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!   Johnny, tell him what's he's won...
>>
>> -- Ben
>>
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> rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such
> a question."
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