prateeksaurabh
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Hi All, I dont have much knowledge about storage but i am windows admin and learning VMware.
I have made nested ESXi environment. I have FreeNAS 8.0.3 x 64bit with 2 GB RAM, E1000 adapter and 16GB to drive where i installed freenas and another 300GB for shared storage that i would connecting to main Host ESXI and other nested ESXIs. The 300 GB target that i made i have tried both UFS and ZFS file system and i using simple RAID0 with no redundancy at all for best performance. I have also Multipath configured for this 300GB target on all the host ESXis. I am having 2 spare NICs so the moment i introduced second NIC as multipath the performance significantly increased so i thought is bandwidth the problem? So I introduced also 3rd NIC but this time i didnt notice any better performance.
Now i am left out to believe that my hard disk could be a problem which i am trying to use as sharedstorage as it is not SSD but simple 7200 RPM WD 500GB hard drive.
All right now question arises what am i doing and when i get these errors. I have made 1 datastore of almost 1TB (960GB) joining two 500GBs drives. Then carving out 300GB LUN out of it for ISCSI. I have made a folder ISO in that 1TB drive where i have kept all my ISOs. Now when i am trying to create a VM (win server 2008 R2) with its vmdk, vmx etc file in 300GB shared storage i get this error and then this datastore (shared storage) becomes inactive
Please find the error log attached here
I have made nested ESXi environment. I have FreeNAS 8.0.3 x 64bit with 2 GB RAM, E1000 adapter and 16GB to drive where i installed freenas and another 300GB for shared storage that i would connecting to main Host ESXI and other nested ESXIs. The 300 GB target that i made i have tried both UFS and ZFS file system and i using simple RAID0 with no redundancy at all for best performance. I have also Multipath configured for this 300GB target on all the host ESXis. I am having 2 spare NICs so the moment i introduced second NIC as multipath the performance significantly increased so i thought is bandwidth the problem? So I introduced also 3rd NIC but this time i didnt notice any better performance.
Now i am left out to believe that my hard disk could be a problem which i am trying to use as sharedstorage as it is not SSD but simple 7200 RPM WD 500GB hard drive.
All right now question arises what am i doing and when i get these errors. I have made 1 datastore of almost 1TB (960GB) joining two 500GBs drives. Then carving out 300GB LUN out of it for ISCSI. I have made a folder ISO in that 1TB drive where i have kept all my ISOs. Now when i am trying to create a VM (win server 2008 R2) with its vmdk, vmx etc file in 300GB shared storage i get this error and then this datastore (shared storage) becomes inactive
Please find the error log attached here