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Setting SCSI Timeout Values for FreeBSD VMs on VMware/NetApp

23-Jun-10

NetApp requires setting a timeout value of 190 seconds for all VMware data stores on their filers to handle “long fabric or storage-side I/O interruptions”; this is done as follows on FreeBSD: This can be set permanently in /etc/sysctl.conf: Elsewhere, I have seen a recommendation for FreeBSD on ESX that kern.cam.da.retry_count be set to 120.

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Bookmarks for July 10, 2009

13-Jul-09

Links for July 10, 2009: Charles Curley – Software Engineer, Writer – NFS and Firewalls on Fedora Core – Notes on securing an NFS server behind an iptables firewall. Written for Fedora, likely applies to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its clones.

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