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Re: esxi 4.0 installable and apple xserve raid
Hi My troubles seems to be same with the internal RAID pro card of my Xserve Apple. (last generation 2009)So, your post dates from 2010 to 2011.Here i am in 2016, ESXi version 6.0.Does anyone tried to...
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getting host auto start up details
I have about 50 ESXi 4.1 servers that are hosting Windows virtual servers I need to be able to get a list of which virtual servers on each host is set to auto start on server reboot Any easy way in...
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Re: Reclaim unused space on thin provisioned disk?
Hi All, I am running into the reclaim space issue just recently and I am already beginning to be frustrated. I will explain our situation. We are running vSphere v6.0U2 and have thick provisioned...
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Hello Ronald, I think you would have been better off starting a new thread in the correct forum instead of kicking an old thread in the ESXi4 sub forum. As for the time it takes to write out zero's to...
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Hi Wil, thank you for the response. I should have opened a new thread but is seemed this thread was still active Could you give me a little more insight in why all of you guys don't mind the drive...
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Hi Ronald, You need to have the FULL space available that your virtual disk can use.What sdelete does is write out zero's and while it is doing that it will inflate the virtual disk.Beware that you...
View ArticleESXI 4.1 Drive Rebuild Stuck Question
Hi I am new to VMware. I took on a client about a year ago that has an ESXI 4.1 server with 4 virtual machines. These virtual machines include the domain controller/file server, email server, database...
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Re: ESXI 4.1 Drive Rebuild Stuck Question
Hiyou will not like my answer - but if you dont want to lose the data of your VMs I highly recommend to regard your RAID as unrepairable and try to extract the data as long as you can.In the last few...
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wilaFor space reclamation using svmotion to/from NFS I still need to write all the Zero Blocks Right ?
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Hi, Technically yes. The way it works however is that it will reclaim the empty space that has zero'd out data. So if you don't have enough free space then you could still reclaim by partly zeroing out...
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wila I am a bit confused. yesterday I finished a svMotion from NFS and back to VMFS(5) and I noticed no space has been Reclaimed.So either I am misreading your post or something else goes wrong. That...
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Re: Reclaim unused space on thin provisioned disk?
The disk reclaim is when going from VMFS to NFS, not the other way around. --Wil
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Re: Datastore not accessible
There is no such thing like a universal answer to this question.Sometimes this just means faulty hardware, sometimes it is a fixable error in the VMFS filesystem and sometimes it means that it is still...
View ArticleHELP: Running ESXi 4.1 host just lost it's boot disk
One of our ESXi 4.1 servers lost a drive in it's Raid-1 boot array about a week ago. No biggie, bought new drive, inserted new drive today, array began rebuild. Other drive fails during rebuild....
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Re: HELP: Running ESXi 4.1 host just lost it's boot disk
If the VMs are running on different storage to your ESXi install then one option would be to install ESXi onto say a USB stick instead of a disk.Once installed, configure ESXi as before then navigate...
View ArticleUpgrade process for ESXi (on a USB key)
We've currently around 180 remote sites using mainly ESXi 4.1 with around a dozen on 5.1 booting from USB keys. We need to upgrade (due to backup solution compatibility) to a mix of 5,5 and 6.0 (the...
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personly i would upgrade on the usb disk instead of creating a new one.but you should be fine to add the datastore and find the vm's and add them back to the inventory 2 things come to mind at the...
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Re: HELP: Running ESXi 4.1 host just lost it's boot disk
just an idearemove the new diskgo into raid bios and set the last disk that failed to good and try booting. (sometimes it works but not always) if that works try rebuilding again with new disk ofcourse...
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