In the past we didn't move to ESXi because we wanted to install the Dell OpenManage agents on the ESX hosts. This hasn't been a problem since 3.5 and ESXi 4 is even better now that Dell is tapping into the ESX 4 CIM provider. Our storage array agents are not required-so we don'...
This article is also applicable when the disk is not removed from the disk group before replacing the physical disk If the disk group remove command fails and a reboot is not wanted for any reason here is a workaround: 1. Unplug the cache physically from the host. 2.vdq -iHto get disk...
Well... it was my understanding of the different thing I already read... I wanted to be sure by actually asking to real user. Thanks for your input... pavelbernardi Posted Sep 23, 2009 08:23 PM ReplyReply Privately If you are buying some licenses most resellers will install and run ...
I recently helped a colleague who wanted to mark an HDD device in ESXi to show up as an SSD, which may be needed if the storage device was not correctly detected or if you are using Nested ESXi and the underlying storage is not an SSD and you need to mark it as an SSD for use w...
In another set of experiments, we wanted to demonstrate the capabilities of ESX to absorb the burstiness of I/O workloads running in multiple virtual machines. On our ESX host we powered on 16 virtual machines and ran a series of tests, gradually increasing the number of outstanding I/Os fro...
1- Connect to the VMware ESX server where is the missing datastore (VMFS) was connected using SSH. Make sure you have a root access. 2- Run the following command to find out your SAN devices:esxcfg-vmhbadevs The output will look something like below: ...
If the disk group remove command fails and a reboot is not wanted for any reason here is a workaround: 1. Unplug the cache physically from the host. 2.vdq -iHto get disk group mappings and copy the cache uuid. 3. Run the following command. ...
I performed a fresh installation of ESXi 7.0 (running as Nested ESXi VM) that was configured with 1TB of storage and here is what the filesystem layout now looks: We can see that the ESX-OSData volume takes up ~119.75GB, which is not too bad for 1TB volume but I can understand th...
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Hi there, First off, I want to give you proprs for an awesome script that has helped us setting up home labs for years! 👍 I reached a point where I need to reinstall my ESXi, and I wanted to make use of your script again. I`m running Win...