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• Upgrading the bios on a DELL M600

  Hi all

  I need to update a bios on a Dell M600 running esxi 4.1

  I want to know what is the easiest way to do it. For now, I have a USB bootable on a freedos. Is it possible to put the firmware (.exe) on it and to start the m600 top to do the update of the actual?

  Could you help me

  Thank you

  The "Non-packed' will work. If you have any problems with this process, you can also try to use the Linux version after the start of this ISO - linux.dell.com/.../OMSA71-CentOS6-x86_64-LiveDVD.iso

  It is another option.

• Brocade 4424

  Does anyone know how to clear the root user on a Brocade M4424 for the M1000e switch? I got a hold of support of Brocade, but they said I need to contact Dell to clear the root user. I've got 3 x of the switches, which currently have no support contract. I work for a dealer, these switches actually come directly from Dell. Someone at - it a procedure to reset/Reset FW?

  Any help would be much appreciated-

  V/r

  JW

  Let me answer my own post in over a year. :))) While I have potentially met the same 3 new switches - we had to use anything else than the last time. Since then we successfully anchored a M5424 - so I dug a bit, maybe 40 mintues deep. And am out laughing hard now. I read 3-4 reset all long procedures, 'fun' to research involving the modification of procedures - initialize variables, etc. Then I put 2 and 2 together and here's 4 - I took the tips of some of them and wrote a very simple procedure to reset the switches - it works on the M4424 and I think it would be good for the M5424 and many other brocade switches.

  -You don't need the eProm password to work, all affect this password if it is enabled even more turns. You can disable it by opening the switch and pressing the two buttons in the corner individually.

  M4424 reset without root access:

  Connect to the console - reboot the switch

  Press ESC when you are prompted to enter the boot menu

  Select option 3. The password is usually set to the password

  but it is empty by default.

  Run printenv command to display the environment variables needed to

  commands below. -I separated the useful bits, we only need information osloader and rootpartition.

  AutoLoad = yes

  ENET_MAC = 00051EA3E8E5

  InitTest = MEM)

  LoadIdentifiers = operating system; Operating system

  OSLoadOptions = quiet; quiet

  OSLoader = ATA (0x5d040); ATA (0X3C890)

  OSRootPartition = hda2; hda1

  SkipWatchdog = yes

  boot ATA (0x5d040 s)<-- osloader="*string*" make="" sure="" the="" -s="" switch="" is="" there,="" or="" it="" boots="">

  the remount mount - o rw, noatime /.<-- needs="" to="" be="" mounted="" in="">

  mount/dev/hda1/MNT<-- mount="" second="" listed="">

  / sbin/passwddefault<-- password="" reset="">

  reset<-- reboots="" the="">

  And wala-switch user data are reset. Now you can access the GUI and restore the default settings like a pro by logging in as root

  root

  fibranne

  If only I had a time machine.

• ESXi 5.5 Dell M620 M8428-K

  Hi all

  I have a problem with ESXi 5.5 - when I join all my network cards to a switch I lose connection.

  Here is my configuration:

  Reference Dell M620 blades in a M1000e chassis. We have 10 adapters GB Qlogic NAC - dual channel QMD8262-K, which are divided into 4 adapters on each channel, linking to 2 x switches chassis K-M8428-Dell (rebadged brocade 8000).

  When you use ESXi 5.1 everything works perfectly.

  I got a box to open with VMware since November and so far they were able to identify that the ARP requests are extinguished vmnic0 but ARP reply packets come back through vmnic2 and lost by Team_ReverseFilterPerList(). That's why vmk0 stops sending traffic.

  I was wondering if someone has a similar setup and work with ESXi 5.5? We have 7 of these boxes and none work with ESXi 5.5.

  Thank you

  Geoff.

  Here is the command that worked for me. You must restart after his entered before it takes effect.

  esxcfg-module - s defq_filters_param = 0 qlcnic

• Reference Dell VRTX Drive Configuration

  I'm trying to configure a Dell VRTX to 3 blades with R2 2012 Windows failover

  I followed the instructions from Dell to create a Quorum disk (RAID 1) and a shared disk of the cluster (CSV) - Raid 50.

  The issue is, in each Windows host, Disk Manager sees each virtual disk twice.

  What did I miss?

  

  I answered my own question.

  The Microsoft MPIO's feature must be installed as well

• VMware ESXi 4.0 with customization of Dell

  VMware this displayed on the download page of ESXi VMware ESXi 4.0 with Dell' customization 'yesterday. I installed it on a test server, a Dell m600.

  I use the free ESXi license at this time.

  I expect this version will include Dell OpenManage 6.1 as well as Dell custom drivers. After installation, I am unable to connect to https://esxi_server:1311 (i.e. port OpenManage).

  Issues related to the:

  1. Nobody knows exactly what is in this custom version? Is it drivers and OpenManage?

  2. Assuming that OM is part of the customization, what should I do to make it work?

  3. When I finally get my license for vSphere Essentials (maybe more), it'll work with this ESXi installation (just change the license number to authorize a vSphere Essentials managed node? or is it a completely separate ESXi install media for this product)?

  See further discussions on http://communities.vmware.com/thread/220783?tstart=0

  It contains all the necessary information to configure OpenManage 6.1 on ESXi 4.0.

  Earlier with ESXi 3.5, OpenManage component has been incorporated into the ISO image

  but leaving ESXi 4.0, VMware has introduced a new concept called Vsphere Bundle (VIB) Installation and allows end users download files VIB and install it on ESXi 4.0. If Dell has begun to post their OpenManage as a VIB component in support.dell.com.

  All these information as download OpenManage, OpenManage configure and get Web page OpenManage are discussed above mentioned thread in detail. Let me know if you have trouble with running Openmanage on ESXi 4.0

• Cannot Storage Vmotion between EMC Celerra NFS and NFS VNX

  Recently we have improved our infrastructure VMware 3.5 to 5.0. Managed to migrate all virtual machines to the Esxi5.0 without any problems. More recently, we bought new storage EMC VNX 5300, set up and configured the NFS storage for the early. All the warehouses of new data related to blades and all storage pools, old and new can be found under vCenter.

  Problem we have is that we can not Storage vMotion virtual machines of the old Celerra NFS for new NFS VNX stores. It comes back with the error "cannot access file VM VNX {datastore} filename '. We got a similar message appears when you try to create a new virtual machine or import an OVF on VNX new data warehouses.

  We have the license of the company, with Dell M600 blades with EMC storage as mentioned above.

  Pointers would be appreciated

  Kem

  Thanks for your contributions, but I solved it. A bit of a 'schoolboy error', but although I had added to the VMKernel IP in the host root and read-write in the NFS export properties, I also need to add the IP address of the hosts/blades. Storage vMotion successfully in new stores VNX. THX Kem

• vCPU to Jepp (Physics)

  Man, my head is about to explode with all the information I read on vCPU to physical CPU!

  I would like to just that sink, I work in an environment that has 20 hosts distributed on more than 2 data centers. 12 host to A and 8 b. well, we were under the impression that adding more hosts and our VM stretching help to alleviate problems of slow. We had 6 and 4 B keep in mind that I said helps, does not cure all for all! Well, after what I read with the virtual machine resources and best practices, I am just more confused. I have need a more direct answer or something that can point me in the right direction.

  Memory is not a questions on my hosts, I push anywhere from 32 GB to 48GBish on the hosts themselves, not great but good enough. Now my vCPUs on my virtual machines are the questions that I feel has plagued some of the slowness. For example, on my new hosts they are:

  Reference Dell m600

  42 GB memory

  8CPUs x 2826 GHz

  2 processor Sockets

  4 cores per Socket

  8 (-16 seek logical depending on whether we have Hyperthreading running on the host or not with this host having only 8)

  This area of host being an example, I have only three virtual machines on it. All three are Server2003, 2 of them are Terminal Server servers and one is a file/program server (a single program is drawn to users on terminal server).

  Each of the three servers have 4 vCPU and 4 GB of memory.

  My understanding is that the memory that we are strong. 4 x 3 = 12 right? Yes 12 GB memory and we have 42GBish on this server, we are good right?

  vCPU is 4 x 3 = 12 no? Is that 12 physical processor sockets, 12 cores, or 12 logical processors, I have to have? Which, as you can see this host is not 12 cpu anything if I understand that correctly?

  I read here that you must not exceed vcpu more that your host has himself? So my final question is, looking at the above, plug vCPUs how can my host theoretically flat? (I know it depends, but for fun, we're going to put a number on it). Thank you in advance!

  Need help,

  -Oscar

  This is how your host example looks like:

  • Reference Dell M600 blades with Intel E54xx processors!
  • Two processors quad-core, HyperThreading disabled!
  • What type of storage (FC, iSCSI, local)?
  • In the case of local storage: SAS or SATA drives? Controller RAID with BBU (enabled write cache)?
  • Windows Server 2003, Standard edition.

  A few thoughts on this:

  • After my experience XenApp rather is out of memory that CPU (unless you really use the applications resources CPU).
  • Enabling HyperThreading may help a little for the processor you are using. For the 55xx or newer models of CPU, enabling HyperThreading will make a significant difference.
  • If you use local storage, BBU makes a HUGE difference in the performance of the disks (factor of 10 x or better).
  • A default installation of Windows 2003 does not align partitions (31.5 KB) to the VMFS and physical storage. It is perhaps not a real problem in the case of a storage system, but for local storage of well aligned partitions can make a difference of 10-15% in the performance of the disk. If there is a chance, align the partitions to 1 MB, which is the default for Windows Vista/2008 and more recent value.

  My conclusion for the host of the example above:

  • The most important - point and that's where I absolutely agree with Tom - is to reduce the number of vCPU to the file server (I assume that this will make no difference to the file server) as well as for XenApp servers to two. This will leave two vCPUs for the host and should reduce the values of "CPU Ready" that can cause slow.
  • In the case of local storage consider adding BBU, unless you already have it.
  • If the above doesn't help, consider align partitions to 1 MB, and - in the case where it is the memory of comments, which is limited - consider switching to the Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition in order to allow more memory comments (up to 12-14 GB usually works well with XenApp on Windows 2003).
    Note: A Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition license (must be at least a R2 license) allows you to install up to 4 instances of Windows Server on a single host.

  André

• Support HBA (vSphere 5) and display of the adapters for storage in vSphere client

  Hi again,

  Some hosts that I am looking to upgrade from ESX 4.0 update 4 to ESXi 5 bear the name of FC HBA following listed under storage adapters, and I would like to see if they are compatible with ESXi 5.

  Focus on the ISP2432 4 Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA

  The actual servers themselves are servers Dell M600 blades. I would say that it's just what is listed in the section of storage cards (my guess is the name of the driver). The configurations of real system for M600 blades as they were purchased from Dell are listed as having HBA QLOGIC QME2472 FC4 HBA's PORT DOUBLE PC CARD adapters in them. These are listed as supported on ESXi 5. So I guess my question is more around - what is reported in the list of storage adapters more indication of the driver name for the HBA rather than the real exact device/model of the HBA? How can I make 100% sure that this is the exact material HBA model in my hosts? i.e. the QME2472? I can use Dell OpenManage but that lists what ESX reports cards like - which is the ISP2432 base of HBA. Is there something more low level, that I can use to see the material in ESX?

  See you soon,.

  Sean

  Yes, the HBA is supported on ESXi5.  You can always check the HCL for clarification

  Brand name	Model	Type of device	Supported releases
  QLogic	Focus on the ISP2432 4 Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA	FC	ESXi 5.0 ESX / ESXi 4.1 U2 ESX / ESXi 4.1 U1 ESX / ESXi 4.1 ESX 3.5 U5 ESX 3.5 U4 ESX 3.5 U3 ESX 3.5 U2 ESX 3.5 U1 ESX 3.5 ESXi 3.5 integrated U5 ESXi 3.5 integrated U4 ESXi 3.5 integrated U3 ESXi 3.5 integrated U2 ESXi 3.5 integrated U1 ESXi 3.5 integrated ESXi 3.5 Installable U5 ESXi 3.5 Installable U4 ESXi 3.5 Installable U3 ESXi 3.5 Installable U2 ESXi 3.5 Installable U1 ESXi 3.5 Installable ESX 3.0.3 U1 ESX 3.0.3 ESX 3.0.2 U1 ESX 3.0.2 ESX 3.0.1 ESX 3.0

• Applying strategies to BEAR in ESX to its physical equipment.

  Ken Cline and Ed Haletky (among others) put on some great standard practical information for natachasery and vswitches in an ESX environment.  I have read and reread to try to put up my new ESX environment and still seems to me lacking something.  Especially when it comes to applying the physical network interface cards to its equipment, and whether they should be on VLANS separated, separate switches all together and how.  Here is the configuration of what I have.

  * Qty 3 stacked GigE switches dedicated for my LAN network. (24 192.168.0.0)

  • Qty 2, trunked GigE switches dedicated for my SAN (10.10.0.0/24)

  • Qty 1, unit of Dell/Equallogic ISCSI SAN PS5500 connected to the dedicated SAN switches.

  • Qty 1, Dell M1000e blade enclosure, with thoughts pass Ethernet on all 3 fabrics; A, B and C.

  • Qty 4, Dell M600 blades in box with 6 NIC per blade

  • Each blade has 6 network cards.  The article of the Ed, they should include the following:

  • 1 NETWORK card by blade for the service console (vswitch0)

  • 1 NETWORK card by blade for vmotion (vswitch0)

  • 2 NICs by blade dedicated to my SAN. (vswitch1) connected to my SAN (fabric)

  • 2 network cards by blade dedicated to my machine network virtual (vswitch2) connected to my local network

  • Qty 1, box of ESXi, who run a virtual stored on the SAN network computer to run Vcenter.  Virtualized, but is not part of my blade cluster.

  My uncertainty is when to know how work isolated networks.

  1. If I have my LAN on a 192.168.0.0 network 24, should I isolate ports that the console service and vmotion in a VLAN on my LAN devices and assign a network block of say 172.16.32.0 24 and make this routable to the primary LAN? (for example, 192.168.0.0/24)

  2. the NETWORK adapter dedicated for vmotion (but on vswitch0,) identical to the service console is going to be on one VLAN separate himself, or he will live in the same block of theoretical to say 172.16.32.0/24 network?

  3. If you have difficulties establishing a vlan for these purposes of mgmt, can we have thise natachasery go to a separate switch that is located on a different footing (very well protected) of its firewall?

  I know once I put the missing pieces of the puzzle together, I really get it.  But now, I'm not there yet.  Any info would be greatly appreciated.

  Hello

  No doubt the way I would do it. Happy, we could help. Don't forget to add points by marking answers as useful or appropriate.

  Best regards
  Edward L. Haletky
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• Storage VMotion - a general error occurred: could not wait for the data.  Error bad0007.

  People,

  I searched through this forum and have not found an answer that works in many positions out there, I say to myself that I would ask him once again.

  Here's the context:

  We have 12 identical Dell M600 blades in 2 chassis with 16 GB of Ram, 2 x Xeon E5430, they are all connected to an Equallogic PS 5000XV iSCSI SAN on a separate iSCSI (vswitch1) with 2 cards network dedicated network and dedicated switch, console svc iscsi dedicated, dedicated VMkernel port for iscsi access. Net access (vswitch0) contains port groups VM for our various networks and a console port and vmkernel svc for VMotion with 2 separate NETWORK cards as well.

  We are running ESX 3.5 U3 and VCenter 2.5 U3 on Win2k3 R2

  VMotion works between all servers, Storage Vmotion works for most machines, HA works and the value 2 host failurs with no monitoring of vm, DRS is set to manual for now I have a few machines on the local stores that I complete my rebuilt LUN, there is no set of rules for DRS and VMware EVC is enabled for guests of the Intel. However, I'll just describe one machine to do svmotion below.

  Here's the problem:

  I'm trying to Svmotion via svmotion.pl - interactive, a Machine to Windows 2000 with a virtual disk and a virtual RDM. I am aware of the requirements for the RDM and required parameters for svmotion, independent is not selected for the RDM, and I also have svmotioned several machines linux and win2k3 with the same configuration without problem. In the interactive session, I choose to individually place the disks and I chose the virtual disk to only the virtual machine to be moved, essentially, as I saw it move vdisk virtual machine and then copy to the pointer of the RDM.

  The use of the processor in this machine is about 25% average. but I try to run migrations at the time the lowest. and The Host it itself shows only about 5.5 GB of the 16 GB of RAM used. so I think we're good on the RAM. the volume/datastore that I'm migrating from has 485 GB free and the volume/datastore I migration towards a 145 GB free. the VM virtual disk is only about 33 GB.

  I run the script the windows version of the RCLI svmotion. and when to begin the process, I get the following error at around 2 percent of the progress:

  "Since the server has encountered an error: a general error occurred: could not wait for the data."  Error bad0007. Invalid parameter. »

  After searching around, I found the following hotfixes to the U2 release notes

  • Migrate.PageInTimeoutResetOnProgress: Set the value to 1.

  • Migrate.PageInProgress: The value 30, if you get an error even after the setting of the Migrate.PageInTimeoutResetOnProgress variable.

  I've made these changes, and I still get the same error.

  When I dig in the newspaper, I see these entries in the journal of vmkwarning:

  (Feb 24 00:17:32 vmkernel iq-virt-c2-b6: 82:04:13:56.794 cpu4:1394) WARNING: bunch: 1397: migHeap0 already at its maximumSize bunch. Cannot extend.

  (Feb 24 00:17:32 vmkernel iq-virt-c2-b6: 82:04:13:56.794 cpu4:1394) WARNING: bunch: 1522: Heap_Align (migHeap0, 1030120338/1030120338 bytes, 4 align) failed.  calling: 0x988f61

  (Feb 24 00:17:32 vmkernel iq-virt-c2-b6: 82:04:13:56.794 cpu4:1394) WARNING: migrate: 1243: 1235452646235015: failure: out of memory (0xbad0014) @0x98da8b

  (Feb 24 00:17:32 vmkernel iq-virt-c2-b6: 82:04:13:56.794 cpu2:1395) WARNING: MigrateNet: 309: 1235452646235015: 5 - 0xa023818: sent only 4096 bytes of data in message 0: Broken pipe

  (Feb 24 00:17:32 vmkernel iq-virt-c2-b6: 82:04:13:56.794 cpu6:1396) WARNING: migrate: 1243: 1235452646235015: failed: Migration protocol error (0xbad003e) @0x98da8b

  (Feb 24 00:17:32 vmkernel iq-virt-c2-b6: 82:04:13:56.794 cpu2:1395) WARNING: migrate: 6776: 1235452646235015: could not send data for 56486: Broken pipe

  At this point, I'm stuck... What is Windows RCLI? the vcenter Server? or the service console with not enough of RAM? We have already increased all our consoles service 512 MB...

  Any help would be greatly appreciated...

  Thanks in advance.

  Alvin

  The vmkernel on out of memory error, I had that before. And vmware support recommends setting 800M Max service console memory. And I did it and have no problems after that.

  See if that helps the issue.

  Mike

• Virtual Drive do not show in the BIOS after you connect Virtual Media to the iDRAC

  Hello

  I had a problem with iDRAC to install from an ISO OS image to a M600 server.

  I have measurements are:

  1. connect to the iDRAC, System-> Console-> launch Viewer

  2. in iDRACView, Media-> CD Media-> ISO Image-> [select .iso image and OS]-> Connect-> closed

  After restarting the server, "boot sequence" in the shown BIOS

  CD-ROM USB device (not installed)
  USB Floppy device (not installed)
  Hard drive C:
  Embedded NIc 1 MBA v4.4.4 Slot 0400

  Manaul Dell boot sequence should show Virtual CD etc but I have everything installed not.

  Cannot start server from the image but the "current status" in Virtual Media to iDRAC is 'connected.

  My server is a Dell M600 and iDRAC IPMI version is 2.0 and the firmware version is 1.60 (Build 3).  Help, please.  Thank you

  RDG,

  Certainly an unusual problem.  A few questions to better understand the issue.

  1st. A it worked correctly at any time, or is - this first enter this part of the functionality of the iDRAC?

  2 have you tried different media in order to ensure that the issue is not isolated just for this disc?

  What is particularly unusual as connected virtual media lists, it's clearly is not resolve as expected.

• Cloning a virtual machine that contains a system of operating under existing Windows license

  I have a Dell VRTX with three blades and five VM.  All five VM have Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit as the operating system.

  In the near future, I will create at least two new virtual machines that are also having Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit as the operating system.  To make things easy for me, I would like to just clone among the five existing VM to make the new virtual machine.  This should be easier to make a virtual machine from scratch.

  However, I'm concerned by the existing Windows license manager.  Ideally, I would like to clone an existing virtual machine, remove (format?) the Windows Server 2012 R2 64 bit installation of VM newly created and then perform a new installation of Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit, install VMware Tools, etc. in the new virtual machine.

  1. what happens in the short time that in double Windows licenses are active?  I fear that the window one or two facilities will become disabled, as well.

  2. is there a better/more way to reach my goal of creating the new virtual machine?

  3. are there additional tips, comments or questions?

  Thanks in advance.

  
  

  Members of your VM of a domain? If you blow the OS disk, then just make sure that the first time it starts (if you need to start), you disable the network adapters for. Personally, I would create from scratch, especially if they are members of the domain.

• Fail-Over with limited resources

  I'm new to VMware.  I support a VRTX of Dell server at (3 blades) recently ordered.  Please answer the following questions:

  1 how Fail-Over does not work if you have limited resources?  When I install server Dell VRTX, I very careful with the allocation of RAM for some of the virtual machine.  It is mainly a VM that I am concerned about (64 GB of RAM).  I have a lot of storage for both the present and future of the virtual computer, so I'm talking about size/allocation of storage during the debate.  My current setup is:

  Slide 1:

  VM 1 # 8 processor cores, 64 GB RAM

  VM 2 # 4 CPU cores, 16 GB of RAM

  Blade 2:

  VM 3 # 4 cores of the processor, 32 GB RAM

  VM #4 4 CPU cores, 16 GB of RAM

  Blade 3:

  VM 5 # 8 processor cores, 32 GB of RAM

  Each blade: 2 (20 logic Cores/CPU) CPU, 128 GB of RAM

  Later this year I intend to add at least two 2 more VM (RAM allocation may be somewhat higher than those listed.).

  VM #6 4 CPU cores, 16 GB of RAM

  VM #7 4 CPU cores, 16 GB of RAM

  All the VMS operating system: Windows Server 2012 R2 64 bit

  2. I'm afraid that if 1 blade fails, and later, I much more Total virtual computer, what happens if the allocation of virtual machine disk RAM failing is greater than what is available on the blades for which virtual machine failover?

  I intend to recommend increasing the amount of RAM to 192 GB (minimum) by blade, just to be sure.  However, there is a chance that the increase of RAM cannot be approved.

  Thanks in advance.

  Hello

  If the amount of vRAM exceeds the available landau your VMs will have a bad time. Transparent page sharing, compression will help but eventually your virtual machines will begin to Exchange and it will be very sensitive.

  http://www.VMware.se/PDF/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere5.5.PDF

  Kind regards

  Martin

• slow startup of the host VMWare ESXi 5.5 when installed on the hard drive internal

  We have some servers Dell R720 with 256G RAM and 2 6core Procs.  When I install ESXi client for internal hard drives (mirrored array) it takes literally more than 5 minutes to start.  I can watch the vmware boot process crawl slowly the progress bar on the screen in "recovery" mode before moving on to the substantive start-up procedure yellow.

  Why is this slow process?  Why a hard drive inside is install using syslinux? (it's the first thing that shows on the display).  If I had to guess, I would say that the only facility to support runs of fat32 on a USB flash drive and the same hard drive installs use this same process to start.  Am I wrong?

  I'm late to the party, but we have been affected by this issue. The solution is a updated internally perc firmware.

  It's like night and day.

  Reference DELL PERC H310 Mini blades Firmware version 20.13.0 - 0007

  SAS RAID: Release date: 02/06/2014 | Last update on 02/06/2014