We recently had an influx of several Oracle Exa* machines, and various testing has been taking place with these systems. While I won’t comment on OEL, and OVM, at least not yet, I did get a chance to play with a couple of compute nodes to see how well they would run ESXi. A...
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How to Identify ESXi Boot LUN
I recently posted about my misadventures into SAN array migrations and RDM’s here and here. Glad to say that part is at least completed. Now, it’s time to move off of the array all together, and get my boot LUNs from somewhere else. First thing’s first though, and I need to make sure I...
SvMotion with RDM with Windows Dynamic Disks
I recently had to move several virtual machines off a migrating array, and posted about my success with RDM’s to thick VMDK here. I also found that a few of the virtual machines I had to move included Windows dynamic disks, specifically, spanned volumes. Seeing as the largest volumes previously were 2 TB in...
SvMotion RDM to VMDK
We recently had need to evacuate one of our busy SAN arrays. For the most part, this was easy enough. Thanks to the storage vMotion (SvMotion) capability, it was easy enough to move the virtual machines without much difficulty using the normal migrate processes while the vm’s were up and running. The trouble comes...
When Disks Fail, Sort Of!
Another interesting one for folks. This is the first time I’ve seen this, as most of my storage comes off of my SAN. We started getting alerts for virtual machines, and after pulling up the vm console, noticed it was black. Tried to reset the vm, but the reset task just sat ‘In Progress’...
DC VMUG Jan 17th @ Nats park
Finally getting back into the swing of things with the new year. So, for my first post of 2012, a plug for the local VMware Users Group Meeting (DCVMUG). The event is @ Nationals Park on January 17th, 2012. Should be a good event, with presentations from Veeam and Tintri, and of course a...
View Event Database configuration error
I’ve been hunting this problem down for almost a week now, and was finally able to resolve the issue. Having spoken to others, not sure why we were affected by this, but I suppose that is life, and if nothing else, I got to dig into the weeds with the View Event DB configuration....
View desktops orphaned, disconnected, invalid, and console unreachable
Started troubleshooting a few issues with our View 4.6 environment and generally cleaning things up, and ran into an issue that I found rather annoying to fix. We started receiving provisioning issues from the connection brokers. Provisioning desktops would fail, desktops would fail to power on. And the ones that were on were not...
Oldie but a goodie, IRQ Sharing causing network slowness
I was reading through some posts on the VMTN forums today, and a poster ran into an issue where his network performance dropped significantly after upgrading to ESXi 5. Poster checked through the usual suspects: config changes, speed and duplex on host and switches. Even went through and turned off TCP Offloading on the...
VCP5 thoughts
After having gone through a few different trainings (Cisco/RHEV/Hyper-V/Oracle OVM), I finally got back to some good ‘ole VMware learning. Went through some docs, and decided to go after VCP5. Glad to say that I did pass, and that the new Version 5 exam is much better a “test” than version 4 was, at...
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