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  • 1.  vSphere with IBM V7000 compression

    Posted Jul 22, 2016 08:24 AM

    Hello,

    we have installed new IBM Storwize V7000 Gen2. One of the features that we turned on is real-time compression. Everything works as it should but there is a problem where compression gains aren't reflected in datastores used/free information. vSphere reports information without compression gain and therefore we can't use the space that we actually have still at our disposal. Anyone had anything similar? Any thoughts on how to overcome this?

    Kind regards,

    Simon



  • 2.  RE: vSphere with IBM V7000 compression

    Posted Jul 24, 2016 11:38 PM

    Unless I'm missing something vSphere ESXi will not be aware that IBM V7000 volumes are compressed, so nothing different will be shown on vSphere interface. Something that can be done is install the IBM Storage Provider for VASA that will offer the storage capability for the VMware, see a guide: http://lab.piszki.pl/configure-vmware-vasa-for-ibm-storwize-v7000-and-others/