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Hi, We are currently using Mellanox NICs which support RDMA
Can we run all the normal VMware services (vMotion, Management, etc) on these NICs? I ask because in https://support.purestorage.com/?title=Solutions/VMware_Platform_Guide/How-To%27s_for_VMware_Solutions/NVMe_over_Fabrics/How_To:_Setup_NVMe-RDMA_with_VMware|this KB it says these NICs should not be used. The KB states configuring an RNIC with multiple services is not recommended by VMware. Is there a source?
joseph_davila
8 days ago Place Virtualization/VDI
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Accelerate Teaser - VMware -> OpenStack
Big changes are afoot in the Virtualization world with the introduction of Broadcom's new licensing model for VMware. People are looking at how to move from VMware to another visrtualization platform. At Accelerate in Las Vegas, 2025, we will be showcasing a new feature in OpenStack that will allow you to seamlessly migrate VMware guests that currently exist on a Pure Storage FlashArray, either in a datastore or as a vVol, directly into OpenStack. Using a simple process, sometimes only requiring one step, your VMware guests can be made availble in your OpenStack cluster. As part of this Accelerate FlashTalk we will demonstrate this process using manual, GUI-based methods, and also using full automation with Ansible. If you are interested in this, make sure you register for Accelerate in Las Vegas, June 17-19.
simon
8 days ago Place Virtualization/VDI
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We’re headed to VMUG Connect 2025 in St. Louis!
Pure Storage is excited to be exhibiting at VMUG Connect 2025! 📍 Booth #108 | 📆 April 23–25 | 📌 Hilton at the Ballpark Don’t miss David Stevens’ session: 📆 April 24 at 3:30 PM – “Elevating VMware Cloud Foundation with Pure Storage FlashArray” We look forward to connecting with you! #myVMUG #VMUGConnect Event Registration: Use the code CONNECT10 for 10% off registration fees.
ethornhill
13 days ago Place Virtualization/VDI
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Hello! We are using vvols for a specific project and noticed that vCenter shows capacity incorrectly.
It looks like (provisioned space = capacity - free space + uncommitted). We started out with a 1PB datastore and only 200TB of data, but vCenter showed the datastore full. We doubled the size of the datastore and vCenter immediately doubled the used space. Most of the unknown usage shows up as “other” in vCenter. Pure shows the correct usage. We have tickets open with both vendors. VMware is pointing the finger at Pure and Pure at VMware. We really don’t care where the problem lies…just want it fixed. Has anyone else experienced this issue before? Do you have any tips on resolving it?
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robert_hendrick
22 days ago Place Virtualization/VDI
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We have 3 arrays at this datacenter in which we run VM's leveraging vVols
In all 3 upgrades we saw VM's that reported 200-85k ms worth of latency while the controllers were being upgraded/rebooted. From a reporting aspect within Pure1 we see the majority of latency at the VM level and not at the array level. At the array level we see Latency hitting 3-14 ms. As we have seen this across multiple systems it feels like it's either an issue with Purity or vCenter/VASA configuration. A few things that we have looked at/checked: • We have checked/confirmed that vCenter is running on a different cluster/storage platform • We have checked/confirmed that all VM's do not have any QOS enabled via SPBMs • We do see that the Storage Provider versions are reporting different between the arrays controllers. However, it's our understanding that the reported version within vCenter does not update and only reports at the time the provider is registered. • Reported Provider Versions: 1.1.1 to 2.0.0 • vCenter version: 7.0.3.01200 • Purity Upgrade: 6.3.8 to 6.3.13 Due to the lengthy pause the VM's are seeing it kind of feels like they are not failing/rolling over to the secondary controller/provider. Our next set of array upgrades are the week of Sept 11th so we have about 2 weeks to figure out what's happening. If anybody has any suggestions or things to try we are open to all suggestions.
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Scott_Griffin
22 days ago Place Virtualization/VDI
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Has anyone done VMware + ActiveCluster + WSFC?
Anything do watch out for?
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adarobin
22 days ago Place Virtualization/VDI
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The language in the VMware Best Practices guide around `MaxHWTransferSize` is confusing
It says, "Pure Storage recommends leaving this at the default value, but does support increasing the value if another vendor requires it to be", but then it ends with "For this reason, Pure Storage recommends setting the transfer size to the maximum value of 16 MB."
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adarobin
22 days ago Place Virtualization/VDI
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Migrating my VMware Microsoft SQL VM clusters to use vVols
Good day everyone. Since migrating my VMware Microsoft SQL VM clusters to use vVols, I am finding it extremely difficult to map a Windows drive to the VM hard disk number, and then to the Pure vVol. I have Powershell scripts that perform that function with RDMs but they don't work with vVols apparently. I have been searching Github and other areas with no luck. VMware 8 hosting Windows Server 2022 failover cluster VMs with attached vVols. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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bmorris
22 days ago Place Virtualization/VDI
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VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 23307199 Customer asked to move a VM from non-replicated to a replicated LUN (synchronised replication)
Storage team supplied me with a new LUN and made sure it was on the same array so Storage VMotion would use VAAI and be quick. But it wasn’t While waiting and noticing the Storage VMotion was much slower than expected, I checked on the host if VAAI was working and noticed: `esxcli storage core device vaai status get |grep naa.624a937097ffbb24a2f6483c02ea169b -A 5` `naa.624a937097ffbb24a2f6483c02ea169b` `VAAI Plugin Name:` `ATS Status: supported` `Clone Status: unsupported` `Zero Status: supported` `Delete Status: supported` Moving the 3TB VM took 2 hours in total. Because it was late at night I didn’t investigate further but this morning I wanted to dive into it and noticed: `esxcli storage core device vaai status get -d=naa.624a937097ffbb24a2f6483c02ea169b` `naa.624a937097ffbb24a2f6483c02ea169b` `VAAI Plugin Name:` `ATS Status: supported` `Clone Status: supported` `Zero Status: supported` `Delete Status: supported` How come the clone status is now ‘supported’?
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thegabeman
22 days ago Place Virtualization/VDI
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error while attempting to register an array
Before I open a case, has anyone seen this error while attempting to register an array in the VMware plugin? "Error while creating FlashArray record [object Object]" Adding a single array not importing via Pure1. Plugin version 5.3.9, VCenter version 8 u2c
bmorris
22 days ago Place Virtualization/VDI
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