Virtualizing Novell Netware 4.11

[vgshp]

I know this is not a supported OS for ESX Server, but with the help of some other posts here, I have been able to get a server up and running. However after about 2 weeks of running smoothly, the server started to report it was redirecting blocks. After a while of doing this the VM will abend. Upon rebooting the VM, it comes up and runs vrepair on the volumes. sometimes it will mount the volume, other times it will not and give errors.

Anyone ever run into this on a Novell VM in esx server?

Any help will be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!

HP

[grahampowelljr]

For those who are experiencing high CPU utilization - is the VM experiencing high utilization, as indicated on the Performance tab in VirtualCenter, or is NetWare reporting high utilization, through Monitor for example? It seems to be normal the NetWare thinks CPU utilization is high even when idle, but the virtual machine is actually not consuming that much processor time.

For those who are experiencing device deactivations due to SAN pathing issues, if you are running NW 4.11 SP9 then you should be able to use an updated SCSIHD.CDM as described here:

That device driver is not intended for NetWare 4.11 but in practice it seems to work (at least with ESX3.5).

Graham

[Joemamps]

Hello,

How about high memory utilization? I've been looking for a solution if there is a workaround for this or just like what you mentioned in high processor utilization during idle its perfectly ok.