XenServer 6.5 Troubleshoot HBA SR Disk Space
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@anthonyh said in XenServer 6.5 Troubleshoot HBA SR Disk Space:
So, you have 16 XS hosts connected to a network storage array?
Well, I have 16 hosts connected to a 3PAR FibreChannel SAN. So more-or-less yes.
Ah okay, thank goodness it's a 3PAR. I was very afraid that we were going to hear something like MSA, MD or Equalogic.
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I have to say it's been a decent setup for what it is. I would prefer a vSAN setup of some sort utilizing local storage on the hosts, but it does the job for now.
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@anthonyh said in XenServer 6.5 Troubleshoot HBA SR Disk Space:
I have to say it's been a decent setup for what it is. I would prefer a vSAN setup of some sort utilizing local storage on the hosts, but it does the job for now.
At sixteen hosts that's not trivial. You could do something like a Scale HC3 at that size, but most solutions are not meant to scale up like that. Around the dozen server mark (more or less) a good SAN solution starts to be a pretty obvious choice just because it is so cost effective to consolidate to that degree. 3PAR is one of the three best names in the SAN game, IMHO, and I'd likely stick with that unless you are really looking to redesign heavily. Now, two 3PARs that are synced, yeah, that would be the way to go. But, budgets.
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@scottalanmiller said in XenServer 6.5 Troubleshoot HBA SR Disk Space:
@anthonyh said in XenServer 6.5 Troubleshoot HBA SR Disk Space:
I have to say it's been a decent setup for what it is. I would prefer a vSAN setup of some sort utilizing local storage on the hosts, but it does the job for now.
At sixteen hosts that's not trivial. You could do something like a Scale HC3 at that size, but most solutions are not meant to scale up like that. Around the dozen server mark (more or less) a good SAN solution starts to be a pretty obvious choice just because it is so cost effective to consolidate to that degree. 3PAR is one of the three best names in the SAN game, IMHO, and I'd likely stick with that unless you are really looking to redesign heavily. Now, two 3PARs that are synced, yeah, that would be the way to go. But, budgets.
Good to know it's not a completely crazy setup.
I really have no complaints about the 3PAR setup we have. Support is good. I have an InformOS upgrade scheduled for Thursday. The upgrade will give us data deduplication which I'm excited to try.
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HPE 3PAR is one of the big boys. That's basically HPE Integrity technology under the hood. Way better reliability than a Proliant which is pretty rocking as it is. Between the high end hardware and high end support it's a pretty darn reliably bit of kit. Right up there with the high end EMC and HDS stuff. Of course, having only one unit, there is no escaping the SPOF fears, but that SPOF is really reliable.
With sixteen hosts connected to it, the value is in the cost savings primarily. It's a cost effective strategy for standard to slightly high reliability. I wouldn't call it HA quite, it doesn't likely make it quite that far but it is more reliable than a single Proliant server setup almost certainly, but not as reliable as a single Integrity server. It's all on a scale.
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So, are you saying I shouldn't migrate to a Netgear NAS?
All joking aside, it sounds like the consensus thus far is a reboot? I can cycle the hosts one by one...I suppose it's worth a try...
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Sounds reasonable.
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I'll start by rebooting the host the VM is running on and see if I get lucky...
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How many hosts have that particular LUN mounted? If it's only one, that should be the only host that needs to be rebooted.
You did mention this was a 2 TB LUN, right?
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@Dashrender Yes, 2 TB LUN. All 16 hosts are attached to said LUN.
Hey, perhaps I can detatch/reattach the LUN? Shut down the VM first, of course.
Thoughts?? Would this trigger cleanup?
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I have absolutely no experience at this... Good luck!
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Welp, rebooting the host that the VM resided on did not clear up any disk space. Hmmm...
