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I get a timeout on iSCSI on different ESX hosts (3.5) at different times. It is puzzling, as both the ESX hosts as windows and other guests are experiencing timeouts.
The iSCSI network is segregated on a private network.
Here is an export of vmkiscsid.log from last night:
2010-02-10-12:30:38: iscsid:…
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can a PC setup as W2K3 DC manage two ESX hosts connected to physical hub/switch?
Services: DNS, DHCP, Domain distributed to host using a hub/switch.
NIC2 on each host connected to switch/hub...spanning a virtual network inside each ESX host
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I was trying to install ESX 3.5 on hp blade 460c but it fails with error no 'network adapter is detected'. Anybody has work around for this.
I also tried to install ESX 4.1, it also had the same problem but in case of 4.1 there is support to add your custom driver while installing. So I added NIC…
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VMware and many network evangelists try to tell you that sophisticated (=expensive) fiber SANs are the "only" storage option for VMware ESX and ESXi servers. Well, yes, of course. Using a SAN is fast, reliable and makes vMotion possible. Great. But: Can all ESX/ESXi users really afford SANs?
My theory…
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I've currently got a pair of vSphere5 standard servers (physical, not VAs) managing about a hundred ESX 4.1 and 5 hosts in two different physical and logical datacenters. With our last purchase, we bought another vSphere license for the new vS server. I unmanaged all the ESX servers in one datacenter…
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The more I look into ESX the more often i have to handle cases where the partition table of a disk with a VMFS volume gets corrupted.
The reasons for this can be
* idiot user
* failed update
* power failure
* ....
I guess you guys must already have something like a usual procedure on how to work…
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I want to add a new harddisk to an existing VM and want the best performance possible. The new hard disk will exist on an NFS datastore. Currently I did the following:
Created new vmdk on NFS datastore
Created new lvm partition using fdisk
Create new physical volume, volume group, and logical volume…
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Existing setup:
host1 and host2, ESX 4.0, 2 HBAs each.
lun1 and lun2, 2 LUNs belonging to the same RAID set (my terminology might be sketchy here).
This has been working just fine all along.
I added host3, ESXi 4.1, 2 HBAs.
If I view Configuration / Storage Adapters, I can see that both HBAs…
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Existing setup:
host1 and host2, ESX 4.0, 2 HBAs each.
lun1 and lun2, 2 LUNs belonging to the same RAID set (my terminology might be sketchy here).
This has been working just fine all along.
I added host3, ESXi 4.1, 2 HBAs.
If I view Configuration / Storage Adapters, I can see that both HBAs…
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I currently have a cluster of two ESX 3.5U2 servers connected directly via FiberChannel to a NetApp 3020 cluster. These hosts mount four VMFS LUNs for virtual machine storage. Currently these LUNs are only made available via our FiberChannel initator in the Netapp configuration
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