Few weeks back I got new storage for my vSphere kingdom brand new IBM DS8800 Technical specs: CPU – POWER 6 – 4 way processor per unit (2 units) Cache – 384 GB cache shared memory Ports:  32 x 8Gbps HDD: 450GB 10k SAS2 HDD: 300GB 15k SAS2 RAID: 5 Max capa:...

Today, second part of traffic flows series storage vMotion with VAAI. Scenario: Storage vMotion of virtual machine VMDKs from VMFS2 datastore to VMFS5 datastore, storage supports VAAI. 2 ESX servers connected to shared storage ( in example I have FC storage Active/Active) VM runs on ESX1 VAAI enabled on both, storage and ESX server Storage vMotion initiated by vCenter server, ESX1 server sent “instructions” to storage that it...

Many users have difficulties with understanding how the traffic flows during vMotion, storage vMotion, virtual machine clone, P2V or V2V. I decided to explain and to put on pictures, which part of infrastructure is used during such activities. Today I’m focusing on storage activities such as Storage vMotion and clone Scenario 1: Storage vMotion between datastores which are on the same storage box ( in example I have FC storage...