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Downgrade esxi 6. I did this on one host because I read that the GLR does not support esxi 6. When I downgrade to esxi 6. A new release of the firmware came out last week 26th March GLP however,again, its release notes only mention support for 6.

This is very odd. PS One other note, I recommend upgrading to the latest firmware. In vSphere 6. With esxi 6. I guess I should replace the n SAS disks it seems to be the older technology with e disks?

It looks like the SSDs are 4k disks using emulation technology. Starting in vSphere 6. There still could be a configuration issue though existing on the array which could either be causing the issue your experiencing, or combining with the 4k issue.

Is this unit being used in production? Can you redeploy the MSA, and re create all the pools and virtual disks, but configure everything first also using the MSA best practices for vSphere document , and then add it to the hosts? If the VMFS volume is formatted for , but then the array starts to present it as a different format, this could be causing the issues.

I had four spare SSD disks — they are all e. I added the volume to a 6. It mounted correctly. Great, all good. This meant that Pool B contained two disk groups — the disks in both Pools were all e. I rebooted the esxi 6. Normally at this stage when the esxi host comes back up the datastores on the virtual disk pool that was amended will no longer load. ESXi 6. For consistent and predictable performance, do not mix disks of different sector size types n, e.

Now, that quote is referring to disk groups containing n and e disks — which is something I never did, my disk groups only ever conatined n or e disks. The Pool B, that I created containing two disk groups which were all e disks, displayed a Sector Format size value of e. It seems that whatever has chaneged in esxi 6. Ensure you disk Sector Format size is all the same. I still think you can mix though if you wanted to. You just need to mix, configure, and get everything setup before presenting it to the ESXi host.

Typically a sector size change on a volume can lead to corruption, so this might be a safety mechanism. You could avoid this, by configuring everything first, and then presenting it to the ESXi host, then formatting, etc.

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