Jeremy G.'s questions

On one ESX, I have one VM with storage issues on a vmdk. So bad that the VM wouldn't start.

I had this error message :

2020-12-03T11:51:41.397Z| vmx| I125: [msg.hbacommon.outofspace] There is no more space for virtual disk 'setisrra-000001.vmdk'. You might be able to continue this session by freeing disk space on the relevant volume, and clicking _Retry. Click Cancel to terminate this session.

The size of the Datastore-Analytics is around 1,7 TB. The size of the Datastore1 is around 500 GB.

So I thought I would move the "setissra-000001.vmdk" which was taking up space from one Datastore to another.

I shut down my VM, made a snapshot (the second one since its creation). And I moved the "setissra-000001.vmdk" (note : "copy" wouldn't work).

The move was made, but now "setissra-000001.vmdk" is 80GB instead of 15,9 for some reason. And now I can't power on the VM it says : "unable to enumerate all disks".

I don't know what to do? I'd like to avoid full reinstallation.

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Is it possible to not use any kind of RAID Controller on a Cisco UCS, if I want to use just one HDD without RAID features ? Or do I have to still have the RAID hardware controller to create my disk as a JBOD ?

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On a Cisco UCS C220-M4 I have 3 450GB disks and I want to create a RAID5 with those.

My RAID controller is Cisco 12G SAS Modular Raid Controller.

On the CIMC page for the server though, I only have the option to create RAID1, RAID0, or RAID10. Nowhere can I create a RAID5 virtual drive.

Is this normal? Is it a limitation of my RAID controller?

Thanks