Yes, the issues we're seeing are that some machines lock up when undergoing SMVI backups (and not the normal bug that affects removing snapshots from VMs on NFS storage).
The latest theory is that the fixes in the latest version of VMWare tools sorts it out. VMware don't have a firm idea of what's causing it in our environment, but we've seen numerous bugs based on the locking mechanism (which is different in NFS to iSCSI or FC).
Darren.
-----Original Message----- From: Nick Silkey [mailto:silkey@ece.utexas.edu] Sent: 06 March 2009 15:31 To: Darren Sykes Cc: steve klise; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: vmware ESX and volumes/aggrs
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Darren Sykes wrote:
Having said all that, I think SMVI generally works better with non-NFS stores; we're still having occasional issues due to NFS related
issues.
Darren --
Can you elaborate on those issues for those of us eyeing both NFS for datastores and SMVI for snap management/operations?
Thanks.
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