Looks like a prime situation for Murphy. My guess is you've walked into a situation that has had a fair amount of neglect for quite a while... Good luck!
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:58 AM, James Rankin <kz2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > My ESXi education continues....cheers > > Now I find the KVM is faulty. It's one of those days! > > On 21 September 2010 13:49, Martin Blackstone <mblackst...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Connect a serial cable to it, ssh in (use Putty, its free) and run >> ifconfig. You should get something like this: >> >> >> >> vswif0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:4E:D4:28 >> >> inet addr:172.16.15.21 Bcast:172.16.15.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 >> >> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 >> >> RX packets:47793949 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >> >> TX packets:30426544 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >> >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 >> >> RX bytes:38276131304 (35.6 GiB) TX bytes:24724689335 (23.0 GiB) >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] >> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:42 AM >> >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Re: ESXi fun >> >> >> >> I've spotted another DL360 with a couple of spare drive bays that is >> running ESXi as well. I'm just trying to find the IP address because it >> doesn't appear to be in DNS (there is some serious process implementation >> needing doing at this place). >> >> On 21 September 2010 13:39, Martin Blackstone <mblackst...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> I loves me some NetApp!! >> >> >> >> Any chance you have a spare server you could slap the disks in? >> >> >> >> *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] >> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:29 AM >> >> >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Re: ESXi fun >> >> >> >> Local disks only. No shared storage sucks. Not long now though - NetApp is >> being built as we speak. >> >> On 21 September 2010 13:25, Martin Blackstone <mblackst...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> How is your VM storage attached? >> >> Local disk, NFS, iSCSI, FC? >> >> >> >> *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] >> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:01 AM >> >> >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Re: ESXi fun >> >> >> >> Would it see the disk OK even if it hasn't been configured in the HP ACU? >> I'm an ESXi novice and not sure how ESXi actually picks up logical disks >> >> On 21 September 2010 05:59, Level Five - List <li...@levelfive.us> wrote: >> >> You know you could just put the drive in a working esxi system and mount >> the >> datastore and files ... >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] >> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 4:55 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: RE: ESXi fun >> >> True Love! >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 3:40 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: ESXi fun >> >> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Damien Solodow >> <damien.solo...@harrison.edu> wrote: >> >> There's a big difference between half dead and all dead. Half dead >> >> is half alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually >> >> only one thing you can do. >> > >> > Go through his pockets looking for loose change? >> >> Ding ding ding! Congratulations! 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I am not able >> rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such >> a question." >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> > > > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin