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Is there a way to make the vnxe create version 5 VMFS file system while creating the volumes through VMware tab? Keeps creating version 3 volumes
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Is there a way to make the vnxe create version 5 VMFS file system while creating the volumes through VMware tab? Keeps creating version 3 volumes
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DynaDin
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February 5th, 2013 20:00
When you create a VMware storage in VNXe the integration software creates only VMFS-3 volumes at ESX side. Currently VMFS version 5 is still not available within the integration software. You can create a generic iSCSI volume and present it to ESX host. After that you need to manually add storage on vSphere to format it with VMFS5.
VNxe
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February 5th, 2013 20:00
By default, the VNXe uses VMFS3 as file system type and a block size of 8MB when creating a VMware VMFS
datastore through the VNXe GUI. To create VMFS-5 datastore you need to delete the datastore that VNXe
created and recreate it using Add Storage option on host.
Anonymous
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February 6th, 2013 08:00
Hi,
Currently, VNXe only supports creating a VMFS3 file system from the VMware provisioning wizard. To upgrade to VMFS5, users can create the VMFS in the GUI, go into vSphere and delete the VMFS volume and reformat it with VMFS5. VMFS5 wizard support is currently planned for a code release scheduled for 2H 2013.
Regards,
Veena