ESXi 4.1.0 issues

[Isley6628]

So I have been a tech at a school system for a few months now and after the recent holiday break I get back and the person of the food service is saying they cannot reach their server. So I get into vSphere and notice that it is saying one of the datastores is inaccessible. So I contact my supervisor and we agree lets physically power cycle the device. I do this and when it finishes powering back on it says the food server and another one are unknown(inaccessible) and the data store that was showing as inaccessible is no longer showing up and it seems it is showing 2 smaller data stores that I don't believe were listed before.

[daphnissov]

I hope you have a backup that you can restore to a vSphere or standalone ESXi server that is not ancient or unsupported by VMware. Without knowing more about the configuration of the underlying storage it's impossible to give guidance, but it sounds like based on the turn of events that some hardware has died. Good time to migrate off such an old version.

[Isley6628]

Thanks for replying, i honestly believe the harddrive has failed and wish it was my call to upgrade it. We told the lady that handles the food service stuff months ago she needed to upgrade and she said months ago that she was. In fact my supervisor thought she had. My supervisor just said to tell her that her harddrive crashed and that she shouldn't  procrastinated getting an upgrade.

[daphnissov]

It's not like 4.1 has been under support any time in recent memory, and it's also not like those running 4.1 still believe it to be supported. That's not a helpful comment, but may be to management that highlights the necessity to stay within a supported posture if running business-critical workloads (although I don't know how critical a food service VM is in this instance).