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‎06-26-2014 06:39 AM

ESXi host takes over an hour to boot up

This is a Proliant BL 450c G7.  I did an upgrade from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.1 Update 1 via update manager.

When the boot process reaches 'vmw_vaaip_hds loaded successfully', it takes more than an hour to finish the boot process.

After the boot process is completed, everything seems fine.

If anyone has experienced this issue and knows of a resolution kindly share with me.

Thanks


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rh5592
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‎06-26-2014 07:03 AM

Most of the time is due to lots of physical RDMs when using MSCS. Do you happen to have them? If yes, use this kb to resolve it VMware KB: ESXi/ESX hosts with visibility to RDM LUNs being used by MSCS nodes with RDMs may take a ...

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vfk
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‎06-26-2014 08:08 AM

I agree with Rommel, possibly, you have too many RDM presented.  Also, I would check you have the correct options set on your HDS Lun for VMware.  I cannot remember what options were, but I don't think they on by default.

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