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Having this same problem and hoping for a little help, please. Company is rolling out vSphere 6.5 in January, and have built out a home lab. Successfully have VCSA, two Hosts in a cluster, and... See more...
Having this same problem and hoping for a little help, please. Company is rolling out vSphere 6.5 in January, and have built out a home lab. Successfully have VCSA, two Hosts in a cluster, and a VM running Ubuntu. vMotion, HA, DRS are all enabled, have a shared iSCSI storage (OpenFiler) but when attempting to migrate the VM between Hosts the selection displays ONLY the Host being migrated from? Being a relative Newb to networking--can someone please point me to what is missing?
Once a Maintenance Schedule has been created.. the docs say next step is to " Assign the maintenance schedule to objects." --- but never tells how to do so. Anyone able to direct me in assi... See more...
Once a Maintenance Schedule has been created.. the docs say next step is to " Assign the maintenance schedule to objects." --- but never tells how to do so. Anyone able to direct me in assigning a Maintenance Schedule?
The gist of the latest replies seems to be "Best way: Build your own custom workflow, then you absolutely will control what it does". Suppose if we were intending to manage a large portion of... See more...
The gist of the latest replies seems to be "Best way: Build your own custom workflow, then you absolutely will control what it does". Suppose if we were intending to manage a large portion of our 8000 VM's with vCO then investing in serious vCO training would make sense. But right now it just seems easier to use PowerCLI than to invest so much effort learning a new language like vCO JavaScripting to build a single workflow..? Or... am I seeing this wrong.. can a PowerCLI script be written and then run via vCO .. is that an option? Curious,      - John M.
So, the answer to the question of can Orchestrator clean up orphaned VMDK files is clearly... no. vCO has the workflow to do this job but no one uses it ... or no one knows how to control it ... See more...
So, the answer to the question of can Orchestrator clean up orphaned VMDK files is clearly... no. vCO has the workflow to do this job but no one uses it ... or no one knows how to control it to be safely used... and since we already use PowerCLI to locate these files and 'manually' delete them.. back to PowerCLI methods we go. Too bad... seemed like a good idea at the time.  Thank you everyone for clarifying this question,      - John M.
Christophe,                      Ok, so I am working my way through the book which does indeed help (Chapter 7, Smoothies Inc. .. but have a question... When looking at the Workflow you ... See more...
Christophe,                      Ok, so I am working my way through the book which does indeed help (Chapter 7, Smoothies Inc. .. but have a question... When looking at the Workflow you mentioned "Delete all unused datastore Files" ... how can I find which files or file types it will delete? We just want certain VMDK files... Trying to understand it before I pull the trigger to be sure ONLY the file types we want are removed..? Maybe in over my head or getting ahaed of myself but this is the most outstanding question in my mind right now... thank you ! Best regards, - John M.
Christophe,                     Your book looks like a great resource so I have ordered it.. hopefully it will enable a Noobie like me to figure this usage out. Will let you know. Thank you ... See more...
Christophe,                     Your book looks like a great resource so I have ordered it.. hopefully it will enable a Noobie like me to figure this usage out. Will let you know. Thank you for all your help. Regards,  - John M.
Thinking this through again.. the better question is .. can this Workflow perform clean up of these orphaned VMDK files..? Can we use Orchestrator to help clean up or recover our LUN space..? ... See more...
Thinking this through again.. the better question is .. can this Workflow perform clean up of these orphaned VMDK files..? Can we use Orchestrator to help clean up or recover our LUN space..? Thank you,   - John M.
Chris,             Pardon my ignorance as I am very new to Orchestrator...  but is this workflow and its process explaned in a specific VMware document.. if so, could you tell me its name so I c... See more...
Chris,             Pardon my ignorance as I am very new to Orchestrator...  but is this workflow and its process explaned in a specific VMware document.. if so, could you tell me its name so I can start my learning curve..? Apprecite your help very much,     - John M.
Luc,            Within our large environment we lose LUN space to what we call 'Phantom Disks' .. where a team removes a virtual machine but the VMDK files are left behind. Is there a way ... See more...
Luc,            Within our large environment we lose LUN space to what we call 'Phantom Disks' .. where a team removes a virtual machine but the VMDK files are left behind. Is there a way to alter this script to deal with these VMDK 'phantoms'..? Hoping,   - John M.
We run a very large VMware environment and have a large number of orphaned or Phantom VMDK files... ones that are left over after another team deletes a virtual machine... Have heard that Orc... See more...
We run a very large VMware environment and have a large number of orphaned or Phantom VMDK files... ones that are left over after another team deletes a virtual machine... Have heard that Orchestrator has a way to deal with cleaning these 'Phantom' files up .. can anyone confirm this or direct me to a doc. for usage examples? Thank you,             - John Middleton
Well slap my face.. low & behold this has already been addressed by the brilliant Mr. LucD ... http://www.lucd.info/2010/10/17/runtime-name-via-extensiondata-and-new-viproperty/ One of the... See more...
Well slap my face.. low & behold this has already been addressed by the brilliant Mr. LucD ... http://www.lucd.info/2010/10/17/runtime-name-via-extensiondata-and-new-viproperty/ One of the demos we did in our VMworld 2010 US and Europe sessions, showed the use of the new Extensiondata property and of the new New-VIProperty cmdlet. Both features were introduced with PowerCLI 4.1. In my PowerCLI 4.1 brings the New-VIProperty cmdlet post I already showed the interesting possibilities this new cmdlet offers. On my return from VMworld Europe there was a new thread in the PowerCLI Community that asked how one could get at the Runtime Name property as it is shown in the vSphere Client. The Get-ScsiLun and Get-ScsiLunPath cmdlets unfortunately do not return that property. So I guessed it was time to show once more the strength of the New-VIProperty cmdlet Now I just need a little help figuring how to actually use this new found power command.. - Nicodemus
FWIW.. found an answer at: http://www.lucd.info/2010/10/17/runtime-name-via-extensiondata-and-new-viproperty/ "One of the demos we did in our VMworld 2010 US and Europe sessions, showed the... See more...
FWIW.. found an answer at: http://www.lucd.info/2010/10/17/runtime-name-via-extensiondata-and-new-viproperty/ "One of the demos we did in our VMworld 2010 US and Europe sessions, showed the use of the new Extensiondata property and of the new New-VIProperty cmdlet. Both features were introduced with PowerCLI 4.1. In my PowerCLI 4.1 brings the New-VIProperty cmdlet post I already showed the interesting possibilities this new cmdlet offers. On my return from VMworld Europe there was a new thread in the PowerCLI Community that asked how one could get at the Runtime Name property as it is shown in the vSphere Client. The Get-ScsiLun and Get-ScsiLunPath cmdlets unfortunately do not return that property. So I guessed it was time to show once more the strength of the New-VIProperty cmdlet" Although I am still not sure how to use it yet... - Nicodemus
Coming late to this party but... When I run this script it returns the " naa. " CanonicalName results: naa.60060e8005c003000000c00300004300 ... See more...
Coming late to this party but... When I run this script it returns the " naa. " CanonicalName results: naa.60060e8005c003000000c00300004300 RoundRobin naa.60060e8005c003000000c00300004301 RoundRobin naa.60060e8005c003000000c00300004302 RoundRobin naa.60060e8005c003000000c00300004303 Fixed naa.60060e8005c003000000c00300004304 Fixed But what I am after ( I think ) is to know if my multi-pathing is working or configured correctly ( after SAN team maintanence ) and would like to see results more like 'Runtime Name': vmhba1:C0:T0:Lx vmhba1:C0:T1:Lx vmhba2:C0:T0:Lx vmhba2:C0:T1:lX How can I change this script to return the vmhba type results..? Appreciate any help, - Nicodemus P.S. Assuming I am correct in thinking that multipathing is verified via the difference in HBA & tunnel numbers ( 0 & 1 ) ?
Coming late to this party but... When I run this script it returns the " naa. " CanonicalName results: naa.60060e8005c003000000c00300004300 ... See more...
Coming late to this party but... When I run this script it returns the " naa. " CanonicalName results: naa.60060e8005c003000000c00300004300 RoundRobin naa.60060e8005c003000000c00300004301 RoundRobin naa.60060e8005c003000000c00300004302 RoundRobin naa.60060e8005c003000000c00300004303 Fixed naa.60060e8005c003000000c00300004304 Fixed But what I am after ( I think ) is to know if my multi-pathing is working or configured correctly ( after SAN team maintanence ) and would like to see results more like the 'Runtime Name: vmhba1:C0:T0:Lx vmhba1:C0:T1:Lx vmhba2:C0:T0:Lx vmhba2:C0:T1:lX How can I change this script to specific HBAs 1 & 2 (my Fibre channels) and to return the vmhba type results..? Appreciate any help, - Nicodemus
So far so good.. that command works pretty well... but one thing I noticed was that it does not report the key HBA's needed, i.e., LP10000 2GB Fibre HBA. -- Only came back with the vmhba3 =NVidia... See more...
So far so good.. that command works pretty well... but one thing I noticed was that it does not report the key HBA's needed, i.e., LP10000 2GB Fibre HBA. -- Only came back with the vmhba3 =NVidia NForce and vmhba0 = Smart Array P400 The result showed: vsmelab6.uhclab.lab mpx.vmhba3:C0:T0:L0 vsmelab6.uhclab.lab naa.60060e8005c003000000c0030000470e vsmelab6.uhclab.lab naa.60060e8005c003000000c0030000470f vsmelab6.uhclab.lab naa.60060e8005c003000000c00300004710 vsmelab6.uhclab.lab naa.60060e8005c003000000c00300004b00 vsmelab6.uhclab.lab naa.60060e8005c003000000c00300004711 vsmelab6.uhclab.lab naa.60060e8005c003000000c00300004b01 vsmelab6.uhclab.lab naa.60060e8005c003000000c00300004b02 vsmelab6.uhclab.lab naa.60060e8005c003000000c00300004712 vsmelab6.uhclab.lab mpx.vmhba0:C0:T0:L0 vsmelab6.uhclab.lab naa.60060e8006cfb4000000cfb400008100 vsmelab6.uhclab.lab naa.60060e8005c003000000c00300004300 So is there a way to specify which HBAs are collected or at least to insure they are all reported..? Like vmhba 1 and 2 ? Thank you very much for your help... the depths and fine points on PowerCLI are yet beyond my grasp.. but learning fast. - Nicodemus
Just to be clear.. do you mean that running the 'MultipathPolicy property' will display the policy or the actual results..? I can imagine where the policy says it is to be dual or multi-pathed... See more...
Just to be clear.. do you mean that running the 'MultipathPolicy property' will display the policy or the actual results..? I can imagine where the policy says it is to be dual or multi-pathed .. but one path is not present so in reality it is not multi-pathed.. ? Hope that makes sense.. - Nicodemus
Trying to understand how to create a script to check multipathing in our vSphere 4 environment... can anyone point me to the right command structure to do such a task? Thanks, - Nicodemus
AWo, Please see newly attached screen caps... if I am clear now the first has Multi-pathing functional (two targets shown)... and the second cap does not (single target shown) ...... See more...
AWo, Please see newly attached screen caps... if I am clear now the first has Multi-pathing functional (two targets shown)... and the second cap does not (single target shown) ...? Appreciate it, - Nicodemus
Question: how can SAN multipathing be verified when looking at the Storage tab in vCenter..? Was wondering if you might help confirm how SAN multipathing is checked on the ESX Hosts..? We rece... See more...
Question: how can SAN multipathing be verified when looking at the Storage tab in vCenter..? Was wondering if you might help confirm how SAN multipathing is checked on the ESX Hosts..? We received a request to check multipathing on two Hosts ... and I am not clear on what verifies MULTIPATHING when looking at the Runtime names ( see screen caps below) ? First screen cap has only a single tunnel showing (0) ... while other screen cap has two tunnels ( 0 & 1 ) which I am taking to indicate multipathing... is this a correct understanding..? Little help.. please, - Nicodemus
Excellent.. that is just what I need to know.. appreciate it very much. - Nicodemus