Note to self. Only work internally on a host 
Sep
01
Internalonly-network not working on ESX(i)
Aug
26
Understand how the vStorage API works and what it does
Check out this video from NetApp
Aug
26
“host ipmi system event log status” reported by vCenter
After i upgraded our testenvironment from 4.0.0 to 4.1 i got this error in vcenter.(Dell R710 servers)
“host ipmi system event log status”
According to this forumpost and “vSphere Datacenter Administration Guide” the system event log (in the BIOS) is full and needs to be cleared.
Aug
24
Connecting an Equallogic PS-series Storage (iSCSI) to vsphere4
I found this little video from Equallogic (Dell).
Aug
24
vSphere, Netapp and NFS – a great cocktail
The 2TB-512b limitation in VMFS is very annoying and the answer to that problem is: NFS – One of the best storagevendors to support NFS is netapp.
If your a considering NFS on vsphere check out these links, to get the best practices.
VMware: NetApp Best Practices for configuring NFS Heartbeat settings
VMware: Best Practices for running VMware vSphereTM on Network Attached Storage (PDF)
NetApp: NetApp and VMware vSphere Storage Best Practices(PDF – updated 17 aug. 2010)
Aug
12
Intel dual port 10Gbit NIC not working in ESX(i) – Part 2
So, i orded some new SFP’s. Dell shiped me some new one’s and i inserted them in the NIC.
Still get “ixgbe_probe: failed to load because an unsupported SFP+ module type was detected.”
Turn out the SFP’s i got only work with the 82599-chipset and my NICS are 82598.
Soruce: http://downloadmirror.intel.com/14688/eng/README.txt
Hopefully next time, i will get the right one’s.
Aug
03
Intel dual port 10Gbit NIC not working in ESX(i)
A few days back a had a problem with a 10Gbit NIC in a Dell R710 server. I could not get it working.
I tried upgrading the driver with RCLI:
C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI>vihostupdate.pl –server 192.168.1.2 –username root –install –bundle C:\Downloads\VMware\vmware-esx-drivers-net-ixgbe_400.2.0.44.14.4-1.0.4.164009.215251\offline-bundle\INT-intel-lad-ddk-ixgbe-400.2.0.44.14.4-1.0.4.164009-offline_bun
It installed without problems but the NIC was still not working.
Then i found these errors in /var/log/boot.log
Jul 26 08:34:34 vmkernel: 0:00:00:25.825 cpu3:4567)<3>ixgbe: 0000:09:00.0: ixgbe_probe: failed to load because an unsupported SFP+ module type was detected.
Jul 26 08:34:34 vmkernel: 0:00:00:25.950 cpu3:4567)<3>ixgbe: 0000:09:00.1: ixgbe_probe: failed to load because an unsupported SFP+ module type was detected.
Apperently someone gave me the wrong SPF’s and when they are inserted in to the NIC, the driver will not start.
I took out the SPF’s a the NIC showed up in the vsphere-client.
Jun
22
ESX on Dell R710 – vSphere-client not connecting
In my case it had something to do with the Drac-configuration. I had to disable “System Services” in the drac-menu.
The weird thing was, that i have 2 identical servers, and only one of them had them problem.
Link:
Thread on vmware
Jun
11
Extend systemdrive on a virtual machine
Download EASEUS Todo Backup, here
Clone the systemdrive to a newly added bigger HDD
Now Extend the volume to fit the bigger HD
To extend a basic volume
1. Open Command Prompt.
2. Type:
diskpart
3. At the DISKPART prompt, type:
list volume
Make note of the number of the basic volume you want to extend.
4. At the DISKPART prompt, type:
select volume n
Selects the basic volume, n, you want to extend into contiguous, empty space on the same disk.
5. At the DISKPART prompt, type:
extend [size=n]
Eg: extend size=22000
This extends the drive with 22GB
Jan
20
VCP4 study notes (part 3)
Know your way around in the vCenter GUI. There are some questions in the VCP4-test regarding what options you have different places in the GUI. Go through all menus and options, and know what they are there for.
An example could be: What is the default setting for “Default cluster settings” under VM monitoring in the HA-configuration?
1: Low
2: Medium
3: High
Check the answer out here