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you mean the output of esxcli hardware clock get
Interesting thing is that if I set the hardware clock to the correct time the system time goes back an hour If I stop and start the ntp service the hardware clock changes to back it was ie an ho... See more...
Interesting thing is that if I set the hardware clock to the correct time the system time goes back an hour If I stop and start the ntp service the hardware clock changes to back it was ie an hour earlier
yes the first two options are correct but not sure what you mean by the third one I am assuming the hardware time yes
my laptop is correct when you see host in vcenter time is correct when you logon to host via ssh and type date the time is 1 hour earlier also host web client shows 1 hour earlier
Thanks Yes this is how we have set it up ntp is providing the time correctly to the esxi hosts but when we login to the host directly via the web client and ssh it is out by an hour but in vce... See more...
Thanks Yes this is how we have set it up ntp is providing the time correctly to the esxi hosts but when we login to the host directly via the web client and ssh it is out by an hour but in vcenter the time is displayed correctly
I wonder if somebody can help All of our Esxi servers are out by an hour as far as time is concerned The vsphere web client shows the correct time which is picked up by ntp servers and I have v... See more...
I wonder if somebody can help All of our Esxi servers are out by an hour as far as time is concerned The vsphere web client shows the correct time which is picked up by ntp servers and I have verified that the hosts are talking to ntp by running /etc/init.d/ntpd restart ntpq -p When I login to the console and type date the time is out by 1 hour they are showing 1 hour earlier Could this be due to the ntp servers not passing on the correct daylight savings All the servers are set to utc which I understand cannot be changed I am in the UK and all our hosts are in the same timezone Thanks in advance
I wonder if somebody can help I have recently been going through a list of our disk polices in vSan I have noticed a lot of objects listed under other with guid names Can anyone explain what... See more...
I wonder if somebody can help I have recently been going through a list of our disk polices in vSan I have noticed a lot of objects listed under other with guid names Can anyone explain what these are and if there is an effective way to remove them I have listed below an example of what I mean Name                                                                                                                                                                   vsan object health                                                                       Compliance status         8ac2065d-5a1e-cdd5-0f72-246e96d7d06e Healthy Out of Date 2e3e285d-8451-43cb-091b-246e96d7baea Healthy Out of Date 17baac5b-d870-84ca-e428-246e96d7d48c Healthy Out of Date 43c4065d-147c-3385-e2df-246e96d7d48c Healthy Out of Date c502d85b-a033-c892-dc88-246e96d7d008 Healthy Out of Date
We have a fairly large log insight deployment and I would like to add more disk I have 4 nodes in the cluster The question is do I just have to add space to the master node or do I add an equal... See more...
We have a fairly large log insight deployment and I would like to add more disk I have 4 nodes in the cluster The question is do I just have to add space to the master node or do I add an equal amount of space to all nodes in the cluster I understand that you have to add disks not increasing the size of existing disks Thanks in advance
1. My answer would be yes so I would change the must rule to servers in the preferred site 2. If you have two copies 1 in preferred and 1 in secondary and the VM is running in the preffered site... See more...
1. My answer would be yes so I would change the must rule to servers in the preferred site 2. If you have two copies 1 in preferred and 1 in secondary and the VM is running in the preffered site then reads will be from the replica closest to the hypervisor the vm is running on ie the same site. The previous sentence would only apply to a stretched cluster that is running normally so if there were outages then this might change So to have one copy it is always secondary =1 PFTT=0 and set the locality to preffered or secondary with the appropriate DRS must rule
Thanks Duncan For what its worth I set the policy below to achieve this which gives one copy at the preferred site. This would be useful for Oracle Rac or AD servers
Hi Thank you for your reply but I was talking about the vSAN storage affinity rule We have the drs rules in place but was wondering if we needed vsan storage affinity rules that are used in s... See more...
Hi Thank you for your reply but I was talking about the vSAN storage affinity rule We have the drs rules in place but was wondering if we needed vsan storage affinity rules that are used in stretched clusters to ensure that data is kept at either site
We have a vmdk file in a stretched all flash cluster. It only needs raid1 with protection in one site ie no geo redundancy required I have set PFTT=0 and SFTT =1 for this The question is do... See more...
We have a vmdk file in a stretched all flash cluster. It only needs raid1 with protection in one site ie no geo redundancy required I have set PFTT=0 and SFTT =1 for this The question is do I need to set  affinity storage policy rule as well considering we have put the VM in a DRS must rule and the assumption being that the vSAN algorithms will ensure data locality Thanks in advance
I am also having this issue I have raised a problem ticket with GSS
Hi Chaith For what it is worth I have tried the spreadsheet below which should help you to size your environment based on the amount of VMs you will be running and the disk policies you will b... See more...
Hi Chaith For what it is worth I have tried the spreadsheet below which should help you to size your environment based on the amount of VMs you will be running and the disk policies you will be using It is very comprehensive VSAN 6.5 and 6.6.1 resources calculator - It also takes vSAN workloads into account even though it says 6.6 it should work for 6.7
Thanks Bob That is what we seen but we have done some extensive tests on Ext4 and it does not seem to be very good at using blocks reclaimed from deletions it seems to prefer blocks that have ... See more...
Thanks Bob That is what we seen but we have done some extensive tests on Ext4 and it does not seem to be very good at using blocks reclaimed from deletions it seems to prefer blocks that have not been used Windows (later versions) does seem to better at doing this
Hi Wonder if somebody could help We have always used the disk policy sizing when placing VMs onto vSAN such as FT1 and Raid 5 which is 1.33 and FT1 and Raid 1 which is x2 What we would li... See more...
Hi Wonder if somebody could help We have always used the disk policy sizing when placing VMs onto vSAN such as FT1 and Raid 5 which is 1.33 and FT1 and Raid 1 which is x2 What we would like to do is plan for future growth but what we have noticed over time is that the provisioned size on the VM is different from the object size which we have managed to extract using a script kindly provided by William Lam We also realize that file deletions inside the VM do not reduce the object size and metadata overhead for vsan objects can increase the size. Can anyone explain the difference that we are seeing here
Hi We current have deployed vsan 6.5 patch 11925212 Everything seems to be working ok However when I look at cluster\monitor\vsan\virtual objects I can see one VM appearing as normal and t... See more...
Hi We current have deployed vsan 6.5 patch 11925212 Everything seems to be working ok However when I look at cluster\monitor\vsan\virtual objects I can see one VM appearing as normal and the other VMs appearing under a folder called normal We have a large number of VMs running on the cluster and when I check the disk polices I can see that they are all compliant I have included an example of what I am seeing below I would expect to see at least 100 VMs here but they are not appearing in the view as they should do The VMs concerned are all powered on and are not replicas
I wonder if somebody can help I am running the latest HCI Bench but when I try and run the validation it does not tell what the test has failed on so when I try and run the test it does not prog... See more...
I wonder if somebody can help I am running the latest HCI Bench but when I try and run the validation it does not tell what the test has failed on so when I try and run the test it does not progress I get the output below 1.6.8.7 2019-02-21 06:34:48 -0800: Validating VC IP and Crendetial... 2019-02-21 06:35:05 -0800: VC IP and Credential Validated 2019-02-21 06:35:05 -0800: Validating Datacenter ANALYTICS-BF... 0 ANALYTICS-BF 2019-02-21 06:35:23 -0800: Datacenter ANALYTICS-BF Validated 2019-02-21 06:35:23 -0800: Validating Cluster cluanbfpresk000... 0 cluanbfpresk000 1 Witness/witanbfpvnsk00.ukskwt.wt.bank.corp 2 Fault/hyvsmulpresk2171.ukskwt.wt.bank.corp 3 Fault/hyvsmulpresk2168.ukskwt.wt.bank.corp 2019-02-21 06:35:40 -0800: Cluster bank Validated 2019-02-21 06:35:57 -0800: Cluster bank has DRS mode: fullyAutomated Any help would be greatly appreciated