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ReadyNAS Balance and ESXI hosts
Model ReadyNAS 4312 (did not have that in Model selection, when creating this discussin). Firmware 6.7.5 *My "setup" ESXi 6.0 EMC SAN for Production Servers (10GB Base-T) Readynas 4312 is use...
Just an update, since I really dont like when people dont update a discussion.
On firmeware 6.8.0, and have had a Balance and defrag without issues. (so it seems Netgear has fixed the issue IMO)
Well I did 2 balancing within a week, the second was really only a test to see if the "issue" would happen again, and it did.
I first did a balance by suggestion from Netgear support.
I will do some testing and disable NIC's on my next balance, I will post updates.
Metadata allocation is a bit high. Are you using bit rot protection, compression, etc?
You should disable the quotas on the volume (if you don't have any quotas on the shares).
If you're running databases, maybe you need a faster volume, like RAID10.
That said, I still don't see the connection between the balance and your ESXi hosts.
I will try your suggestions in regards to the quotas and will look at RAID 10.
I will say, if you want to have a webex session, I can show the issue live.
Well My Scheduled Defrag (Aug 10th) and Balance (Aug 16th) happened.
Datasore Read Latency issues, Host disk SCSI aborts, the ESXi Hosts "not responding" in vCenter.
I restart the NAS...everything is corrected.
One thing i noticed, all the alerts from NAS came in at once...even from a week ago. Defragmentation started, Defragmentation Complete, Balance Started, Balance Complete, and even the "system is rebooting" message. All alerts came together, right after the NAS has been restarted. I see a new update (6.8.0) came out, maybe this will fix my "werid" issue.
Just an update, since I really dont like when people dont update a discussion.
On firmeware 6.8.0, and have had a Balance and defrag without issues. (so it seems Netgear has fixed the issue IMO)
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