ESXi Homelab on Fujitsu ground Econel 100S 2 - best options?

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• Install ESXi 4.0 on Fujitsu GROUND TX200 S4 with RAID 1

  Hello

  is it possible to install ESXi 4.0 U1 on a Fujitsu GROUND TX200 S4 server with RAID 1 of this machine system?

  The ESXi can manage the RAID?

  On the compatibility page of vmware search the Fujitsu GROUND TX200 S4 is in the list, but - what it means, ESXi has the RAID drivers too?

  I'm new to ESXi and want to be sure before you install it to my client.

  Thank you, soon, has

  franc

  To see official HCL:

  http://www.VMware.com/resources/compatibility

  To see white box configurations:

  http://www.VM-help.com

  http://ultimatewhitebox.com

  André

• ESXi 4.1 - pics Win2k8R2 VM 100% CPU

  I have a Dell R410 server with 2 x E5620 2.5 Ghz processor sockets.  As by the Vsphere client, given that each outlet has 4 cores and hyper threading is enabled, I have 16 logical processors = about 17 k MHZ at my disposal.

  My collegeue has created a virtual win2k8r2 with 1 virtual processor machine.  For this particular VM on the 'Summary' tab, 'Resources' box shows the "consumed" host CPU ranges from 500-2 500 MHZ.  To my knowledge all other ESXi CPU settings (such as Reserved/limit) for this virtual machine have been left to the default values.

  When I connect to the console of windows for this virtual machine, the properties of the computer says processor: Xeon E5630 2.53 GHz.  I then launch Manager tasks and on the performance tab, and not to shows me only one box for the CPU usage history as if it had only 1 CPU multi-threading.

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  When the graph shows that the CPU spikes on a regular basis 100% than what it means?  As I said above, the host CPU speed varies between 500-2 500 MHZ.  Why is does not use the other 15 Mhz k?  What is 1 virtual processor depending on what I should see boxes for the number of CPUS in the Task Manager?

  I'm a bit lost when it comes to all of these variant of CPU types references or how he translates what should I see in Windows Task Manager.

  for example, is the highest 1 virtual CPU assigned to my VM = 1 socket physical CPU, which in my case is equal to 4 physical cores or 8 CPU "virtual" because of the hyper-threading which must be equal to 8 boxes of CPU usage in the Manager of tasks in windows?

  Details on the above would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you

  Welcome to the community - now confuse you more - a virtual cpu (VCPU) is scheduled for a logical processor (LCPU). A LCPU can beither a physical core or a hyperthreading - so the only one VCPU is scheduled on one of the 16 LCPUs present your host. This means that a single VCPU will have access to a maximum of 2.5 - GHz

• Install ESXi 4 in fujitsu Bx620 S6

  Hello

  I want to install ESXi4 on a Server Blade BX620 S6 Fujitsu.

  The start of server does me not ESXi as an option in the list of the OS. It gives me only ESX.

  So how can I install ESXi 4 on this server by using the server to start

  No worries if it is in the list the CD will work just fine (it's so much different from windows, etc.). worst case if some drivers as a network is not detected you may just need to install manually (very rare). =)

• Fujitsu GROUND RX300 S6 - PCIe x 4 D2745 NIC

  Hi all

  I have the above installed with ESX 4-208167 server. It has a x 4 PCIe NIC D2745 INSTALLED. After installing ESX 4 I see the NIC under 'network adapters '. I see in VMware downloads there is a custom installation for Fujitsu, but that is for ESXi, I can't install ESXi.

  Is there a driver I need to install or a configuration setting, I need to change. The NETWORK card is on the HCL.

  Thank you

  HCL, he says he need drivers version 2.1.9.8 igb. IGB = Intel Gigabit Ethernet 2.1.9.8 drivers. You can download the drivers here http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/esx40_intel_82580_dt/ZHcqYmQqKmpidGR3

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• Upgrade to ESXi 5.0 to 5.1 - No Hardware 9 option available when creating a new virtual machine

  Greetings,

  I improved my esxi U1 5.0 to 5.1 and attempted to create a new virtual machine in hopes of using the new version of material 9.

  Using the standard and Custom options I been unable to create a Version 9 hardware VM by default.

  The only option I had was manually upgrade to version 9 once the virtual machine was created.

  Any thought or is - this as planned? I need to reinstall from scratch, my host?

  dhayashi

  To create virtual machines with HW version 9, you can use the Web Client, rather than the windows based Client vSphere.

  André

• HP ML350P g8 have only 100 MB connection on Broadcom BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet Esxi 5.5

  Hello

  I have HP ML350P g8 that has recently settled with Esxi 5.5, but I have 100 MB of connection on BCM5719 Gigabit Ethernet of Broadcom that are connected with Gigabit HP switch.

  Tried to restart the server, but no luck. any idea. It seems that the driver has been installed with custom HP Esxi ISO. See the photos

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  Just decide that, have you already checked the switch physical configuration of the port and the cable network?

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• The upgrade of our guests 5.0 ESXi and vCenter Server 5 and 5.5 Enterprise Plus

  We are the 4 upgrade hosts of ESXi 5 to 5.5

  We add 4 more guests with own ESXi 5.5 installed

  We are also upgrading our vCS 5 in the vCSA 5.5

  Using Enterprise + licenses

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  5. now, I should have all 8 guests registered with my new vCSA.  But the original 4 hosts have yet to be upgraded to ESXi 5.5

  6 move 100 virtual machines to the new 4 hosts running ESXi 5.5 and upgraded the 4 former hosts.

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  Pretty much.

  To make things easier, you can deploy the EGGS for vCSA in your current vCenter (if I remember correctly import an OVA using vCenter allows you to set certain options that should be set to the vCSA shell). After making sure that the vCSA online & configured, you can then install ESXi on all your new hosts, add them to a cluster in the vCSA and put a few trials of virtual machines on there to confirm the network setting is configured correctly. Once it's done (and assuming that the old and the new hosts use the same shared storage) you can stop the vCSA, remove it stock Windows vCS, please write it on one of your new hosts and turn on. You have now two environments (5.0 and 5.5). Next if you disconnect a host from 5.0 vCS (with virtual machines running on it), you can then connect it to the vCSA 5.5. Assuming that the vSwitchs standard networking of the exchanges that are the same name in both environments, you now can vMotion VMs between host 5.0 and 5.5 cluster. At this time, you can repeat with all remaining hosts until everything has been made the transition without service interruption. This will leave a lot of old objects in your old 5.0 vCS, but if that is getting trashed it isn't a big deal.

• VMWare ESXi hypervisor of 5.5 Free Edition on a server explosion 2

  Hi forum,

  I just installed a hypervisor 5.5 ESXi on a HP Server a test socket.

  It works great and I could license with free ESXi license.

  Now, I would like to upgrade an acual ESXi 5.1 Fujitsu server with two explosion (2 x Xeon E5-2630 6 c/12 t) and 64 GB of RAM.

  The server is in eval mode 60 days of ESXi 5.1 because of the 64 GB of Ram. The license hypervisor free ESXi 5.1 only works for 32 GB of Ram, so I couldn't activate it.

  Is it possible to update AND license the machine two struggling with ESXi hypervisor from 5.5?

  My housing a real test-system shows that the license is valid for a power outlet. Can I register two free hypervisor 5.5 licenses on the Fujitsu 2-socket-server or is a license enough.

  In the worst case, it does not work with 5.5

  I only have a single ESXi server, so I need a vCenter and so on.

  At would be in your opinion?

  Thank you very much

  Yes it's quite right.

• Poor ESXi 4 NFS Datastore Performance with various NAS systems

  Hello!

  In testing, I found that I get between a half and a quarter of the e/s inside a guest performance when ESXi 4 systems connect to the using NFS data store if the clients connect to the exact same NFS share.  However, I don't see this effect if the data store using iSCSI or local storage.  This has been reproduced with different systems running ESXi 4 and NAS systems.

  My test is very simple.  I created naked CentOS 5.4 minimum installation (completely updated 07/04/2010) with VMware Tools loaded and the creation time of a file of 256 MB using jj.  I create the file on the root (a VMDK stored in different data warehouses) partition or a directory of the NAS mounted via NFS, directly in the comments

  My crucial test configuration consists of a single test PC (Intel 3.0 GHz Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU with a single Intel 82567LM-3 Gigabit NC and 4 GB RAM) running ESXi 4 connected to a printer HP Procurve 1810 - 24 G, which is connected to a VIA EPIA M700 NAS system running OpenFiler 2.3 with two 1.5 to 7200 tr / MIN SATA disks configured in front of software RAID 1 and dual Gigabit Ethernet NIC.  However, I have reproduced it with different ESXi PC and NAS systems.

  This is a release of one of the tests.  In this case, the VMDK is a store of data stored on the NAS via NFS:

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  root@iridium /sync #; Sync; Sync; time {dd if = / dev/zero of = bs = 1 M count = test.txt 256 sync; sync; sync ;}}
  2560 records in
  2560 records out
  268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 0,524939 seconds, 511 MB/s
  Real 0m38.660s
  user 0m0.000s
  sys 0m0.566s
  root@iridium /# mount/mnt 172.28.19.16:/mnt/InternalRAID1/shares/VirtualMachines
  root@iridium /# cd/mnt
  synchronization of the # mnt root@iridium; Sync; Sync; time {dd if = / dev/zero of = bs = 1 M count = test.txt 256 sync; sync; sync ;}}
  2560 records in
  2560 records out
  268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 8,69747 seconds, 30.9 MB/s
  Real 0m9.060s
  user 0m0.001s
  sys 0m0.659s
  mnt root@iridium#.

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  The first dd is a VMDK stored in a connected via NFS data store.  The dd ends almost immediately, but the synchronization takes nearly 40 seconds!  It's less than 7 MB per second transfer rate: very slow.  Then I get the exact same NFS share that ESXi is used to store data directly in the comments and repeat the DD.  As you can see, the SD is longer and the synchronization takes no real time (as befits a NFS share with active sync), and the whole process takes less than 10 seconds: this is four times faster!

  I don't see these results on data warehouses mounted via NFS.  For example, here is a test on the guest even running from a mounted via iSCSI data store (using the exact same SIN):

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  root@iridium /sync #; Sync; Sync; time {dd if = / dev/zero of = bs = 1 M count = test.txt 256 sync; sync; sync ;}}
  2560 records in
  2560 records out
  268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 1,6913 seconds, 159 MB/s
  Real 0m7.745s
  user 0m0.000s
  sys 0m1.043s

  
  root@iridium /# mount/mnt 172.28.19.16:/mnt/InternalRAID1/shares/VirtualMachines
  root@iridium /# cd/mnt
  synchronization of the # mnt root@iridium; Sync; Sync; time {dd if = / dev/zero of = bs = 1 M count = test.txt 256 sync; sync; sync ;}}
  2560 records in
  2560 records out
  268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 8,66534 seconds, 31.0 MB/s
  Real 0m9.081s
  user 0m0.001s
  sys 0m0.794s
  mnt root@iridium#.

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  And the same comments linking internal SATA drive of the PC ESXi:

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  root@iridium /sync #; Sync; Sync; time {dd if = / dev/zero of = bs = 1 M count = test.txt 256 sync; sync; sync ;}}
  2560 records in
  2560 records out
  268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 6,77451 seconds, 39.6 Mbps
  Real 0m7.631s
  user 0m0.002s
  sys 0m0.751s
  root@iridium /# mount/mnt 172.28.19.16:/mnt/InternalRAID1/shares/VirtualMachines
  root@iridium /# cd/mnt
  synchronization of the # mnt root@iridium; Sync; Sync; time {dd if = / dev/zero of = bs = 1 M count = test.txt 256 sync; sync; sync ;}}
  2560 records in
  2560 records out
  268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 8,90374 seconds, 30.1 MB/s
  Real 0m9.208s
  user 0m0.001s
  sys 0m0.329s
  mnt root@iridium#.

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  As you can see, the performance of NFS direct comments for each of the three are very consistent.  ISCSI and the performance of the store local data disk are both a bit better than that - as I expect.  But the mounted via NFS data store gets only a fraction of the perfomance of the any of them.  Obviously, something is wrong.

  I was able to reproduce this effect with an Iomega Ix4 - 200 d as well.  The difference is not as dramatic, butalways important and consistent.  Here is a test of a guest of CentOS using a VMDK stored in a data store provided by an Ix4 - 200 d via NFS:-.

  root@palladium /sync #; Sync; Sync; time {dd if = / dev/zero of = bs = 1 M count = test.txt 256 sync; sync; sync ;}}
  2560 records in
  2560 records out
  268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 11,1253 seconds, 24.1 Mbps
  Real 0m18.350s
  user 0m0.006s
  sys 0m2.687s
  root@palladium /# mount/mnt 172.20.19.1:/nfs/VirtualMachines
  root@palladium /# cd/mnt
  synchronization of the # mnt root@Palladium; Sync; Sync; time {dd if = / dev/zero of = bs = 1 M count = test.txt 256 sync; sync; sync ;}}
  2560 records in
  2560 records out
  268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 9,91849 seconds, 27.1 MB/s
  Real 0m10.088s
  user 0m0.002s
  sys 0m2.147s root@palladium mnt-#.

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  Once more, the direct NFS mount gives very consistent results.  But using the diskette provided by ESXi on a mounted NFS datastore gives still worse results.  They are not as terrible as OpenFiler test results, but they are constantly between 60% and 100% longer.

  Why is this?  What I've read, NFS performace is supposed to be within a few percent of the iSCSI performance, and yet I see between 60% and 400% worse performance.  And this isn't a case of the SIN is not able to provide correct NFS performance.  When I connect to the NAS via NFS directly inside the guest, I see much better than when ESXi connects to the same NAS (the same proportion!) via NFS.

  The configuration of ESXi (network and network cards) is 100% stock.  There is no VLAN in place, etc., and ESXi system has only one

  Single Gigabit adapter.  It is certainly not optimal, but it doesn't seem to me to be able to explain why a virtualized guest is able to get a lot better performance NFS as ESXi itself to the same NAS.  After all, they both use the same exact suboptimal network configuration...

  Thank you very much for your help.  I would be grateful any idea or advice, you might be able to give me.

  Hi all

  It is very definitely a performance O_Sync problem. It is well known that NFS VMware shops still use O_Sync for writes little matter what share put for a default value. VMware uses a custom file locking system so you really can't compare it to a normal NFS share connection to a different NFS client.

  I have validated that the performance will be good if you have an SSD cache or storage target with enough reliable battery backup.

  http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/running-ZFS-over-NFS-as-a-VMware-store

  Kind regards

  Mike

  vExpert 2009

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