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I am not seeing that option in the config file for the VM. One thing Hyper-V had was Dynamic Memory. Greetings community members I am brand new to the Nutanix platform and have completed my basic initial configuration of my nodes on ESXi 5.5U2, however I am having trouble finding (not through lack of Google-fu) a complete guide on what Nutanix recommends as BPs for configuring hosts for ESXi.
I come from the world of Hyper-V, and I am switching over to VMware and learning the differences. HDD 50GB (is well enough for a template and when you roll our a machine from the template you can adjust it anyway).
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LSI SAS (although i read that on systems with full SSD the new NVMI controller might become the preferred controller (as it should use less resources), havent tested it myself though yet These are known 64-bit processors: All AMD Opteron processors. It also only supports LAHF and SAHF CPU instructions.
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Note: If the iSCSI software adapter on your host is not "vmhba64", you'll have to modify the commands above.My standard run-of-the-mill W2016 template uses:ĮFI (i havent found any drawbacks yet, and might be needed in the future, and swapping from bios to efi later on seems a no go)ġ-2 vCPU (1 is possible, but i prefer 2 for the snappyness when editing the template or bringing up-to-date). VMware ESXi 5.0 only installs and runs on servers with 64-bit x86 CPUs.
Vmkiscsi-tool -W -a delayed_ack=0 -j vmhba64Įsxcli system settings kernel set -s terminateVMonPDL -v TRUEĮsxcli system settings advanced set -o "/Disk/AutoremoveOnPDL" -i 1Īdvanced options HA Cluster setting (section 4.3) Software iSCSI login timeout (section 4.2.2)Įsxcli iscsi adapter param set -A=vmhba64 -k=LoginTimeout -v=5 Software iSCSI Queue Depth (section 4.2.2)Įsxcli system module parameters set -m iscsi_vmk -p iscsivmk_LunQDepth=255 SQL Server and VMware go together like peanut butter and. Twenty years ago VMware launched and forever changed the compute world. Published in August 2018, it spells out the best practices for running SQL Server on vSphere.
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Please note that the settings must be configured before presenting the first LUN to the ESXi host, and that the host needs to be rebooted for some of the settings to take effect.Ĭonditions for round robin path changes, all datastores on host (section 6.9.1.1)Įsxcli storage nmp satp rule add -s VMW_SATP_ALUA -V COMPELNT -P VMW_PSP_RR -o disable_action_OnRetryErrors -e "Dell EMC SC Series Claim Rule" -O "policy=iops iops=3" A couple of months ago, VMware released a new white paper called Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere. I have G9 and Gen10 servers, Operating System VMware ESXi Im interested in the BIOS settings. Revisions 2 Dell EMC SC Series: Best Practices with VMware vSphere 2060-M-BP-V Revisions Date Description July 2016 Initial release: Combined vSphere 5. But almost anybody who has lab is using IP addresses there. Hi Im looking for best practices settings. In production we all strictly recommend FQDN and typical answer is because VMware recommends it and it is Best Practice.
In addition to this I configured the following settings based on "Dell EMC SC Series Best Practices with VMware vSphere 2019-09.pdf" I know fully functional DNS and ESXi FQDN hostnames are VMware best practices and recommendations however the question is why it is recommended. Please remember that due to the different subnets per Fault Domain you must not configure explicit port binding, by adding the iSCSI VMkernel port groups to the iSCSI adapter's Port Binding configuration. The VUM can also be used with Linux based (VCSA), where the VUM must be installed on separate.
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While for ESXi managed by vCenter, the upgrade process is quite straight forward by using VUM (VMware Update Manager). I installed an SCv3020 a few weeks ago, and followed Dell's recommendation to use a separate vSwitch per iSCSI uplink. ESXi 5.1 standalone or ESXi 5.1 managed by vCenter can be upgraded to ESXi 5.5 after the last weeks GA release of vSphere 5.5.