Broonie27's Posts

So you wouldn't do a VM level backup of a SQL server? You then need to rebuild the SQL server from scratch and then restore the databases?
If I exclude the SqlServerWriter VSS writer won't that stop ability to create a application consistent backups? If these network outages are expected behavior I'm interested to find out how ot... See more...
If I exclude the SqlServerWriter VSS writer won't that stop ability to create a application consistent backups? If these network outages are expected behavior I'm interested to find out how others backup their SQL servers as I'm concerned we are going about this the wrong way.
Yup, definitely using application consistent option.
The VM is a SQL server with several disks for logs, DB, tempDB etc . However the only disks being backed up by CommVault are for the OS (45GB) and one used for SQL backups (350GB). Most of the... See more...
The VM is a SQL server with several disks for logs, DB, tempDB etc . However the only disks being backed up by CommVault are for the OS (45GB) and one used for SQL backups (350GB). Most of the I/O would be reads and writes to the DB and logs which aren't being backed up and therefore not quiesced.
Hi there, I'm new to VMware so this might seem like a stupid question but when I back up our SQL servers hosted on vSphere 6.5 I am seeing a loss of network connectivity for the VM. The loss c... See more...
Hi there, I'm new to VMware so this might seem like a stupid question but when I back up our SQL servers hosted on vSphere 6.5 I am seeing a loss of network connectivity for the VM. The loss can be anywhere between 2 and 15 seconds. We use CommVault for our backups and I'm 99.9% sure that it is using the "quiesce" option when carrying out the pre-backup VSS snapshot. The SQL servers are in an AlwaysOn cluster so if there is any network disruption between nodes of +10 seconds a fail-over is invoked and that's not something I really want to be happening unless it's planned. I could increase the fail over threshold but I feel that is merely masking the issue. Further we are seeing application errors during the VSS snapshot period as it can no longer communicate with it's database. This can lead to long running batch jobs completely failing, again something I'd really like to avoid. So is what I'm seeing expected behavior and if so what is the recommendation for backing up SQL VMs in vSphere? Do we have to block all use of the DB/application during a backup window for example? If these drops aren't expected how can I stop them? Cheers C
Good grief what a complete idiot I've been. When I first mapped the volume i didn't scan for new hosts so I mapped to host 5 (thinking it was the right-most host). I have subsequently scanned for... See more...
Good grief what a complete idiot I've been. When I first mapped the volume i didn't scan for new hosts so I mapped to host 5 (thinking it was the right-most host). I have subsequently scanned for new hosts and host 6 has appeared in the list so I have mapped the volume to that and all is well. Apologies for wasting your time on what was a school-boy error on my part.
I've upgraded the firmware to 1.10.12 on the LSI controller but still no storage appearing.
Where do I find those views you pasted in SCM? Where do I set the LUN number? SCM? Blade ESXi host blade is in blade bay6 and is enabled.
PhillyDubs, 1. Here is the expansion card info: Slot      Description      Part Number      FRU Number      FRU Serial No.      Hardware Revision      Manuf. Date      UUID ... See more...
PhillyDubs, 1. Here is the expansion card info: Slot      Description      Part Number      FRU Number      FRU Serial No.      Hardware Revision      Manuf. Date      UUID      Manufacturer      Manuf. ID      Product ID     1    SAS Expansion Option   81Y8515   81Y8516   Y010UN2980DF   4   3612   623C E959 F8A2 11E1 BCF1 0013 D462 0A41   IBM (FOXC)   20301   181 2. Volumes are mapped the same I have successfully mapped volumes to the other Windows blades in the chassis. (see attachment) 3. I have one storage adapter listed (vmhba0) which is an LSI2004 but when I do a scan it shows nothing. The type is Block SCSI. 4. esxcli stoage vmfs snapshot list returns nothing.
zXi_Gamer, I have looked over the RSSM Host Systems attachment guide and most of the stuff in Chapter 4 seems to refer to the ESXi Host being installed on a Windows operating system but I am u... See more...
zXi_Gamer, I have looked over the RSSM Host Systems attachment guide and most of the stuff in Chapter 4 seems to refer to the ESXi Host being installed on a Windows operating system but I am using an embedded USB stick. 1. Not sure what the vmhbaX is. I'm new to VMware and the CLI. 2. I'm pretty sure the volume is initialized. There are other blades in the chassis running windows OS and they all see their respective volumes fine. 3. USB stick is an IBM specific build that is supposed to work on the chassis-S. The build is 5.0 (474610).
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Hi There, I have a HS23 blade with an embedded ESXi 5.0 USB stick and I am having problems adding storage in the vSphere Client. The BladeCenter chassis has redundant SAS RAID modules. Using t... See more...
Hi There, I have a HS23 blade with an embedded ESXi 5.0 USB stick and I am having problems adding storage in the vSphere Client. The BladeCenter chassis has redundant SAS RAID modules. Using the IBM tool Storage Configuration Manager I have created a RAID 5 storage pool along with a volume on that storage pool and assigned the volume to the HS23 blade. From previous reading I was expecting the new volume to appear in vSphere client essentially as DAS but I'm not seeing anything. Does anyone have ideas what I could have done wrong?
Hi All, I'm a bit of a VMware noob so go easy :-). I have a IBM BladeCenter S which already has some some blades in it and these are physical servers. I plan to add another HS23 Blade and use ... See more...
Hi All, I'm a bit of a VMware noob so go easy :-). I have a IBM BladeCenter S which already has some some blades in it and these are physical servers. I plan to add another HS23 Blade and use this as an ESXi (v5) host. I have 3 300GB disks I tend to use to create a new RAID 5 array for this ESXi host. Does anyone have any knowledge of using VMare on a BladeCenter S that could tell me if what I'm about to do has any pitfalls? I've seen this post http://communities.vmware.com/thread/344822 but unfortuantely I can't read French so I don't know what the issue was. I've also noticed that this RAID module firmware update for the BladeCenter S https://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/myportal/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-5087717 states that it supports vSphere 5 Update 1. That would suggest previous versions of the firmware didn't support vSphere 5 Update 1 but does anyone know what previous firmware versions (if any) supported vSphere 5 only? Cheers C
many thanks.
Hi There, I see from this KB http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006778 that there are quite a lot of limitations with using unicast ... See more...
Hi There, I see from this KB http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006778 that there are quite a lot of limitations with using unicast NLB with VMWARE. The biggest one for me being that "All members of the NLB cluster must be running on the same ESX host". Does this limitation, or any other for that matter, exist when using multicast NLB? Cheers C
Mine's is a Stella
See this post: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1824957#1824957 basically I just did a shift+o at installtion and used the formatwithmbr command. After the installtion completed the USB ... See more...
See this post: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1824957#1824957 basically I just did a shift+o at installtion and used the formatwithmbr command. After the installtion completed the USB drive worked a treat.
Cheers Steve. It wasn't a dodgy USB stick it was the BOIS on my motherboard wasn't GPT compatible so I added the formatwithMBR command and that sorted it.
I have successfully created a USB boot device for ESXi 5 but it won't boot on the test PC I'm trying to use. I also installed ESXi 5 on the internal disk of the PC to test if it was compatible an... See more...
I have successfully created a USB boot device for ESXi 5 but it won't boot on the test PC I'm trying to use. I also installed ESXi 5 on the internal disk of the PC to test if it was compatible and the OS boots fine from that. But I really want to test the USB boot funtionality. If have set the BIOS to boot from USB first. If I boot my laptop from the same ESXi USB device it works fine. Any ideas?
Thank you.