ESXi installation process and storage CF

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• With the help of ESXi 5.5 with storage controller HP DL120 Gen9 (HP H240 FIO active host Bus Adapter)

  Hi guys, I'm new to virtualization, but I couldn't find a solution for this. Feel free to correct my text because I'm not very experienced with this sort of thing.

  Background: I have a couple of servers and the end of the game will be left to create a San and run other systems within this SAN (providing network-level RAID). While in one data center I could decides to make a RAID at the level of the material in addition to RAID level network, now I want to save money on storage for this test so I want to do simple split disks (RAID/JBOD) at the hardware level. Because of the OS, we will virtualize later we use ESXi 5.5, 6.0 not.

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  So I put the 2 servers (HP ProLiant DL120 Gen9 E5-2630v3 8 GB-R H240 8SFF 550W PS entry Server (777425-B21)) and I went into the BIOS/CMOS settings mode AHCI Mode smart-table (I don't remember the wording of it, I'm not in front of the machine). Then I went in the smart supply and went to the intelligent storage administrator part and I had to select "disable the RAID", or something like that. After the reboot, I went back and now my two drives appear as "Unassigned" which seemed reasonable to me. I tried to see if I could 'assign' but in mode no RAID, there is no means to assign what whatsoever because the paintings exist not primarily in mode non-RAID. I was not sure if there is a way to "initialize" them or something like that, but I couldn't find the parameters like this. My hope was that a BONE would now see these drives natively as a simple readers without the layer of abstraction to a storage controller.

  This does not work and when I run ESXi 5.5 from a USB it will boot, but when it gets to the part where you are supposed to select the ESXi installation disc on it only shows the USB itself and none of my SSD.

  Does anyone know how to configure the adapter HBA H240 with ESXi 5.5? I could really use some help from someone who has done this before.

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  I thought her guy after a few hours of playing with it. I had to pull on the site of HP storage controller driver and group with the ISO (I used experience before VMware: ESXi-Customizer). After having done that, I am sure that AHCI (instead of HP Dynamic Smart Array RAID) has been activated (in the configuration of the BIOS) and disabled by RAID in the HPSSA (intelligent storage administrator). Then, I could see the SSD in the ESXi 5.5.

  Jürgen Vervoort, ESXi 5.5 does not recognize the SSD when I had the active RAID and configured 1 table for each disk (make an effective JBOD). I also tried a single RAID 0 array with two SSDS inside and ESXi does not always detect them. I think that the underlying issue is that the driver is not supported natively by 5.5 ESXi. Right now I'm sure that if I went and configured RAID this would work because the storage controller driver is loaded in ESXi.

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• the upgrade to esxi 4.1 and 5.1

  Hello

  I'll be in place upgrade of a host of 4.1 to 5.1 group

  I intend to use using kickstart

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• Operation of ESXi installation failed

  Hi guys,.

  For a new installation of ESXi 5.1, the storage team gave a LUN to start 10 GB of our EMC symmetrix storage box. When I try to install the ESXi by selecting the LUN to 10 GB I get this error below.

  This program has encountered an error:

  (Use the arrows to schoo)

  Error (see the log for more information)

  vmkfstools failed with the message: create fs deviceName: "devices/vmfs / '.

  / disks/naa. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:8', fsShortName: 'vfat ',.

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  ' / vmfs/devices/drives/naa. "is not a valid absolute or relative path

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  vmkfstools - C [vmfs3 | vmfs5] / vmfs/devices/disks/naa... or,

  ' vmkfstools - C [vmfs3 | vmfs5].

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  Error: no such file or directory

  A doubt, is that the storage team gave ID LUN 1. I heard that the boot LUN must be 0. Will this be a problem? And they have already set up multiple paths to the storage array. Which will cause a problem?

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• ESXi & Installer hangs when starting

  Hello

  I looked around and looked for my problem-related entries in the forum, but I couldn't find anything...

  Here is my problem:

  * New server Fujitsu TX200 S7:

  2 x Xeon CPU / 64GByte = 16GByte RAM 4 x / 4 x SAS HDD 600GByte / RAID LSI Ctr RAID0/1/5/6/10/50/60 mit FBU - Erw. + Modul TFM / DVD - RW / embeddet USB Device of the UFM

  I experienced enormous problems to start with the installer of vmware esxi 5.1 (or 5.0) CD ROM or esxi host 5.1.

  What works with the above server:

  * Install it is an os windows 2012 std server on the raid system is executed without absolutely no problems

  Start the success of server std 2012 win every time.

  * Setup a esxi host 5.1 on the server, but only subsequently install Fujitsu «server see DVD»

  What does NOT work with the above server: (every time, never had a successful boot)

  Booting with the esxi 5.0 installation CD original fujitsu - fails!

  * Start with one (from vmware) downloaded fails - esxi 5.1 installation CD!

  * Start with one (from fujitsu) downloaded fails - esxi 5.1 installation CD!

  Start a successuflly by the Fujitsu 'Start Server CD' installed esxi host 5.1 on this server - fails!

  * Test: start without lsi sas controller (without any disk hard sas) - the server starts faster (without the lsi raid controller firmware)-, but fails.

  * Test: starting with half of the installed RAM - fails!

  The symptoms of what happens during startup and cannot:

  * First step of booting (bundle of progress on the top of the screen) will run successfully

  * During the first seconds of the second stage (starting ESXi Kernel, beam of progress is displayed on the bottom of the screen), the computer did a hard-reset and the startup process begins once more.

  So I don't know what I could do.

  Because all windows system works perfectly, I would exclude a hardware error

  On the other side, Fujitsu specifies this server with this equipment compatible with esxi, then I do not understand that no esxi (Installer) will be initialize to top.

  So, what could be the reason why the software does not start?

  How can I know the reason why the systems do not initialize-go to top?

  Thank you very much for any suspicion solve my problem!

  What about Tom

  the firmware all is patched up?

  There might be something that win2012 is ok with it the flaws esxi hypervisor

• Isolate the vMotion and storage traffic?

  We use ESXi 5.1 using two physical switches for management traffic and two physical switches for VM and storage vMotion traffic. We use a DVSwitch with VLANS separated for VMs (125), storage (126) and vMotion traffic (127). My question is really about the physical switch setting. I have installation of VLANs, 125, 126 and 127 on my main switch with each of them having a layer 3 interface. I think that only the network of the VM (vlan 125) needs a layer 3 interface. In other words, my VLAN storage and vMotion is not routable by removing the 3 layer interface.

  Does this sound correct?

  Another twist, I have a Juniper switch where all layer 3 interfaces are defined. It is connected to 4 switches in the rear of my IBM Bladecenter. Two of these switches are Cisco 1 GB switches that carry all traffic to the management through a vSwitch network. The other two switches are BNT 10 GB switches that carry traffic for Storage vMotion and VMs. Of course, it's a network connection, because it carries several VLANS.

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  Well, you need your storage system accessible on these IP addresses by the systems for the management of the other subnets or such? You already have all traffic from subnet inter between iSCSI and other networks? If this isn't the case, then there is no need to have routable iSCSI network.

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• Random virtual machines after vMotion and Storage vMotion network loss

  Hi all -

  I have a couple of tickets open with VMware and our supplier of SAN, EqualLogic, on this issue.  Since the configuration of our production and DMZ clusters we noticed that the virtual machines will sometimes drop network connectivity after a successful vMotion and Storage vMotion.  Sometimes, although much less frequently, virtual machines also spontaneously lose network overnight.  What happened only a few times.  The strange thing is that the other guests on the VM host are fine - they lose any network.  Actually, I can do no more than 3 computers virtual host to another, and 2 of 3 can switch correctly, so that we lose the network.  The work around?  Simply 'disconnect' from the virtual NETWORK card 'reconnect' and the virtual machine will start the return packets.  I can also switch the VM troubled return to the host State and it will find the network.  I can it reboot and re - win network.  I can re - install the virtual card completely, and she re - win network.

  VMware has seen a lot of mistakes of SAN in our log files in order to update us our SAN firmware to the latest version.  That seems to have fixed that but we still have the issue.  Here are some of the specifications - all environments are virtually identical except for memory:

  Of PowerEdge R810

  NICs Broadcom 5709

  EqualLogic SAN running 5.0.5 F/W

  We use frames.  ESXi is fully patched.  I haven't seen a boss or not, it is only some guest operating system that loses the network, but we are a Windows environment.

  When a virtual machine loses the network, we can not:

  • Ping to it
    
  • Ping it
    
  • Ping him at the virtual machines on the same host or vSwitch
    
  • Ping outside our network
    
  • resolve DNS, etc..
    

  I followed some KBs VMware without success, including:

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US & cmd = displayKC & externalId = 1003839
  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC & externalId = 1002811 (port security is not enabled)

  -All the VMware tools have been updated to the latest version correct and corresponds to the ESXi host
  -Connected to the service ESXi console, I cannot ping the VM problem by name of host or IP address, but I can ping do not affected by the issue of the OTHER virtual machines.  I can also pings the service console.
  -Connected to the troubled virtual machine itself, I cannot ping other virtual machines, I can't resolve host names, I cannot ping by IP.  The machine virtual CAN ping itself by IP, but not hostname.  I cannot ping other virtual computers on the same virtual switch or network by either IP or host name.  I can't ping the vSwitch network management.
  -All vSwitches are configured in the same way and the same.
  -Notify the switches is set to yes
  -There are a lot of available virtual ports
  -We tried the E1000 and VMXNET virtual cards with no difference.
  -All cards are configured to negotiate, but we tried to force individuals speeds as well as with no difference

  I appreciate your help.  I have problems getting anywhere on this issue with the sellers.

  wkucardinal wrote:

  Still having the issue...

  Sometimes, it might be useful to really check that all uplinks VMNIC for all VLAN does work them. Try this is to create a new portgroup on the vSwitch used by your virtual machines on the host of the first, put a test VM on the portgroup, then go into the NIC teaming policy from the new portgroup and select "Override switch command failover."

  Then down vmnic all except one in unused, then only a single VMNIC is active. Then set the portgroup VLAN to a production of VLAN and try to see if we could ping some expected from the different addresses. If it works, then move VMNIC work until unused and move up to another asset. Try again, and this for all the vmnic. If it works, then you have verified that the configuration of VLANS and other settings are correct on the physical switch in the face of this host ports.

  If several VLANs, repeat the process for all other productions VLAN. Then repeat on the other hosts.

  While that may take some time, occurs if everything is properly configured on the physical switches. When occurs a vMotion virtual machine gets a new "Port code" and is assigned to a new outgoing VMNIC. If there is an error of configuration on one or more physical ports that might seem random, but may still happen on VLAN x on y VMNIC. Given that Port ID policy you use indeed spread randomly VMs on the vmnic these problems may be difficult to diagnose. (Make a disconnection of the VM vNIC gives the virtual machine a new port-ID, which it will move to a new outgoing VMNIC, which might seem to solve the problem.)