robert_williams's Posts

Rolled back two of my hosts this morning. Might have to do the other 8, crap.
We had Nutanix with Dell hardware based license and they move to subscription based model and it is very expensive now. We have the older hosts running esxi and was wondering of going with vsan. Not ... See more...
We had Nutanix with Dell hardware based license and they move to subscription based model and it is very expensive now. We have the older hosts running esxi and was wondering of going with vsan. Not sure how Nutanix will survive. https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/09/02/if-hyperconverged-storage-is-so-good-why-is-it-not-pervasive-and-profitable/
This works for the log files to go to Syslog.global.logDir but the ScratchConfig is still points to /scratch. Had this issue with a Lenovo and well as Dell custom iso.
We are converting some of our VMware hosts to Microsoft hyper-V 2016 cluster. This is one reason why, they don't care about their customers. It is sad that their support people say don't use the ... See more...
We are converting some of our VMware hosts to Microsoft hyper-V 2016 cluster. This is one reason why, they don't care about their customers. It is sad that their support people say don't use the web because it is too slow. how many hours of my life have been wasted waiting for the damn circle spinning around on the web client.
I totally agree on this. I have been using Vsphere since 2005. VMware has made a few mistakes along the way. Changed licensing model where they limited how much ram you could run on a Host. Th... See more...
I totally agree on this. I have been using Vsphere since 2005. VMware has made a few mistakes along the way. Changed licensing model where they limited how much ram you could run on a Host. They admitted their mistakes. This made a university give up on VMware and went Hyper-V. SSO in the beginning was a pain. Web client still sucks. I still hold on the the c# client.
I was having the same problems with esxi 4.0 tried vicfg-iscsi -server servername -I -a aliasname vmhba and this failed until I tried vicfg-iscsi -server servername -I --alias aliasname vmh... See more...
I was having the same problems with esxi 4.0 tried vicfg-iscsi -server servername -I -a aliasname vmhba and this failed until I tried vicfg-iscsi -server servername -I --alias aliasname vmhba and that worked even though the docs have -a and --alias the same.
I have tested vbcMounter on a another esx server and it worked fine. Ran it on our cluster from the virtual center and it fails to make a snapshot, and the vcenter disconnects from the esxhost f... See more...
I have tested vbcMounter on a another esx server and it worked fine. Ran it on our cluster from the virtual center and it fails to make a snapshot, and the vcenter disconnects from the esxhost for a while. Then it cleans up the snapshot database. We are using iSCSI storage with one path to the lun for the VM. We have multi-pathing for the ESX hosts. Why would it disconnect. There should be not too much traffic on the service console it had created the vmx, nvram and log files and was starting to create a vmdk. When it could not renew the disk lease.
Thin provisoning has issues. I have a Equallogic with thin provisioning enabled but the Equallogic space being used is a lot more than what ESX reports back in vcentre of du -h. The volume... See more...
Thin provisoning has issues. I have a Equallogic with thin provisioning enabled but the Equallogic space being used is a lot more than what ESX reports back in vcentre of du -h. The volume on the Equallogic keeps growing until it goes past its warnings. This is from the Equallogic support mentions. A thin-provisioned volume grows automatically due to application data writes. If later the application frees up space, the space is free in the file system but is not returned to the free space in the PS Series pool. The only way to reduce the physical allocation is to create a new volume, copy the application data from the old volume to the new, and then delete the old volume. When the volume goes to 100% it will go offline. The vmfs file system will not use the free space so once it is written to you can say goodbye to the space. This feature is hyped as a good idea by Equallogic but VMWare warns of these issues. Equallogics solution is The only way to reduce the physical allocation in the SAN is to create a new volume, copy the application data from the old volume to the new, and then delete the old volume. This is not a solution!!!!!!