 10th, 2016 11:00
Hi Suriya,
Please try the workaround I provided in my previous post - create some files on the datastores you are going to use for ScaleIO so the free space is less than 500GB, closer to 400 and try to deploy ScaleIO system again - this is not a SIO problem, you are hitting VMware limitation. See here:
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1003565
Thank you,
Pawel
pawelw1
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July 11th, 2016 05:00
You can also try to convert VMFS3 to VMFS5 which should allow you to use virtually any size of the VMDKs...