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September 4th, 2011 14:00

metalun vmware

i expanded a lun to a meta lun in navisphere. bu vmware does not recognixe this new size. what to do? i have data and live vms running on the lun

  • dynamox

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    Posted September 4th, 2011 15:00

    if you are on vSphere < 5 , VMFS limit is 2TB. If your LUN is greater than that you will need to use extents.

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    Posted September 4th, 2011 15:00

    yes rescanned. this is 4.1 u1

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    Posted September 4th, 2011 15:00

    its only a 300gb lun and i added 300 more.

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    Posted September 4th, 2011 15:00

    in navisphere the metalun status is expanding.

    is that the reason? how long does that take?

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    Posted September 4th, 2011 15:00

    Block size is too small, could that be the issue ?

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    Posted September 4th, 2011 15:00

    when i go to increase size in vsphere. I am not even seeing the additional space from the metalun. but it does show up as an extent

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    Posted September 4th, 2011 16:00

    ahh..you did striped meta. It depends what the priority is and how busy RG/SP is.

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    Posted September 4th, 2011 16:00

    take a look at this paper

    EMC CLARiiON MetaLUNs - Concepts, Operations, and Management

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    Posted September 4th, 2011 16:00

    what is the difference btw concat and stripe? metalun  is not samme as extents right? anything cons about metalun for vmware?