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  • How to retrieve or set Path Selection Policy by vCLI

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    First of all, this article is nothing related to PowerCLI. 🙂 You probably know how to set Path Selection Policy (PSP) by vSphere Client, but how you can setup 100 LUNs manually? We have some script can make your life easy. How to retrieve LUN Path Selection Policy: esxcli storage nmp device list | egrep…

  • How to retrieve RDM information by PowerCLI

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    I worked on move RDM LUNs of Microsoft Cluster virtual machine from one iGroup to another. To make sure the moving safe, we should record RDM LUN information before migration. We had two VMs with almost 20 RDM LUNs, it’s pretty time consume to get the information manually, I used following script to retrieve information: $RMDinfo =…

  • Unknown status of Hardware Acceleration

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    When I read VMware documents, there is a cool feature Hardware Acceleration I found in storage book. That recall me an outage about one year ago, our NetApp filer was crashed due to motherboard problem, part of datastores was failed, we have to move virtual machine from the filer to other. We noticed the storage…

  • Unable to find new lun when you try to extend vmfs datastore

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    You probably see this rare problem: your storage team allocate new lun to esxi 5.0 host, lun is visible in add new storage screen, but invisible in extend datastore  screen. Add new storage screen: Increase datastore capacity:   That’s because the datastore, lun is connected to multiple esxi / esx host which have different version, please be…