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Not that I'm actually surprised you were right with your suggestion but I wanted to confirm in case someone else comes across this issue. Using HPSA 5.5.0.84 and everything works fine.
Hi maaca, thanks for you quick reply, I'll try that as soon as I can. I thought I get around that by using the HP customized image but it seems as if I have to get my hands dirty anyway Do... See more...
Hi maaca, thanks for you quick reply, I'll try that as soon as I can. I thought I get around that by using the HP customized image but it seems as if I have to get my hands dirty anyway Do you think HPSA version 5.5.0.106 is good as that is the only one I can currently find on HP's website? Or is it safer do keep searching for a copy of 5.5.0.84? found it! kind regards, Markus
Hi, I have two HP Proliant DL380 G6 installed with HP customized ESXi 5.5 U2. Both machines have an internal HP SmartArray P410i SAS controller onboard and I have added a second P410 controlle... See more...
Hi, I have two HP Proliant DL380 G6 installed with HP customized ESXi 5.5 U2. Both machines have an internal HP SmartArray P410i SAS controller onboard and I have added a second P410 controller which is attached to a secondary drive cage. In the first drive cage I have a disk array and in the second I have an array plus a separate disk for this testing. On both machines when I boot up the system recognizes both controllers and diskarrays and datastores but after a while it looses the connection to the datastore2 which is the array in cage two. The individual disk is also gone but since there is no datastore created on this one it is not reported. I had the first server started once and after about 4 days the second datastore was gone. After that I shut the machine down and started the second one but it was the same. About 4 to 4,5 days and the datastore failed. The only hardware that I swap between the two machines are the disks itself, everything else is installed locally and therefore replaced when I swap server. Before I installed ESXi I had the machine booting a Windows Server 2008 R2 with HP drivers and I had no issues for about a week. Because if this, and because the only thing that is used in both server are the disks I'm tempted to think it is not a hardware issue. (I added the single disk in cage two to see if it is the disk array that fails or everything in the cage.) After the last reboot I created a few screenshot with everything working fine and now I added a few more pictures with my disks/datastores failed. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong but maybe someone could give me a hint of which direction I need to investigate further. Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks a lot. best regards, Markus
Ah, I see, the adapter type is required to write the destination disk file not to read the source file ? Thus it can be converted and backed-up at the same time. I'll give it a try and see... ... See more...
Ah, I see, the adapter type is required to write the destination disk file not to read the source file ? Thus it can be converted and backed-up at the same time. I'll give it a try and see... Thank you! Have a successful start into 2010!
Hello William, hello all! I have installed the ghettoVCB backup yesterday and need to say that I really love it. It does exactly what I had hoped, I only need to test the restore but I'm very ... See more...
Hello William, hello all! I have installed the ghettoVCB backup yesterday and need to say that I really love it. It does exactly what I had hoped, I only need to test the restore but I'm very optimistic. One minor improvement came to my mind during the setup: The backup parameters require the adapter type (I guess to correctly read the data from the disk-file) which makes it impossible to use the default parameters if Win2000 and Win2003+ vms are in use. I dont know much about unix shell scripts and also not about the internal structures of the *.vmdk files but by looking briefly over your scripts and my .vmdk file I thought of something like the following: this is a section out of your ghettoVCB.sh:   ...   #support for vRDM and deny pRDM   grep "vmfsPassthroughRawDeviceMap" "$" > /dev/null 2>&1   if \[ $? -eq 1 ]; then ==>   ADAPTER_FORMAT=$(grep -i "ddb.adapterType" "$" | awk -F '=' '{print $2}' | sed 's/"//g' | sed -e 's/^\[\[:blank:]]//;s/\[\[:blank:]]$//')     if \[ "$" == "zeroedthick" ]; then      if \[ "$" == "4" ]; then       $ -i "$" -a "$" -d zeroedthick "$" 2>&1 | tee -a -i "$"      else       ... The line with ===> is inserted by me. I copied the command from another section of your scripts because I think it extracts the right part of the line from a file (It is just a guess; to be honest, I dont understand even a part of what it really does ;-( Could this save me from specifying the adapter format each time and still get me the correct data? Do you think it works with all type of disks or only the .vmdk/-flat.vmdk combination that I looked at? Thanks for any feedback. Markus
Hi William, I found a script written by yourself: ghettoShutdown.pl which does exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks for publishing it!! Just for me to understand a bit better: VMware's ... See more...
Hi William, I found a script written by yourself: ghettoShutdown.pl which does exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks for publishing it!! Just for me to understand a bit better: VMware's hostops.pl uses a command target_host->ShutdownHost(force => 0); and your script uses (force => 1); Does that make the difference I was initially looking for? Thanks, Markus
Thanks for that! My current test environment is an ESXi as a virtual machine in VM Server 1. Just the host, no additional VMs on it - so nothing that needs a shutdown there. I tried to shut ... See more...
Thanks for that! My current test environment is an ESXi as a virtual machine in VM Server 1. Just the host, no additional VMs on it - so nothing that needs a shutdown there. I tried to shut down the host without maintenance mode but always get a message like "operation not supported in current state" (sorry I dont have the exact wording as a I'm not in the office anymore). Once I switch to maintenance mode the exact same command does shut down: hostops.pl --username root --operation shutdown --url --target_host localhost.localdomain --suspend 1 Do you think I need a different command or tool? To be honest, I'm a bit lost with all these different tools and their different names with every new version. Markus
Hi, at the moment I'm playing a bit with a single ESXi 4 server and I came to one problem I could not yet find a solution to: When I use vSphere CLI to reboot the host I need to enter mainten... See more...
Hi, at the moment I'm playing a bit with a single ESXi 4 server and I came to one problem I could not yet find a solution to: When I use vSphere CLI to reboot the host I need to enter maintenance mode and then reboot. hostops.pl --operation enter_maintenance http://... hostops.pl --operation reboot http://... it automatically leave the maintenance mode and restarts fine. If I try the same but shutdown the host it is still in maintenance mode after a restart. Is there any way to have it in normal operation after the boot-up? Background: I'm thinking of switching some of your VMware Server 1.0.9 vm's to a new ESXi box. But if we have a power cut I need to shut down the host and after power is restored I'd like the server to start up again. It does not help much if it is booting up but does not execute any vm because of maintenance mode. Do I have missed something in my thoughts? Do I need to use other tools than vShpere CLI? Thanks! Markus