RE: ESXi and an HP switch

[Joseph L. Casale]

>That was it. I looked at the properties of the management port group,
>and it had not inherited the IP HASH setting. Once I manually set
>that, it worked.
>
>I'm setting up iSCSI connections and etc. now.
>
>Thank you!

No problem,
jlc
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Re: ESXi and an HP switch

[Kurt Buff]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:53 AM, Joseph L. Casale
 wrote:
>>> Port groups can override vswitch
>>> config, I am guessing your pg that the vmk port resides in is not 
>>> inheriting the
>>> config you expect...
>>
>> Not sure what you mean by this.
>
> Look at your vSwitch properties, you will see in Configuration: a vSwitch and 
> one or
> more Port Groups. They all have the same options as the vSwitch, so if any are
> enabled/defined, it overrides the vSwitch.
>
>> Thanks for walking through this with me, 'tis much appreciated.
>
> No problem,
> jlc

That was it. I looked at the properties of the management port group,
and it had not inherited the IP HASH setting. Once I manually set
that, it worked.

I'm setting up iSCSI connections and etc. now.

Thank you!

Kurt

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RE: ESXi and an HP switch

[Joseph L. Casale]

>> Port groups can override vswitch
>> config, I am guessing your pg that the vmk port resides in is not inheriting 
>> the
>> config you expect...
>
> Not sure what you mean by this.

Look at your vSwitch properties, you will see in Configuration: a vSwitch and 
one or
more Port Groups. They all have the same options as the vSwitch, so if any are
enabled/defined, it overrides the vSwitch.

> Thanks for walking through this with me, 'tis much appreciated.

No problem,
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Re: ESXi and an HP switch

[Kurt Buff]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Joseph L. Casale
 wrote:
>>I'm not sure it does, but I'll try setting the duplex/speed statically
>>on the switch and server and see if that gets me anywhere.
>
> It is in the vmware NIC config where I had to set it.

First thing tomorrow, I'll try that and let you know.

>>Below are two configs of the switch - one that has trunking but
>>doesn't work, and the other that doesn't have trunking but does work -
>>the configuration of the server is the same for each - a single
>>vswitch with the management network and VM network on it. This machine
>>has no local storage, it's booting from flash, so there are no VMs
>>yet. Just the four active NICs set up with teaming based on IP HASH.
>
> So you loose connectivity when you trunk, can you describe the complete
> Networking topology setup,

It's the switch and the server, with nothing attached to the other
than the 4 cables attached to the server to connect it to the switch.
I've got one machine on VLAN 111 to test layer3 connectivity, and
nothing else attached anywhere.

> If you haven't any guests, I assume you are only
> attempting to base connectivity off the vmk port.

Correct.

> Port groups can override vswitch
> config, I am guessing your pg that the vmk port resides in is not inheriting 
> the
> config you expect...

Not sure what you mean by this.

> Other things to check:
>
> Whats your Security settings on the vswitch (pg's)?

Default - haven't touched anything yet.

> Its possible you have a setting on the physical switch which is problematic, 
> enable
> debug in a separate console and enable the trunk and see what happens.

That's reasonable - I'm configuring the switch via the serial port -
but the entire config for the switch is as you've seen. As I
mentioned, it's the shelf spare, which I'm using for the configuration
test bed.

I'll reply again tomorrow when I know more.

Thanks for walking through this with me, 'tis much appreciated.

Kurt

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RE: ESXi and an HP switch

[Joseph L. Casale]

>I'm not sure it does, but I'll try setting the duplex/speed statically
>on the switch and server and see if that gets me anywhere.

It is in the vmware NIC config where I had to set it.

>Below are two configs of the switch - one that has trunking but
>doesn't work, and the other that doesn't have trunking but does work -
>the configuration of the server is the same for each - a single
>vswitch with the management network and VM network on it. This machine
>has no local storage, it's booting from flash, so there are no VMs
>yet. Just the four active NICs set up with teaming based on IP HASH.

So you loose connectivity when you trunk, can you describe the complete
Networking topology setup, If you haven't any guests, I assume you are only
attempting to base connectivity off the vmk port. Port groups can override 
vswitch
config, I am guessing your pg that the vmk port resides in is not inheriting the
config you expect...

Other things to check:

Whats your Security settings on the vswitch (pg's)?

Its possible you have a setting on the physical switch which is problematic, 
enable
debug in a separate console and enable the trunk and see what happens.

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Re: ESXi and an HP switch

[Kurt Buff]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Joseph L. Casale
 wrote:
>> went back to the article linked above, and set up NIC teaming with IP
>>HASH and made sure that all four NICs were active, then tried setting
>>up the trunk again, and again had no success.
>>
>>Does anyone have thoughts regarding what I might be missing?
>
> I'm looking at two esxi servers done this very way with an HP as well.
>
> The Route based on IP hash with "trunk" not LACP mode is well doc'ed for
> procurves. I then have all the exposed vlans tagged on the HP. Finally, the
> port groups are each tagged into their respective vlan.
>
> Each server has the vmk port in its own vswitch tagged into the esxi mgmt
> vlan as well. So mgmt, storage, various production traffic is all segmented.
>
> One thing I had to do was set the duplex on all the interfaces to G/full. No
> matter the vendor, Intel and Broadcoms all needed this...
>
> hth,
> jlc

I'm not sure it does, but I'll try setting the duplex/speed statically
on the switch and server and see if that gets me anywhere.

Definitely trk1 is in trunk (non-LACP) mode. This is the initial
config of this server, and the switch it's being configured against is
my shelf spare - just three VLANs, currently - VLANs 1, 110 and 111.

VLAN 110 is the same number as my server VLAN in production
VLAN 111 is to test connectivity from a different subnet, so it won't
be tagged to trk1
VLAN 1 is the default VLAN, and I'm keeping everything out of it, and
it's the native VLAN.

Below are two configs of the switch - one that has trunking but
doesn't work, and the other that doesn't have trunking but does work -
the configuration of the server is the same for each - a single
vswitch with the management network and VM network on it. This machine
has no local storage, it's booting from flash, so there are no VMs
yet. Just the four active NICs set up with teaming based on IP HASH.

Kurt

--Begin non-working trunked config--
hostname "ProCurve Switch 3400cl-48G"
interface 1
   no lacp
exit
interface 2
   no lacp
exit
interface 3
   no lacp
exit
interface 4
   no lacp
exit
trunk 1-4 Trk1 Trunk
ip routing
snmp-server community "public" Unrestricted
vlan 1
   name "DEFAULT_VLAN"
   ip address dhcp-bootp
   no untagged 5-48,Trk1
   exit
vlan 110
   name "VLAN110"
   untagged 5-17,19-48
   ip address 192.168.10.1 255.255.255.0
   tagged Trk1
   exit
vlan 111
   name "VLAN111"
   untagged 18
   ip address 67.50.118.1 255.255.255.0
   exit
spanning-tree Trk1 priority 4
--End non-working trunked config--

--Begin working non-trunked config--
hostname "ProCurve Switch 3400cl-48G"
ip routing
snmp-server community "public" Unrestricted
vlan 1
   name "DEFAULT_VLAN"
   untagged 1-4
   ip address dhcp-bootp
   no untagged 5-48
   exit
vlan 110
   name "VLAN110"
   untagged 5-17,19-48
   ip address 192.168.10.1 255.255.255.0
   tagged 1-4
   exit
vlan 111
   name "VLAN111"
   untagged 18
   ip address 192.168.11.1 255.255.255.0
   exit
--End working non-trunked config--

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RE: ESXi and an HP switch

[Joseph L. Casale]

> went back to the article linked above, and set up NIC teaming with IP
>HASH and made sure that all four NICs were active, then tried setting
>up the trunk again, and again had no success.
>
>Does anyone have thoughts regarding what I might be missing?

I'm looking at two esxi servers done this very way with an HP as well.

The Route based on IP hash with "trunk" not LACP mode is well doc'ed for
procurves. I then have all the exposed vlans tagged on the HP. Finally, the
port groups are each tagged into their respective vlan.

Each server has the vmk port in its own vswitch tagged into the esxi mgmt
vlan as well. So mgmt, storage, various production traffic is all segmented.

One thing I had to do was set the duplex on all the interfaces to G/full. No
matter the vendor, Intel and Broadcoms all needed this...

hth,
jlc
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Re: ESXi and External USB HDD

[John Cook]

Currently (last time I checked) there was only 1 USB HD on their HCL. Absurd, I 
just went through this about a month ago.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership for Strong Families

From: Jimmy Tran [mailto:jt...@teachtci.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12:08 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues 
Subject: ESXi and External USB HDD

I think I already know the answer to this but I wanted to just verify.  Is 
there a way I can connect an external usb HD to a ESXi 5.0 host and use that to 
backup the vmdk files?  My Google searches show the answer as no, but just want 
to confirm.

Thanks,

Jimmy

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Re: ESXi 4 Host access

[Jeff Bunting]

Any NIC teaming going on?

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1022751


I'd second Todd's suggestion about a traceroute.

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Dave Vantine  wrote:

> See in line
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Jeff Bunting wrote:
>
>> You didn't explicitly say, is the admin on the other side using the IP
>> address to ping?   I'd avoid names for the time being to absolutely rule
>> out a DNS problem.  (incorrect A record on the other side could potentially
>> cause this behavior)
>>
>> # yes pinging by IP
>>
>> Can you ping their workstation by IP from the ESX host on your side?
>>
>> # I am not able to ping any machines on there subnet from the host on my
>> subnet
>> Any sort of VPN rule or static route in place for the host address that
>> might be redirecting?
>>
>> I can not find any rule or route that would limit this single IP.
>>
>> Can you remote into a workstation on the other side of the VPN and test
>> yourself?
>>
>> # I can open an RDP connection to a machine in there subnet and can ping
>> any device on my subnet except the ESXi host
>>
> Jeff
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Dave Vantine  wrote:
>>
>>> If we assume that my subnet is 192.168.1.0/24. The ESXi host is
>>> 192.168.1.10 and the gateway has been set to 192.168.1.1 and the subnet is
>>> 255.255.255.0.
>>>
>>> The gateway and subnet settings are the same as any of the other
>>> machines in my local subnet.
>>>
>>> I created a DNS record for the host so any machine on this subnet can
>>> ping the machine either by IP or hostname and can connect to it via vSphere
>>> client.
>>>
>>> It is the machines in the branch office which are on a different subnets
>>> e.g. 192.168.100.0/24 which are not able to ping the host or connect
>>> with vSphere though they are able to ping all other machines/devices on my
>>> subnet.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Richard Stovall wrote:
>>>
 What is the default gateway on the ESXi server's management NIC?  Is it
 the same as the other machines on your subnet?


 On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Dave Vantine wrote:

> I am a VMware newbie and have a ESXi host running on my local subnet.
> I am able to ping this machine by IP and  can access this machine with the
> Vsphere client to manage the guest on this subnet.
>
> I want to give access to the host to an administrator located at our
> branch office on a different subnet. We have a site to site vpn and all 
> the
> other machines on the two subnet are pingable except for the ESXi host.
> When you try to ping the host or run a Vsphere client from the branch
> subnet there is no response. I know for certain that there is nothing
> blocking the traffic between the subnets so there must be something within
> the ESXi host that is only allowing IP's on the local subnet to 
> communicate
> with it. Any idea on how I can get the Vsphere client on the remote networ
> to be able to connect?
>
> --
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Re: ESXi 4 Host access

[Kurt Buff]

On the troublesome machine, open up a command prompt and type in
'telnet' and press enter, then type 'set localecho' and press enter -
this will turn on local echo, which might be useful in this case.

Then type 'o hostname' or 'o ipaddress' and press enter.

What happens?

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 13:06, Dave Vantine  wrote:
> See in line
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Jeff Bunting  wrote:
>>
>> You didn't explicitly say, is the admin on the other side using the IP
>> address to ping?   I'd avoid names for the time being to absolutely rule out
>> a DNS problem.  (incorrect A record on the other side could potentially
>> cause this behavior)
>>
>> # yes pinging by IP
>>
>> Can you ping their workstation by IP from the ESX host on your side?
>>
>> # I am not able to ping any machines on there subnet from the host on my
>> subnet
>> Any sort of VPN rule or static route in place for the host address that
>> might be redirecting?
>>
>> I can not find any rule or route that would limit this single IP.
>>
>> Can you remote into a workstation on the other side of the VPN and test
>> yourself?
>>
>> # I can open an RDP connection to a machine in there subnet and can ping
>> any device on my subnet except the ESXi host
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Dave Vantine  wrote:
>>>
>>> If we assume that my subnet is 192.168.1.0/24. The ESXi host is
>>> 192.168.1.10 and the gateway has been set to 192.168.1.1 and the subnet is
>>> 255.255.255.0.
>>>
>>> The gateway and subnet settings are the same as any of the other machines
>>> in my local subnet.
>>>
>>> I created a DNS record for the host so any machine on this subnet can
>>> ping the machine either by IP or hostname and can connect to it via vSphere
>>> client.
>>>
>>> It is the machines in the branch office which are on a different subnets
>>> e.g. 192.168.100.0/24 which are not able to ping the host or connect with
>>> vSphere though they are able to ping all other machines/devices on my
>>> subnet.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Richard Stovall 
>>> wrote:

 What is the default gateway on the ESXi server's management NIC?  Is it
 the same as the other machines on your subnet?


 On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Dave Vantine 
 wrote:
>
> I am a VMware newbie and have a ESXi host running on my local subnet. I
> am able to ping this machine by IP and  can access this machine with the
> Vsphere client to manage the guest on this subnet.
>
> I want to give access to the host to an administrator located at our
> branch office on a different subnet. We have a site to site vpn and all 
> the
> other machines on the two subnet are pingable except for the ESXi host. 
> When
> you try to ping the host or run a Vsphere client from the branch subnet
> there is no response. I know for certain that there is nothing blocking 
> the
> traffic between the subnets so there must be something within the ESXi 
> host
> that is only allowing IP's on the local subnet to communicate with it. Any
> idea on how I can get the Vsphere client on the remote networ to be able 
> to
> connect?
>
> --
> Thanks In Advance
> Dave Vantine
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Re: ESXi 4 Host access

[Todd Lemmiksoo]

Do a tracert from the workstation on the their subnet and see where it
stops.

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Dave Vantine  wrote:

> See in line
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Jeff Bunting wrote:
>
>> You didn't explicitly say, is the admin on the other side using the IP
>> address to ping?   I'd avoid names for the time being to absolutely rule
>> out a DNS problem.  (incorrect A record on the other side could potentially
>> cause this behavior)
>>
>> # yes pinging by IP
>>
>> Can you ping their workstation by IP from the ESX host on your side?
>>
>> # I am not able to ping any machines on there subnet from the host on my
>> subnet
>> Any sort of VPN rule or static route in place for the host address that
>> might be redirecting?
>>
>> I can not find any rule or route that would limit this single IP.
>>
>> Can you remote into a workstation on the other side of the VPN and test
>> yourself?
>>
>> # I can open an RDP connection to a machine in there subnet and can ping
>> any device on my subnet except the ESXi host
>>
> Jeff
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Dave Vantine  wrote:
>>
>>> If we assume that my subnet is 192.168.1.0/24. The ESXi host is
>>> 192.168.1.10 and the gateway has been set to 192.168.1.1 and the subnet is
>>> 255.255.255.0.
>>>
>>> The gateway and subnet settings are the same as any of the other
>>> machines in my local subnet.
>>>
>>> I created a DNS record for the host so any machine on this subnet can
>>> ping the machine either by IP or hostname and can connect to it via vSphere
>>> client.
>>>
>>> It is the machines in the branch office which are on a different subnets
>>> e.g. 192.168.100.0/24 which are not able to ping the host or connect
>>> with vSphere though they are able to ping all other machines/devices on my
>>> subnet.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Richard Stovall wrote:
>>>
 What is the default gateway on the ESXi server's management NIC?  Is it
 the same as the other machines on your subnet?


 On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Dave Vantine wrote:

> I am a VMware newbie and have a ESXi host running on my local subnet.
> I am able to ping this machine by IP and  can access this machine with the
> Vsphere client to manage the guest on this subnet.
>
> I want to give access to the host to an administrator located at our
> branch office on a different subnet. We have a site to site vpn and all 
> the
> other machines on the two subnet are pingable except for the ESXi host.
> When you try to ping the host or run a Vsphere client from the branch
> subnet there is no response. I know for certain that there is nothing
> blocking the traffic between the subnets so there must be something within
> the ESXi host that is only allowing IP's on the local subnet to 
> communicate
> with it. Any idea on how I can get the Vsphere client on the remote networ
> to be able to connect?
>
> --
> Thanks In Advance
> Dave Vantine
>
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Re: ESXi 4 Host access

[Dave Vantine]

See in line

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Jeff Bunting  wrote:

> You didn't explicitly say, is the admin on the other side using the IP
> address to ping?   I'd avoid names for the time being to absolutely rule
> out a DNS problem.  (incorrect A record on the other side could potentially
> cause this behavior)
>
> # yes pinging by IP
>
> Can you ping their workstation by IP from the ESX host on your side?
>
> # I am not able to ping any machines on there subnet from the host on my
> subnet
> Any sort of VPN rule or static route in place for the host address that
> might be redirecting?
>
> I can not find any rule or route that would limit this single IP.
>
> Can you remote into a workstation on the other side of the VPN and test
> yourself?
>
> # I can open an RDP connection to a machine in there subnet and can ping
> any device on my subnet except the ESXi host
>
Jeff
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Dave Vantine  wrote:
>
>> If we assume that my subnet is 192.168.1.0/24. The ESXi host is
>> 192.168.1.10 and the gateway has been set to 192.168.1.1 and the subnet is
>> 255.255.255.0.
>>
>> The gateway and subnet settings are the same as any of the other machines
>> in my local subnet.
>>
>> I created a DNS record for the host so any machine on this subnet can
>> ping the machine either by IP or hostname and can connect to it via vSphere
>> client.
>>
>> It is the machines in the branch office which are on a different subnets
>> e.g. 192.168.100.0/24 which are not able to ping the host or connect
>> with vSphere though they are able to ping all other machines/devices on my
>> subnet.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Richard Stovall wrote:
>>
>>> What is the default gateway on the ESXi server's management NIC?  Is it
>>> the same as the other machines on your subnet?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Dave Vantine wrote:
>>>
 I am a VMware newbie and have a ESXi host running on my local subnet. I
 am able to ping this machine by IP and  can access this machine with the
 Vsphere client to manage the guest on this subnet.

 I want to give access to the host to an administrator located at our
 branch office on a different subnet. We have a site to site vpn and all the
 other machines on the two subnet are pingable except for the ESXi host.
 When you try to ping the host or run a Vsphere client from the branch
 subnet there is no response. I know for certain that there is nothing
 blocking the traffic between the subnets so there must be something within
 the ESXi host that is only allowing IP's on the local subnet to communicate
 with it. Any idea on how I can get the Vsphere client on the remote networ
 to be able to connect?

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Re: ESXi 4 Host access

[Jeff Bunting]

You didn't explicitly say, is the admin on the other side using the IP
address to ping?   I'd avoid names for the time being to absolutely rule
out a DNS problem.  (incorrect A record on the other side could potentially
cause this behavior)

Can you ping their workstation by IP from the ESX host on your side?

Any sort of VPN rule or static route in place for the host address that
might be redirecting?

Can you remote into a workstation on the other side of the VPN and test
yourself?

Jeff

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Dave Vantine  wrote:

> If we assume that my subnet is 192.168.1.0/24. The ESXi host is
> 192.168.1.10 and the gateway has been set to 192.168.1.1 and the subnet is
> 255.255.255.0.
>
> The gateway and subnet settings are the same as any of the other machines
> in my local subnet.
>
> I created a DNS record for the host so any machine on this subnet can ping
> the machine either by IP or hostname and can connect to it via vSphere
> client.
>
> It is the machines in the branch office which are on a different subnets
> e.g. 192.168.100.0/24 which are not able to ping the host or connect with
> vSphere though they are able to ping all other machines/devices on my
> subnet.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Richard Stovall  wrote:
>
>> What is the default gateway on the ESXi server's management NIC?  Is it
>> the same as the other machines on your subnet?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Dave Vantine  wrote:
>>
>>> I am a VMware newbie and have a ESXi host running on my local subnet. I
>>> am able to ping this machine by IP and  can access this machine with the
>>> Vsphere client to manage the guest on this subnet.
>>>
>>> I want to give access to the host to an administrator located at our
>>> branch office on a different subnet. We have a site to site vpn and all the
>>> other machines on the two subnet are pingable except for the ESXi host.
>>> When you try to ping the host or run a Vsphere client from the branch
>>> subnet there is no response. I know for certain that there is nothing
>>> blocking the traffic between the subnets so there must be something within
>>> the ESXi host that is only allowing IP's on the local subnet to communicate
>>> with it. Any idea on how I can get the Vsphere client on the remote networ
>>> to be able to connect?
>>>
>>> --
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Re: ESXi 4 Host access

[Michael Leone]

A vSphere client connects to a vCenter or ESX(i) server over HTTPS,
port 443. If there is no firewall blocking that port, or at least a
rule allowing that type of traffic to the host in question, then it
sounds like what the others have said, a gateway issue. I would also
make sure that there are A and PTR records in DNS for all machines in
question (I'm a stickler for every machine having proper
forward/reverse DNS).


On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Dave Vantine  wrote:
> I am a VMware newbie and have a ESXi host running on my local subnet. I am
> able to ping this machine by IP and  can access this machine with the
> Vsphere client to manage the guest on this subnet.
>
> I want to give access to the host to an administrator located at our branch
> office on a different subnet. We have a site to site vpn and all the other
> machines on the two subnet are pingable except for the ESXi host. When you
> try to ping the host or run a Vsphere client from the branch subnet there is
> no response. I know for certain that there is nothing blocking the traffic
> between the subnets so there must be something within the ESXi host that is
> only allowing IP's on the local subnet to communicate with it. Any idea on
> how I can get the Vsphere client on the remote networ to be able to connect?
>
> --
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Re: ESXi 4 Host access

[Todd Lemmiksoo]

What does a trace route tell you from the branch office side.

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Dave Vantine  wrote:

> If we assume that my subnet is 192.168.1.0/24. The ESXi host is
> 192.168.1.10 and the gateway has been set to 192.168.1.1 and the subnet is
> 255.255.255.0.
>
> The gateway and subnet settings are the same as any of the other machines
> in my local subnet.
>
> I created a DNS record for the host so any machine on this subnet can ping
> the machine either by IP or hostname and can connect to it via vSphere
> client.
>
> It is the machines in the branch office which are on a different subnets
> e.g. 192.168.100.0/24 which are not able to ping the host or connect with
> vSphere though they are able to ping all other machines/devices on my
> subnet.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Richard Stovall  wrote:
>
>> What is the default gateway on the ESXi server's management NIC?  Is it
>> the same as the other machines on your subnet?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Dave Vantine  wrote:
>>
>>> I am a VMware newbie and have a ESXi host running on my local subnet. I
>>> am able to ping this machine by IP and  can access this machine with the
>>> Vsphere client to manage the guest on this subnet.
>>>
>>> I want to give access to the host to an administrator located at our
>>> branch office on a different subnet. We have a site to site vpn and all the
>>> other machines on the two subnet are pingable except for the ESXi host.
>>> When you try to ping the host or run a Vsphere client from the branch
>>> subnet there is no response. I know for certain that there is nothing
>>> blocking the traffic between the subnets so there must be something within
>>> the ESXi host that is only allowing IP's on the local subnet to communicate
>>> with it. Any idea on how I can get the Vsphere client on the remote networ
>>> to be able to connect?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks In Advance
>>> Dave Vantine
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Re: ESXi 4 Host access

[Dave Vantine]

If we assume that my subnet is 192.168.1.0/24. The ESXi host is
192.168.1.10 and the gateway has been set to 192.168.1.1 and the subnet is
255.255.255.0.

The gateway and subnet settings are the same as any of the other machines
in my local subnet.

I created a DNS record for the host so any machine on this subnet can ping
the machine either by IP or hostname and can connect to it via vSphere
client.

It is the machines in the branch office which are on a different subnets
e.g. 192.168.100.0/24 which are not able to ping the host or connect with
vSphere though they are able to ping all other machines/devices on my
subnet.




On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Richard Stovall  wrote:

> What is the default gateway on the ESXi server's management NIC?  Is it
> the same as the other machines on your subnet?
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Dave Vantine  wrote:
>
>> I am a VMware newbie and have a ESXi host running on my local subnet. I
>> am able to ping this machine by IP and  can access this machine with the
>> Vsphere client to manage the guest on this subnet.
>>
>> I want to give access to the host to an administrator located at our
>> branch office on a different subnet. We have a site to site vpn and all the
>> other machines on the two subnet are pingable except for the ESXi host.
>> When you try to ping the host or run a Vsphere client from the branch
>> subnet there is no response. I know for certain that there is nothing
>> blocking the traffic between the subnets so there must be something within
>> the ESXi host that is only allowing IP's on the local subnet to communicate
>> with it. Any idea on how I can get the Vsphere client on the remote networ
>> to be able to connect?
>>
>> --
>> Thanks In Advance
>> Dave Vantine
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RE: ESXi 4 Host access

[Sean Rector]

This got me on one node of my file server cluster.  “Somehow” (I really don’t 
know how it happened), the gateway IP was blanked and our branch office 
(connected via VPLS & 2 routers) couldn’t touch it.  Entered Gateway & bam!

 

Sean Rector, MCSE

 

From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 1:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ESXi 4 Host access

 

What is the default gateway on the ESXi server's management NIC?  Is it the 
same as the other machines on your subnet?

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Dave Vantine  wrote:

I am a VMware newbie and have a ESXi host running on my local subnet. I am able 
to ping this machine by IP and  can access this machine with the Vsphere client 
to manage the guest on this subnet.

 

I want to give access to the host to an administrator located at our branch 
office on a different subnet. We have a site to site vpn and all the other 
machines on the two subnet are pingable except for the ESXi host. When you try 
to ping the host or run a Vsphere client from the branch subnet there is no 
response. I know for certain that there is nothing blocking the traffic between 
the subnets so there must be something within the ESXi host that is only 
allowing IP's on the local subnet to communicate with it. Any idea on how I can 
get the Vsphere client on the remote networ to be able to connect? 

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Re: ESXi 4 Host access

[Harry Singh]

I manually create an A record in DNS for all my hosts. There is a way to
add them to an AD domain, but start with creating a static DNS record first.

+1 on making sure you set up the default gw and the right subnet.


On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Miguel Gonzalez
wrote:

>  and maybe the netmask needs to be checked too
>
>   --
> *De:* Richard Stovall 
> *Para:* NT System Admin Issues 
> *Enviado:* Miércoles 1 de febrero de 2012 19:46
> *Asunto:* Re: ESXi 4 Host access
>
> What is the default gateway on the ESXi server's management NIC?  Is it
> the same as the other machines on your subnet?
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Dave Vantine  wrote:
>
> I am a VMware newbie and have a ESXi host running on my local subnet. I am
> able to ping this machine by IP and  can access this machine with the
> Vsphere client to manage the guest on this subnet.
>
> I want to give access to the host to an administrator located at our
> branch office on a different subnet. We have a site to site vpn and all the
> other machines on the two subnet are pingable except for the ESXi host.
> When you try to ping the host or run a Vsphere client from the branch
> subnet there is no response. I know for certain that there is nothing
> blocking the traffic between the subnets so there must be something within
> the ESXi host that is only allowing IP's on the local subnet to communicate
> with it. Any idea on how I can get the Vsphere client on the remote networ
> to be able to connect?
>
> --
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Re: ESXi 4 Host access

[Miguel Gonzalez]

and maybe the netmask needs to be checked too




 De: Richard Stovall 
Para: NT System Admin Issues  
Enviado: Miércoles 1 de febrero de 2012 19:46
Asunto: Re: ESXi 4 Host access
 

What is the default gateway on the ESXi server's management NIC?  Is it the 
same as the other machines on your subnet?


On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Dave Vantine  wrote:

I am a VMware newbie and have a ESXi host running on my local subnet. I am able 
to ping this machine by IP and  can access this machine with the Vsphere client 
to manage the guest on this subnet.
> 
>I want to give access to the host to an administrator located at our branch 
>office on a different subnet. We have a site to site vpn and all the other 
>machines on the two subnet are pingable except for the ESXi host. When you try 
>to ping the host or run a Vsphere client from the branch subnet there is no 
>response. I know for certain that there is nothing blocking the traffic 
>between the subnets so there must be something within the ESXi host that is 
>only allowing IP's on the local subnet to communicate with it. Any idea on how 
>I can get the Vsphere client on the remote networ to be able to connect? 
>
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Re: ESXi 4 Host access

[Richard Stovall]

What is the default gateway on the ESXi server's management NIC?  Is it the
same as the other machines on your subnet?

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Dave Vantine  wrote:

> I am a VMware newbie and have a ESXi host running on my local subnet. I am
> able to ping this machine by IP and  can access this machine with the
> Vsphere client to manage the guest on this subnet.
>
> I want to give access to the host to an administrator located at our
> branch office on a different subnet. We have a site to site vpn and all the
> other machines on the two subnet are pingable except for the ESXi host.
> When you try to ping the host or run a Vsphere client from the branch
> subnet there is no response. I know for certain that there is nothing
> blocking the traffic between the subnets so there must be something within
> the ESXi host that is only allowing IP's on the local subnet to communicate
> with it. Any idea on how I can get the Vsphere client on the remote networ
> to be able to connect?
>
> --
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RE: ESXi

[Steven M. Caesare]

Yeah, that's why I was hoping somebody may have whipped up a VMWare
specific one. :(

-sc

-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 3:31 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ESXi

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Steven M. Caesare
 wrote:
> Thanks... it's a personal machine that I was actually going to xfer to
a 
> friend, so it doesn't warrant that... I was just hoping somebody had 
> written a quick-n-dirty undelete to rebuild the inodes... but alas
I'll 
> probably just rebuild.

I don't know jack about ESX*, so I haven't been commenting on this
one... but... you mentioned "Linux filesystem" doesn't VMware use
its own proprietary filesystem?  If it's actually EXT2FS, I know I've
seen undelete utilities for it.  If it's EXT3FS, supposedly undelete is
not possible after-the-fact because of the way the metadata journaling
workings.

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Re: ESXi

[Jeff Bunting]

Yes, the ESX filesystem is VMFS3.

I haven't used this, but there's a driver here:

http://code.google.com/p/vmfs/

Jeff

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Ben Scott  wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Steven M. Caesare
>  wrote:
> > Thanks… it’s a personal machine that I was actually going to xfer to a
> > friend, so it doesn’t warrant that… I was just hoping somebody had
> written a
> > quick-n-dirty undelete to rebuild the inodes… but alas I’ll probably just
> > rebuild.
>
> I don't know jack about ESX*, so I haven't been commenting on this
> one... but... you mentioned "Linux filesystem" doesn't VMware use
> its own proprietary filesystem?  If it's actually EXT2FS, I know I've
> seen undelete utilities for it.  If it's EXT3FS, supposedly undelete
> is not possible after-the-fact because of the way the metadata
> journaling workings.
>
> -- Ben
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Re: ESXi

[Ben Scott]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Steven M. Caesare
 wrote:
> Thanks… it’s a personal machine that I was actually going to xfer to a
> friend, so it doesn’t warrant that… I was just hoping somebody had written a
> quick-n-dirty undelete to rebuild the inodes… but alas I’ll probably just
> rebuild.

I don't know jack about ESX*, so I haven't been commenting on this
one... but... you mentioned "Linux filesystem" doesn't VMware use
its own proprietary filesystem?  If it's actually EXT2FS, I know I've
seen undelete utilities for it.  If it's EXT3FS, supposedly undelete
is not possible after-the-fact because of the way the metadata
journaling workings.

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RE: ESXi

[Steven M. Caesare]

Thanks... it's a personal machine that I was actually going to xfer to a
friend, so it doesn't warrant that... I was just hoping somebody had
written a quick-n-dirty undelete to rebuild the inodes... but alas I'll
probably just rebuild.

 

Thanks.

 

-sc

 

From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 12:37 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ESXi

 

Sorry...we don't have any esxi currently so I couldn't verify it.

 

How about calling support?  I usually get quick resolution from VMware.

 

From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 11:33 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ESXi

 

Unfortunately that article seems to be in error.. it's not in ESXi, only
ESX.

 

-sc

 

From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 12:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ESXi

 

This may be helpful:

http://www.vladan.fr/there-is-no-more-vmfs-undelete-in-esx-4/

 

it mentions a vmfs-undelete command that is available for ESXi3.5

 

From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:50 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: ESXi

 

Anybody ever had to do a file undelete on an ESXi box w/ it's linux
filesystem?

 

I seem to find myself facing that...

 

-sc

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RE: ESXi

[Kim Longenbaugh]

Sorry...we don't have any esxi currently so I couldn't verify it.

 

How about calling support?  I usually get quick resolution from VMware.

 

From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 11:33 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ESXi

 

Unfortunately that article seems to be in error.. it's not in ESXi, only
ESX.

 

-sc

 

From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 12:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ESXi

 

This may be helpful:

http://www.vladan.fr/there-is-no-more-vmfs-undelete-in-esx-4/

 

it mentions a vmfs-undelete command that is available for ESXi3.5

 

From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:50 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: ESXi

 

Anybody ever had to do a file undelete on an ESXi box w/ it's linux
filesystem?

 

I seem to find myself facing that...

 

-sc

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RE: ESXi

[Steven M. Caesare]

Unfortunately that article seems to be in error.. it's not in ESXi, only
ESX.

 

-sc

 

From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 12:16 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ESXi

 

This may be helpful:

http://www.vladan.fr/there-is-no-more-vmfs-undelete-in-esx-4/

 

it mentions a vmfs-undelete command that is available for ESXi3.5

 

From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:50 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: ESXi

 

Anybody ever had to do a file undelete on an ESXi box w/ it's linux
filesystem?

 

I seem to find myself facing that...

 

-sc

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RE: ESXi

[Steven M. Caesare]

Ya, not within the VMDK, but the VMDK itself.

 

-sc

 

From: Crawford, Scott [mailto:crawfo...@evangel.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 12:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ESXi

 

I've had to recover a file from a windows VM that was on an ESX volume.
OnTrack EZRecover scanned for missing partitions and actually found the
partition in the deleted VMDK and let me recover the file.  EZR doesn't
work on linux file systems so I couldn't restore the actual vmdk file,
but that wasn't necessary.

 

From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:50 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: ESXi

 

Anybody ever had to do a file undelete on an ESXi box w/ it's linux
filesystem?

 

I seem to find myself facing that...

 

-sc

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RE: ESXi

[Kim Longenbaugh]

This may be helpful:

http://www.vladan.fr/there-is-no-more-vmfs-undelete-in-esx-4/

 

it mentions a vmfs-undelete command that is available for ESXi3.5

 

From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:50 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: ESXi

 

Anybody ever had to do a file undelete on an ESXi box w/ it's linux
filesystem?

 

I seem to find myself facing that...

 

-sc

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RE: ESXi

[Crawford, Scott]

I've had to recover a file from a windows VM that was on an ESX volume. OnTrack 
EZRecover scanned for missing partitions and actually found the partition in 
the deleted VMDK and let me recover the file.  EZR doesn't work on linux file 
systems so I couldn't restore the actual vmdk file, but that wasn't necessary.

From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:50 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: ESXi

Anybody ever had to do a file undelete on an ESXi box w/ it's linux filesystem?

I seem to find myself facing that...

-sc

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RE: ESXi fun

[Joseph L. Casale]

Not unless it has java. It doesn't have read support for vmfs .
See my earlier post...

-Original Message-
From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:cbusitl...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 1:15 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ESXi fun

Would it be possible to boot to a knoppix cd, or some other live cd
and copy the vm's off that way to a usb drive?

On 9/21/10, Steven M. Caesare  wrote:
> As are 9 volt batteries.
>
>
>
> And frozen fence poles.
>
>
>
> -sc
>
>
>
> From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:56 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: ESXi fun
>
>
>
>
> Licking the pins on a telecom punch-down block is a blast!
>
> "Raper, Jonathan - Eagle"  wrote on 09/21/2010
> 10:50:41 AM:
>
>> Unlicking doors is so much fun. Everyone is doing it. You should try
> it.
>>
>> Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
>> Technology Coordinator
>> Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
>> jra...@eaglemds.com
>> www.eaglemds.com
>> ____
>> From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:48 AM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: RE: ESXi fun
>>
>> Of course it was easy... it had that spiffy 3D interface where you
>> fly thru the building to unlick a door or some such.
>>
>> I _SWEAR_ that's where CA got an idea for one of its management
>> nitemares^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H  modules...
>>
>> -sc
>>
>> From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:21 AM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: Re: ESXi fun
>>
>> She took over where the lone sysadmin left off, the guy who ran the
>> entire dino zoo infrastructure from one workstation (application
>> development as well "debugging eight million lines of code") with
>> zero documentation. However all they had to do was reboot the
>> servers and everything was OK - except for the raptors got out. DR
>> testing had been missed.
>> On 21 September 2010 14:08,  wrote:
>>
>> Remember "Jurassic Park"?  "Hey, I know this system - it's just
>> unix!"  Find yourself an 8-year-old girl to help you out...
>>
>> James Rankin  wrote on 09/21/2010 07:58:14 AM:
>>
>>
>> > My ESXi education continuescheers
>> >
>> > Now I find the KVM is faulty. It's one of those days!
>>
>> > On 21 September 2010 13:49, Martin Blackstone
>  wrote:
>> > Connect a serial cable to it, ssh in (use Putty, its free) and run
>> > ifconfig. You should get something like this:
>> >
>> > vswif0Link 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
>  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
>  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
>> >
&g

Re: ESXi fun

[James Rankin]

Possibly worth a try. I'm still trying to get the damn KVM fixed for the
spare box. I may have to drag some monitors into the comms room.

Joy.

On 22 September 2010 08:14, Matt Plahtinsky  wrote:

> Would it be possible to boot to a knoppix cd, or some other live cd
> and copy the vm's off that way to a usb drive?
>
> On 9/21/10, Steven M. Caesare  wrote:
> > As are 9 volt batteries.
> >
> >
> >
> > And frozen fence poles.
> >
> >
> >
> > -sc
> >
> >
> >
> > From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:56 AM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: ESXi fun
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Licking the pins on a telecom punch-down block is a blast!
> >
> > "Raper, Jonathan - Eagle"  wrote on 09/21/2010
> > 10:50:41 AM:
> >
> >> Unlicking doors is so much fun. Everyone is doing it. You should try
> > it.
> >>
> >> Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
> >> Technology Coordinator
> >> Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
> >> jra...@eaglemds.com
> >> www.eaglemds.com
> >> 
> >> From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:48 AM
> >> To: NT System Admin Issues
> >> Subject: RE: ESXi fun
> >>
> >> Of course it was easy... it had that spiffy 3D interface where you
> >> fly thru the building to unlick a door or some such.
> >>
> >> I _SWEAR_ that's where CA got an idea for one of its management
> >> nitemares^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H  modules...
> >>
> >> -sc
> >>
> >> From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:21 AM
> >> To: NT System Admin Issues
> >> Subject: Re: ESXi fun
> >>
> >> She took over where the lone sysadmin left off, the guy who ran the
> >> entire dino zoo infrastructure from one workstation (application
> >> development as well "debugging eight million lines of code") with
> >> zero documentation. However all they had to do was reboot the
> >> servers and everything was OK - except for the raptors got out. DR
> >> testing had been missed.
> >> On 21 September 2010 14:08,  wrote:
> >>
> >> Remember "Jurassic Park"?  "Hey, I know this system - it's just
> >> unix!"  Find yourself an 8-year-old girl to help you out...
> >>
> >> James Rankin  wrote on 09/21/2010 07:58:14 AM:
> >>
> >>
> >> > My ESXi education continuescheers
> >> >
> >> > Now I find the KVM is faulty. It's one of those days!
> >>
> >> > On 21 September 2010 13:49, Martin Blackstone
> >  wrote:
> >> > Connect a serial cable to it, ssh in (use Putty, its free) and run
> >> > ifconfig. You should get something like this:
> >> >
> >> > vswif0Link 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
> >  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 Issue

Re: ESXi fun

[Matt Plahtinsky]

Would it be possible to boot to a knoppix cd, or some other live cd
and copy the vm's off that way to a usb drive?

On 9/21/10, Steven M. Caesare  wrote:
> As are 9 volt batteries.
>
>
>
> And frozen fence poles.
>
>
>
> -sc
>
>
>
> From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:56 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: ESXi fun
>
>
>
>
> Licking the pins on a telecom punch-down block is a blast!
>
> "Raper, Jonathan - Eagle"  wrote on 09/21/2010
> 10:50:41 AM:
>
>> Unlicking doors is so much fun. Everyone is doing it. You should try
> it.
>>
>> Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
>> Technology Coordinator
>> Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
>> jra...@eaglemds.com
>> www.eaglemds.com
>> 
>> From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:48 AM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: RE: ESXi fun
>>
>> Of course it was easy... it had that spiffy 3D interface where you
>> fly thru the building to unlick a door or some such.
>>
>> I _SWEAR_ that's where CA got an idea for one of its management
>> nitemares^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H  modules...
>>
>> -sc
>>
>> From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:21 AM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: Re: ESXi fun
>>
>> She took over where the lone sysadmin left off, the guy who ran the
>> entire dino zoo infrastructure from one workstation (application
>> development as well "debugging eight million lines of code") with
>> zero documentation. However all they had to do was reboot the
>> servers and everything was OK - except for the raptors got out. DR
>> testing had been missed.
>> On 21 September 2010 14:08,  wrote:
>>
>> Remember "Jurassic Park"?  "Hey, I know this system - it's just
>> unix!"  Find yourself an 8-year-old girl to help you out...
>>
>> James Rankin  wrote on 09/21/2010 07:58:14 AM:
>>
>>
>> > My ESXi education continuescheers
>> >
>> > Now I find the KVM is faulty. It's one of those days!
>>
>> > On 21 September 2010 13:49, Martin Blackstone
>  wrote:
>> > Connect a serial cable to it, ssh in (use Putty, its free) and run
>> > ifconfig. You should get something like this:
>> >
>> > vswif0Link 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
>  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
>  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
>&

RE: ESXi fun

[Steven M. Caesare]

As are 9 volt batteries.

 

And frozen fence poles.

 

-sc

 

From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:56 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ESXi fun

 


Licking the pins on a telecom punch-down block is a blast! 

"Raper, Jonathan - Eagle"  wrote on 09/21/2010
10:50:41 AM:

> Unlicking doors is so much fun. Everyone is doing it. You should try
it.
> 
> Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
> Technology Coordinator
> Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
> jra...@eaglemds.com
> www.eaglemds.com
> 
> From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:48 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: ESXi fun
> 
> Of course it was easy... it had that spiffy 3D interface where you 
> fly thru the building to unlick a door or some such.
> 
> I _SWEAR_ that's where CA got an idea for one of its management 
> nitemares^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H  modules...
> 
> -sc
> 
> From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:21 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: ESXi fun
> 
> She took over where the lone sysadmin left off, the guy who ran the 
> entire dino zoo infrastructure from one workstation (application 
> development as well "debugging eight million lines of code") with 
> zero documentation. However all they had to do was reboot the 
> servers and everything was OK - except for the raptors got out. DR 
> testing had been missed.
> On 21 September 2010 14:08,  wrote:
> 
> Remember "Jurassic Park"?  "Hey, I know this system - it's just 
> unix!"  Find yourself an 8-year-old girl to help you out...
> 
> James Rankin  wrote on 09/21/2010 07:58:14 AM:
> 
> 
> > My ESXi education continuescheers
> >
> > Now I find the KVM is faulty. It's one of those days!
> 
> > On 21 September 2010 13:49, Martin Blackstone
 wrote:
> > Connect a serial cable to it, ssh in (use Putty, its free) and run
> > ifconfig. You should get something like this:
> >
> > vswif0Link 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
 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
 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 
wrote:
> > You know you could just put the drive in a working esxi system
andmount 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 S

Re: ESXi fun

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Steven M. Caesare
 wrote:
> Of course it was easy… it had that spiffy 3D interface where you fly thru
> the building to unlick a door or some such.

http://fsv.sourceforge.net/

-- Ben

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~   ~

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RE: ESXi fun

[RichardMcClary]

Licking the pins on a telecom punch-down block is a blast!

"Raper, Jonathan - Eagle"  wrote on 09/21/2010 
10:50:41 AM:

> Unlicking doors is so much fun. Everyone is doing it. You should try it.
> 
> Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
> Technology Coordinator
> Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
> jra...@eaglemds.com
> www.eaglemds.com
> 
> From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:48 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: ESXi fun
> 
> Of course it was easy... it had that spiffy 3D interface where you 
> fly thru the building to unlick a door or some such.
> 
> I _SWEAR_ that's where CA got an idea for one of its management 
> nitemares^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H  modules...
> 
> -sc
> 
> From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:21 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: ESXi fun
> 
> She took over where the lone sysadmin left off, the guy who ran the 
> entire dino zoo infrastructure from one workstation (application 
> development as well "debugging eight million lines of code") with 
> zero documentation. However all they had to do was reboot the 
> servers and everything was OK - except for the raptors got out. DR 
> testing had been missed.
> On 21 September 2010 14:08,  wrote:
> 
> Remember "Jurassic Park"?  "Hey, I know this system - it's just 
> unix!"  Find yourself an 8-year-old girl to help you out...
> 
> James Rankin  wrote on 09/21/2010 07:58:14 AM:
> 
> 
> > My ESXi education continuescheers
> >
> > Now I find the KVM is faulty. It's one of those days!
> 
> > On 21 September 2010 13:49, Martin Blackstone  
wrote:
> > Connect a serial cable to it, ssh in (use Putty, its free) and run
> > ifconfig. You should get something like this:
> >
> > vswif0Link 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  
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  
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  
wrote:
> > You know you could just put the drive in a working esxi system 
andmount 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
> >  wrote:
> > >>  There's a big difference between half dead and all dead.  Half 
d

RE: ESXi fun

[Raper, Jonathan - Eagle]

Unlicking doors is so much fun. Everyone is doing it. You should try it.

Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
jra...@eaglemds.com
www.eaglemds.com

From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:48 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ESXi fun

Of course it was easy... it had that spiffy 3D interface where you fly thru the 
building to unlick a door or some such.

I _SWEAR_ that's where CA got an idea for one of its management 
nitemares^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H  modules...

-sc

From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:21 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ESXi fun

She took over where the lone sysadmin left off, the guy who ran the entire dino 
zoo infrastructure from one workstation (application development as well 
"debugging eight million lines of code") with zero documentation. However all 
they had to do was reboot the servers and everything was OK - except for the 
raptors got out. DR testing had been missed.
On 21 September 2010 14:08,  wrote:

Remember "Jurassic Park"?  "Hey, I know this system - it's just unix!"  Find 
yourself an 8-year-old girl to help you out...

James Rankin  wrote on 09/21/2010 07:58:14 AM:


> My ESXi education continuescheers
>
> Now I find the KVM is faulty. It's one of those days!

> On 21 September 2010 13:49, Martin Blackstone  wrote:
> Connect a serial cable to it, ssh in (use Putty, its free) and run
> ifconfig. You should get something like this:
>
> vswif0Link 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  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  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  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
>  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
>
> ~ 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/
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> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
>
>
> ~ Finally

RE: ESXi fun

[Steven M. Caesare]

Of course it was easy... it had that spiffy 3D interface where you fly
thru the building to unlick a door or some such.

 

I _SWEAR_ that's where CA got an idea for one of its management
nitemares^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H  modules...

 

-sc

 

From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:21 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ESXi fun

 

She took over where the lone sysadmin left off, the guy who ran the
entire dino zoo infrastructure from one workstation (application
development as well "debugging eight million lines of code") with zero
documentation. However all they had to do was reboot the servers and
everything was OK - except for the raptors got out. DR testing had been
missed.

On 21 September 2010 14:08,  wrote:


Remember "Jurassic Park"?  "Hey, I know this system - it's just unix!"
Find yourself an 8-year-old girl to help you out... 

James Rankin  wrote on 09/21/2010 07:58:14 AM:



> My ESXi education continuescheers
> 
> Now I find the KVM is faulty. It's one of those days!


> On 21 September 2010 13:49, Martin Blackstone 
wrote: 
> Connect a serial cable to it, ssh in (use Putty, its free) and run 
> ifconfig. You should get something like this: 
>   
> vswif0Link 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 
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 
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 
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
>  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
> 
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
> 
> ---
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> 
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> 
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Re: ESXi fun

[Ben Scott]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:08 AM,   wrote:
> Remember "Jurassic Park"?  "Hey, I know this system - it's just unix!"  Find
> yourself an 8-year-old girl to help you out...

  Unfortunately that only helps you run the SGI 3D file navigator demo.

-- Ben

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

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RE: ESXi fun

[Maglinger, Paul]

"Ah ah ah... you didn't say "please"."

 

From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 8:09 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ESXi fun

 


Remember "Jurassic Park"?  "Hey, I know this system - it's just unix!"
Find yourself an 8-year-old girl to help you out... 

James Rankin  wrote on 09/21/2010 07:58:14 AM:

> My ESXi education continuescheers
> 
> Now I find the KVM is faulty. It's one of those days!

> On 21 September 2010 13:49, Martin Blackstone 
wrote: 
> Connect a serial cable to it, ssh in (use Putty, its free) and run 
> ifconfig. You should get something like this: 
>   
> vswif0Link 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 
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 
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 
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
>  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
> 
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
> 
> ---
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> 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/>  ~
> 
> ---
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> 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 t

Re: ESXi fun

[James Rankin]

She took over where the lone sysadmin left off, the guy who ran the entire
dino zoo infrastructure from one workstation (application development as
well "debugging eight million lines of code") with zero documentation.
However all they had to do was reboot the servers and everything was OK -
except for the raptors got out. DR testing had been missed.

On 21 September 2010 14:08,  wrote:

>
> Remember "Jurassic Park"?  "Hey, I know this system - it's just unix!"
>  Find yourself an 8-year-old girl to help you out...
>
> James Rankin  wrote on 09/21/2010 07:58:14 AM:
>
>
> > My ESXi education continuescheers
> >
> > Now I find the KVM is faulty. It's one of those days!
>
> > On 21 September 2010 13:49, Martin Blackstone 
> wrote:
> > Connect a serial cable to it, ssh in (use Putty, its free) and run
> > ifconfig. You should get something like this:
> >
> > vswif0Link 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 
> 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 
> 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 
> 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
> >  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
> >
> > ~ 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.sun

Re: ESXi fun

[Jonathan Link]

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  wrote:

> My ESXi education continuescheers
>
> Now I find the KVM is faulty. It's one of those days!
>
>  On 21 September 2010 13:49, Martin Blackstone wrote:
>
>>   Connect a serial cable to it, ssh in (use Putty, its free) and run
>> ifconfig. You should get something like this:
>>
>>
>>
>> vswif0Link 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 
>> 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 
>> 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  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
>>  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
>>
>> ~ 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ~ Finally, pow

RE: ESXi fun

[Raper, Jonathan - Eagle]

L3+


Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE
Technology Coordinator
Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA
jra...@eaglemds.commailto:%20jra...@eaglemds.com>
www.eaglemds.comhttp://www.eaglemds.com/>


From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:09 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ESXi fun


Remember "Jurassic Park"?  "Hey, I know this system - it's just unix!"  Find 
yourself an 8-year-old girl to help you out...

James Rankin  wrote on 09/21/2010 07:58:14 AM:

> My ESXi education continuescheers
>
> Now I find the KVM is faulty. It's one of those days!

> On 21 September 2010 13:49, Martin Blackstone  wrote:
> Connect a serial cable to it, ssh in (use Putty, its free) and run
> ifconfig. You should get something like this:
>
> vswif0Link 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  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  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  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
>  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
>
> ~ 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
>
>
>
>
>
> ~ 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 t

Re: ESXi fun

[RichardMcClary]

Remember "Jurassic Park"?  "Hey, I know this system - it's just unix!" 
Find yourself an 8-year-old girl to help you out...

James Rankin  wrote on 09/21/2010 07:58:14 AM:

> My ESXi education continuescheers
> 
> Now I find the KVM is faulty. It's one of those days!

> On 21 September 2010 13:49, Martin Blackstone  
wrote:
> Connect a serial cable to it, ssh in (use Putty, its free) and run 
> ifconfig. You should get something like this:
>  
> vswif0Link 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  
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  
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  
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
>  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
> 
> ~ 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ~ 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! 

Re: ESXi fun

[James Rankin]

My ESXi education continuescheers

Now I find the KVM is faulty. It's one of those days!

On 21 September 2010 13:49, Martin Blackstone  wrote:

> Connect a serial cable to it, ssh in (use Putty, its free) and run
> ifconfig. You should get something like this:
>
>
>
> vswif0Link 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 
> 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 
> 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  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
>  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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Re: ESXi fun

[RichardMcClary]

If you can log into it, then give the command "ifconfig"
--
RMc

James Rankin  wrote on 09/21/2010 07:41:42 AM:

> 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  
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  
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  
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
>  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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> 
> -- 
> "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! ~
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> 
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> 
> -- 
> "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'

RE: ESXi fun

[Martin Blackstone]

Connect a serial cable to it, ssh in (use Putty, its free) and run ifconfig.
You should get something like this:

 

vswif0Link 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  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  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  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
 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

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~

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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."

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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! ~
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Re: ESXi fun

[James Rankin]

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  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 
> 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  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
>  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
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
>
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>
> --
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> 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/>  ~
>
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> --
> "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-Enterpri

RE: ESXi fun

[Martin Blackstone]

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  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  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
 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

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
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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."

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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! ~
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Re: ESXi fun

[James Rankin]

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  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  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
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> Subject: Re: ESXi fun
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Damien Solodow
>  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?
>
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RE: ESXi fun

[Martin Blackstone]

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  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!

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Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 3:40 PM
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Subject: Re: ESXi fun

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Damien Solodow
 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?

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Re: ESXi fun

[James Rankin]

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  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
>  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?
>
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>
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RE: ESXi fun

[Joseph L. Casale]

>You know you could just put the drive in a working esxi system and mount the
>datastore and files ...

Given how easy that is, I wouldn't disagree but if you insist on some other way 
to
recover the data, you can always mount the vmfs partitions in windows or Linux.

http://code.google.com/p/vmfs/

jlc


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Re: ESXi fun

[James Rankin]

I'm suspecting the NICs may have fried, as they don't get on the network,
but the ILO card is working fine when plugged into the same ports. However,
all the hardware checks out in the diagnostics. As it would be, we don't
have any spare NICs and the server is out of warranty.

On 20 September 2010 20:19, Mathew Shember wrote:

>  I have found the USB support to be iffy with 3.5 and of course the age of
> the systems comes into play……
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Tangent:  This is an interesting tool for formatting the usb…..
>
>
>
> http://hp-usb-disk-storage-format-tool.software.informer.com/
>
> -
>
>
>
> I am curious to the not getting on the network comment.
>
>
>
> Could be a config issue as the networking is not that hard.   Is the NIC
> going bad?
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mathew
>
>
>
> *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, September 20, 2010 11:42 AM
>
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* ESXi fun
>
>
>
> As some of you may have noticed, I'm currently engaged in a battle with a
> half-dead ESXi boxI'm on the verge of restoring from backup, but one
> last try
>
> Does anyone know if there is any way to copy the virtual machine files from
> the ESXi "tech support mode" console onto, say, a USB drive, or somewhere
> else I might be able to load them onto a fresh ESXi install (this is because
> I'm betting ESXi doesn't support USB removable drives, although I am happy
> to be proved wrong)? The server isn't getting onto the network and there's
> no shared storage so it would have to be a "local" solution of some kind.
>
> I'm at a new job so as I'm such a quiet guy I am not usually keen to ask
> too many questions of as-yet-unfamiliar co-workers, so I'm leaning on the
> old faithful mailing list pretty heavy here :-)
>
> If no joy, I'll be pulling out the first backup tape I've ever touched in a
> long, long time
>
> TIA,
>
>
>
> JRR
>
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RE: ESXi fun

[Level Five - List]

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!

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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
 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...

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RE: ESXi fun

[Damien Solodow]

I hear an MLT is better. But only if the mutton is nice and lean...

DAMIEN SOLODOW
Systems Engineer
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317.217.6851 (fax)
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-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! 

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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  
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?

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RE: ESXi fun

[N Parr]

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  
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?

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Re: ESXi fun

[Ben Scott]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Damien Solodow
 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?

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Re: ESXi fun

[Jonathan Link]

As you wish.

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Damien Solodow  wrote:

> Go through his pockets looking for loose change?
>
> DAMIEN SOLODOW
> Systems Engineer
> 317.447.6033 (office)
> 317.217.6851 (fax)
> HARRISON COLLEGE
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 4:31 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: ESXi fun
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:45 PM, N Parr  wrote:
> > What's half dead mean?
>
>  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.
>
> -- Ben
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RE: ESXi fun

[Damien Solodow]

Go through his pockets looking for loose change?

DAMIEN SOLODOW
Systems Engineer
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317.217.6851 (fax)
HARRISON COLLEGE

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Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 4:31 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ESXi fun

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:45 PM, N Parr  wrote:
> What's half dead mean?

  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.

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RE: ESXi fun

[N Parr]

So kind of like half the bits have drained out of the server or has the
server just zombified? 

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Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 3:31 PM
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Subject: Re: ESXi fun

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:45 PM, N Parr  wrote:
> What's half dead mean?

  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.

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Re: ESXi fun

[Ben Scott]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:45 PM, N Parr  wrote:
> What's half dead mean?

  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.

-- Ben

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RE: ESXi fun

[N Parr]

What's half dead mean?  Can you get in to the vsphere client and do
anything?  Are the guest images on the same drive array as the the ESX
Boot partition?



From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 2:02 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ESXi fun


This seems intriguing, but nontrivial to setup...
http://sanbarrow.com/moa241.html
 
In this case restore may be faster.  Or, if you have an alternate server
available, restore concurrent with messing with above.
Good luck!

 
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:42 PM, James Rankin 
wrote:


As some of you may have noticed, I'm currently engaged in a
battle with a half-dead ESXi boxI'm on the verge of restoring from
backup, but one last try

Does anyone know if there is any way to copy the virtual machine
files from the ESXi "tech support mode" console onto, say, a USB drive,
or somewhere else I might be able to load them onto a fresh ESXi install
(this is because I'm betting ESXi doesn't support USB removable drives,
although I am happy to be proved wrong)? The server isn't getting onto
the network and there's no shared storage so it would have to be a
"local" solution of some kind.

I'm at a new job so as I'm such a quiet guy I am not usually
keen to ask too many questions of as-yet-unfamiliar co-workers, so I'm
leaning on the old faithful mailing list pretty heavy here :-)

If no joy, I'll be pulling out the first backup tape I've ever
touched in a long, long time

TIA,



JRR

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RE: ESXi fun

[Mathew Shember]

I have found the USB support to be iffy with 3.5 and of course the age of the 
systems comes into play..



Tangent:  This is an interesting tool for formatting the usb.

http://hp-usb-disk-storage-format-tool.software.informer.com/
-

I am curious to the not getting on the network comment.

Could be a config issue as the networking is not that hard.   Is the NIC going 
bad?


Thanks,
Mathew

From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 11:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: ESXi fun

As some of you may have noticed, I'm currently engaged in a battle with a 
half-dead ESXi boxI'm on the verge of restoring from backup, but one last 
try

Does anyone know if there is any way to copy the virtual machine files from the 
ESXi "tech support mode" console onto, say, a USB drive, or somewhere else I 
might be able to load them onto a fresh ESXi install (this is because I'm 
betting ESXi doesn't support USB removable drives, although I am happy to be 
proved wrong)? The server isn't getting onto the network and there's no shared 
storage so it would have to be a "local" solution of some kind.

I'm at a new job so as I'm such a quiet guy I am not usually keen to ask too 
many questions of as-yet-unfamiliar co-workers, so I'm leaning on the old 
faithful mailing list pretty heavy here :-)

If no joy, I'll be pulling out the first backup tape I've ever touched in a 
long, long time

TIA,



JRR

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to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

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RE: ESXi fun

[Ken Cornetet]

I'm not sure if ESXi would see a USB drive or not, but even if it did, it isn't 
going to be able to write to an NTFS partition. FAT32 would work, but would 
only support drives of a limited size, and the file size would be limited to 
2gb, so you'd have to convert your vmdk files to the form where a vmdk is a 
collection of files under 2gb (I don't recall what ESX calls that).

Alternately, you could format the USB drive as EXT2. There are some windows 
drivers available that let you mount EXT2 drives.

From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 2:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: ESXi fun

As some of you may have noticed, I'm currently engaged in a battle with a 
half-dead ESXi boxI'm on the verge of restoring from backup, but one last 
try

Does anyone know if there is any way to copy the virtual machine files from the 
ESXi "tech support mode" console onto, say, a USB drive, or somewhere else I 
might be able to load them onto a fresh ESXi install (this is because I'm 
betting ESXi doesn't support USB removable drives, although I am happy to be 
proved wrong)? The server isn't getting onto the network and there's no shared 
storage so it would have to be a "local" solution of some kind.

I'm at a new job so as I'm such a quiet guy I am not usually keen to ask too 
many questions of as-yet-unfamiliar co-workers, so I'm leaning on the old 
faithful mailing list pretty heavy here :-)

If no joy, I'll be pulling out the first backup tape I've ever touched in a 
long, long time

TIA,



JRR

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Re: ESXi fun

[Jonathan Link]

This seems intriguing, but nontrivial to setup...
http://sanbarrow.com/moa241.html

In this case restore may be faster.  Or, if you have an alternate server
available, restore concurrent with messing with above.
Good luck!


On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:42 PM, James Rankin  wrote:

> As some of you may have noticed, I'm currently engaged in a battle with a
> half-dead ESXi boxI'm on the verge of restoring from backup, but one
> last try
>
> Does anyone know if there is any way to copy the virtual machine files from
> the ESXi "tech support mode" console onto, say, a USB drive, or somewhere
> else I might be able to load them onto a fresh ESXi install (this is because
> I'm betting ESXi doesn't support USB removable drives, although I am happy
> to be proved wrong)? The server isn't getting onto the network and there's
> no shared storage so it would have to be a "local" solution of some kind.
>
> I'm at a new job so as I'm such a quiet guy I am not usually keen to ask
> too many questions of as-yet-unfamiliar co-workers, so I'm leaning on the
> old faithful mailing list pretty heavy here :-)
>
> If no joy, I'll be pulling out the first backup tape I've ever touched in a
> long, long time
>
> TIA,
>
>
>
> JRR
>
> --
> "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."
>
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Re: ESXi fun

[Kurt Buff]

I don't know if you've already tried this...

If you can, get ssh running on the machine, then get winscp running on
your workstation, and copy off the machines that way.

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:42, James Rankin  wrote:
> As some of you may have noticed, I'm currently engaged in a battle with a
> half-dead ESXi boxI'm on the verge of restoring from backup, but one
> last try
>
> Does anyone know if there is any way to copy the virtual machine files from
> the ESXi "tech support mode" console onto, say, a USB drive, or somewhere
> else I might be able to load them onto a fresh ESXi install (this is because
> I'm betting ESXi doesn't support USB removable drives, although I am happy
> to be proved wrong)? The server isn't getting onto the network and there's
> no shared storage so it would have to be a "local" solution of some kind.
>
> I'm at a new job so as I'm such a quiet guy I am not usually keen to ask too
> many questions of as-yet-unfamiliar co-workers, so I'm leaning on the old
> faithful mailing list pretty heavy here :-)
>
> If no joy, I'll be pulling out the first backup tape I've ever touched in a
> long, long time
>
> TIA,
>
>
>
> JRR
>
> --
> "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."
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RE: ESXi box failing to start

[Joseph L. Casale]

Known behavior from experience and vmware community posts.

From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 6:06 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ESXi box failing to start


Out of curiosity, why does a logical volume manager problem make you think 
"NIC"?
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James Rankin mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com>> wrote on 
09/17/2010 02:11:54 AM:

> I've got an ESXi box failing to start that stops with an error of
> "failed to load lvmdriver". All my Google-fu points to an
> incompatible network card, but it was working fine until a few days
> ago. I've tried starting it with the NICs disabled, but it makes no
> difference whatsoever. Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing it?
>
> TIA,
>
>
>
> JRR
>
> --
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> 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."

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RE: ESXi box failing to start

[Steven M. Caesare]

I actually suspect that the disc logical volume mgr.

 

I'd bet failing/corrupted drives that actually hold the ESXi system
files.

 

-sc

 

From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 3:12 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: ESXi box failing to start

 

I've got an ESXi box failing to start that stops with an error of
"failed to load lvmdriver". All my Google-fu points to an incompatible
network card, but it was working fine until a few days ago. I've tried
starting it with the NICs disabled, but it makes no difference
whatsoever. Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing it?

TIA,



JRR

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Re: ESXi box failing to start

[James Rankin]

I wonder if there is some HP CD I can boot from to do a diagnostics on the
hardware. What's the equivalent of SmartStart these days, and is there a
bootable diagnostics version?

On 17 September 2010 13:36,  wrote:

>
> OK as to why NIC.  Anyway, just because one thing is broken doesn't mean
> more things are not broken...
>
> We switched from HP-UX many many years ago, and I was just getting my feet
> wet as to unix administration.  However, it is sort-of the equivalent of the
> Windows disk managment system.
> --
> richard
>
> James Rankin  wrote on 09/17/2010 07:07:38 AM:
>
>
> > Everything in Google's search results screams "NIC" - but as yet,
> > Google does not know all.
> >
> > Educate me, please...should I be looking somewhere else?
>
> > On 17 September 2010 13:06,  wrote:
> >
> > Out of curiosity, why does a logical volume manager problem make you
> > think "NIC"?
> > --
> > Richard D. McClary
> > Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group
> > ASPCA®
> > 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36
> > Urbana, IL  61802
> >
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> > James Rankin  wrote on 09/17/2010 02:11:54 AM:
> >
> >
> > > I've got an ESXi box failing to start that stops with an error of
> > > "failed to load lvmdriver". All my Google-fu points to an
> > > incompatible network card, but it was working fine until a few days
> > > ago. I've tried starting it with the NICs disabled, but it makes no
> > > difference whatsoever. Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing
> it?
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > JRR
> > >
> > > --
> > > "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."
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Re: ESXi box failing to start

[RichardMcClary]

OK as to why NIC.  Anyway, just because one thing is broken doesn't mean 
more things are not broken...

We switched from HP-UX many many years ago, and I was just getting my feet 
wet as to unix administration.  However, it is sort-of the equivalent of 
the Windows disk managment system.
--
richard

James Rankin  wrote on 09/17/2010 07:07:38 AM:

> Everything in Google's search results screams "NIC" - but as yet, 
> Google does not know all.
> 
> Educate me, please...should I be looking somewhere else?

> On 17 September 2010 13:06,  wrote:
> 
> Out of curiosity, why does a logical volume manager problem make you
> think "NIC"?
> -- 
> Richard D. McClary 
> Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group 
> ASPCA® 
> 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 
> Urbana, IL  61802 
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> James Rankin  wrote on 09/17/2010 02:11:54 AM:
> 
> 
> > I've got an ESXi box failing to start that stops with an error of 
> > "failed to load lvmdriver". All my Google-fu points to an 
> > incompatible network card, but it was working fine until a few days 
> > ago. I've tried starting it with the NICs disabled, but it makes no 
> > difference whatsoever. Does anyone have any ideas what might be 
causing it?
> > 
> > TIA,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > JRR
> > 
> > -- 
> > "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."
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> could provoke such a question."

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Re: ESXi box failing to start

[James Rankin]

I could do, if there were any around. I'd forgotten how much of a pain
physical servers could be, especially without shared storage in use. I'll
see if I can steal a spare from one of the decommissioned ProLiants that are
(apparently) hiding somewhere.

On 17 September 2010 13:23, Andrew S. Baker  wrote:

> Perhaps the NIC had gone bad.  Try replacing it?
>
> -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker
>
> Sent from my Motorola Droid
>
> On Sep 17, 2010 8:00 AM, "James Rankin"  wrote:
> > I think that's correct, but this one won't start with them enabled
> either,
> > and it was working fine until recently. Is there any equivalent of the
> > "ping" command in the ESXi tech support console that anyone knows of?
> >
> > On 17 September 2010 12:58, Joseph L. Casale  >wrote:
> >
> >> AFAIK ESXi wont start w/o a nic at all.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
> >> *Sent:* Friday, September 17, 2010 1:12 AM
> >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> >> *Subject:* ESXi box failing to start
>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I've got an ESXi box failing to start that stops with an error of
> "failed
> >> to load lvmdriver". All my Google-fu points to an incompatible network
> card,
> >> but it was working fine until a few days ago. I've tried starting it
> with
> >> the NICs disabled, but it makes no difference whatsoever. Does anyone
> have
> >> any ideas what might be causing it?
> >>
> >> TIA,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> JRR
> >>
> >> --
> >> "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."
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Re: ESXi box failing to start

[Andrew S. Baker]

Perhaps the NIC had gone bad.  Try replacing it?

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On Sep 17, 2010 8:00 AM, "James Rankin"  wrote:
> I think that's correct, but this one won't start with them enabled either,
> and it was working fine until recently. Is there any equivalent of the
> "ping" command in the ESXi tech support console that anyone knows of?
>
> On 17 September 2010 12:58, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>
>> AFAIK ESXi wont start w/o a nic at all.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
>> *Sent:* Friday, September 17, 2010 1:12 AM
>> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
>> *Subject:* ESXi box failing to start
>>
>>
>>
>> I've got an ESXi box failing to start that stops with an error of "failed
>> to load lvmdriver". All my Google-fu points to an incompatible network
card,
>> but it was working fine until a few days ago. I've tried starting it with
>> the NICs disabled, but it makes no difference whatsoever. Does anyone
have
>> any ideas what might be causing it?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>>
>>
>> JRR
>>
>> --
>> "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."
>>
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Re: ESXi box failing to start

[James Rankin]

Everything in Google's search results screams "NIC" - but as yet, Google
does not know all.

Educate me, please...should I be looking somewhere else?

On 17 September 2010 13:06,  wrote:

>
> Out of curiosity, why does a logical volume manager problem make you think
> "NIC"?
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> Urbana, IL  61802
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> James Rankin  wrote on 09/17/2010 02:11:54 AM:
>
>
> > I've got an ESXi box failing to start that stops with an error of
> > "failed to load lvmdriver". All my Google-fu points to an
> > incompatible network card, but it was working fine until a few days
> > ago. I've tried starting it with the NICs disabled, but it makes no
> > difference whatsoever. Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing
> it?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> >
> >
> > JRR
> >
> > --
> > "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."
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Re: ESXi box failing to start

[James Rankin]

There's also the fact that the server doesn't respond to a ping in the mix
too

On 17 September 2010 13:06,  wrote:

>
> Out of curiosity, why does a logical volume manager problem make you think
> "NIC"?
> --
> Richard D. McClary
> Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group
> *ASPCA®*
> 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36
> Urbana, IL  61802
>
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> James Rankin  wrote on 09/17/2010 02:11:54 AM:
>
>
> > I've got an ESXi box failing to start that stops with an error of
> > "failed to load lvmdriver". All my Google-fu points to an
> > incompatible network card, but it was working fine until a few days
> > ago. I've tried starting it with the NICs disabled, but it makes no
> > difference whatsoever. Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing
> it?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> >
> >
> > JRR
> >
> > --
> > "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."
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Re: ESXi box failing to start

[RichardMcClary]

Out of curiosity, why does a logical volume manager problem make you think 
"NIC"?
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James Rankin  wrote on 09/17/2010 02:11:54 AM:

> I've got an ESXi box failing to start that stops with an error of 
> "failed to load lvmdriver". All my Google-fu points to an 
> incompatible network card, but it was working fine until a few days 
> ago. I've tried starting it with the NICs disabled, but it makes no 
> difference whatsoever. Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing 
it?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> 
> 
> JRR
> 
> -- 
> "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."

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Re: ESXi box failing to start

[James Rankin]

I think that's correct, but this one won't start with them enabled either,
and it was working fine until recently. Is there any equivalent of the
"ping" command in the ESXi tech support console that anyone knows of?

On 17 September 2010 12:58, Joseph L. Casale wrote:

>  AFAIK ESXi wont start w/o a nic at all.
>
>
>
> *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, September 17, 2010 1:12 AM
> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* ESXi box failing to start
>
>
>
> I've got an ESXi box failing to start that stops with an error of "failed
> to load lvmdriver". All my Google-fu points to an incompatible network card,
> but it was working fine until a few days ago. I've tried starting it with
> the NICs disabled, but it makes no difference whatsoever. Does anyone have
> any ideas what might be causing it?
>
> TIA,
>
>
>
> JRR
>
> --
> "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."
>
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rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such
a question."

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RE: ESXi box failing to start

[Joseph L. Casale]

AFAIK ESXi wont start w/o a nic at all.

From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 1:12 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: ESXi box failing to start

I've got an ESXi box failing to start that stops with an error of "failed to 
load lvmdriver". All my Google-fu points to an incompatible network card, but 
it was working fine until a few days ago. I've tried starting it with the NICs 
disabled, but it makes no difference whatsoever. Does anyone have any ideas 
what might be causing it?

TIA,



JRR

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RE: esxi guest network issue

[Steven M. Caesare]

Cool.

-sc

> -Original Message-
> From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 10:25 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: esxi guest network issue
> 
> What I meant was:
> 
> My guests couldn't reach the network, so they never got an IP address
from
> DHCP server on the network.  So, I manually set an address on the
guest.
> Only one NIC on the guest .  My ESXI management interface (what I
called
> the host IP address) has a manually set IP address.  I can get to the
host from
> the network and all network tests from the host passed (pinging
gateway,
> dns servers, dns lookup).  The ESXI host machine has two NICs, but
only one
> was enabled.
> 
> The guest was able to ping the management address of the host, but
unable
> to ping anything else on the physical network.  VM NIC is set as
"flexible".
> 
> This morning, I disabled the host machine's first NIC and enabled the
second
> NIC.  Now I have normal connectivity and my guest VMs can now see the
> physical LAN.  I didn't change any settings on the host except for
disabling
> first NIC, enabling second NIC and restarting management interface.
> 
> So, I'm guessing the issue is with the original NIC or the port that
NIC is
> connecting to on the physical switch.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Bill
> 
> Steven M. Caesare wrote:
> > What's your networking configuration in the ESXi configuration page?
> >
> > What does "If i set a manual IP address, I can ping the host, but
> > can't get outside of the box." mean? Set a static IP on ESXi
physical host?
> > Virtual guest? Ping what host? From where?
> >
> > -sc
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 5:30 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: esxi guest network issue
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm fairly newbish when it comes to VM stuff, so I'm hoping this is
> > easy.  My google has failed me.
> >
> > I've set up a couple of other ESXi boxes at clients and not had
> > issues, but this one is troublesome.
> >
> > I have a HP Proliant DL380 G4 server that I installed ESXi on.  Any
> > guest I create, whether from scratch or P to V can't connect to the
> > office LAN.  If i set a manual IP address, I can ping the host, but
> > can't get outside of the box.  This happens whether I am using esxi
> > 3.5 or 4.
> >
> > It has two NICs, but I am only using one.
> >
> > any help would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Bill
> >
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Re: esxi guest network issue

[Bill Humphries]

What I meant was:

My guests couldn't reach the network, so they never got an IP address 
from DHCP server on the network.  So, I manually set an address on the 
guest.  Only one NIC on the guest .  My ESXI management interface (what 
I called the host IP address) has a manually set IP address.  I can get 
to the host from the network and all network tests from the host passed 
(pinging gateway, dns servers, dns lookup).  The ESXI host machine has 
two NICs, but only one was enabled.


The guest was able to ping the management address of the host, but 
unable to ping anything else on the physical network.  VM NIC is set as 
"flexible".


This morning, I disabled the host machine's first NIC and enabled the 
second NIC.  Now I have normal connectivity and my guest VMs can now see 
the physical LAN.  I didn't change any settings on the host except for 
disabling first NIC, enabling second NIC and restarting management 
interface.


So, I'm guessing the issue is with the original NIC or the port that NIC 
is connecting to on the physical switch.


Thanks.

Bill

Steven M. Caesare wrote:

What's your networking configuration in the ESXi configuration page?

What does "If i set a manual IP address, I can ping the host, but can't
get outside of the box." mean? Set a static IP on ESXi physical host?
Virtual guest? Ping what host? From where?

-sc

-Original Message-
From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 5:30 PM

To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: esxi guest network issue

Hi all,

I'm fairly newbish when it comes to VM stuff, so I'm hoping this is
easy.  My google has failed me.

I've set up a couple of other ESXi boxes at clients and not had issues,
but this one is troublesome.

I have a HP Proliant DL380 G4 server that I installed ESXi on.  Any
guest I create, whether from scratch or P to V can't connect to the
office LAN.  If i set a manual IP address, I can ping the host, but
can't get outside of the box.  This happens whether I am using esxi 3.5
or 4.

It has two NICs, but I am only using one.

any help would be much appreciated.

Bill

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Re: ESXi guest connectivity issues

[Kurt Buff]

Which has two NICs - the DL380 or the VM?

What are the settings on the NIC for the VM?

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 14:34, Bill Humphries  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm fairly newbish when it comes to VM stuff, so I'm hoping this is easy.
>  My google has failed me.
>
> I've set up a couple of other ESXi boxes at clients and not had issues, but
> this one is troublesome.
>
> I have a HP Proliant DL380 G4 server that I installed ESXi on.  Any guest I
> create, whether from scratch or P to V can't connect to the office LAN.  If
> i set a manual IP address, I can ping the host, but can't get outside of the
> box.  This happens whether I am using esxi 3.5 or 4.
>
> It has two NICs, but I am only using one.
>
> any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Bill
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~   ~
>

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RE: esxi guest network issue

[Steven M. Caesare]

Oh, and virtual NICs set to connected at power up?

-sc

-Original Message-
From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 5:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: esxi guest network issue

Hi all,

I'm fairly newbish when it comes to VM stuff, so I'm hoping this is
easy.  My google has failed me.

I've set up a couple of other ESXi boxes at clients and not had issues,
but this one is troublesome.

I have a HP Proliant DL380 G4 server that I installed ESXi on.  Any
guest I create, whether from scratch or P to V can't connect to the
office LAN.  If i set a manual IP address, I can ping the host, but
can't get outside of the box.  This happens whether I am using esxi 3.5
or 4.

It has two NICs, but I am only using one.

any help would be much appreciated.

Bill

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
  ~

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~   ~

RE: esxi guest network issue

[Steven M. Caesare]

What's your networking configuration in the ESXi configuration page?

What does "If i set a manual IP address, I can ping the host, but can't
get outside of the box." mean? Set a static IP on ESXi physical host?
Virtual guest? Ping what host? From where?

-sc

-Original Message-
From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 5:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: esxi guest network issue

Hi all,

I'm fairly newbish when it comes to VM stuff, so I'm hoping this is
easy.  My google has failed me.

I've set up a couple of other ESXi boxes at clients and not had issues,
but this one is troublesome.

I have a HP Proliant DL380 G4 server that I installed ESXi on.  Any
guest I create, whether from scratch or P to V can't connect to the
office LAN.  If i set a manual IP address, I can ping the host, but
can't get outside of the box.  This happens whether I am using esxi 3.5
or 4.

It has two NICs, but I am only using one.

any help would be much appreciated.

Bill

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
  ~

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~   ~

RE: ESXi 4 With SCSI RAID

[Kim Longenbaugh]

Change the active partition?

-Original Message-
From: Robert Jackson [mailto:r...@walkermartyn.co.uk] 
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 7:09 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: ESXi 4 With SCSI RAID

I've got an old  DELL PE6850 with a Dell PV220S external SCSI RAID array
attached. I was hoping to use the equipment as part of a VMware test
project.

However when the PV220S is connected to the server, it reason becomes
the 
boot device and ESXi 4 fails to load. Disconnect the PV220S and
everything
boots as normal.

Can anyone suggest how to get the system booted so that I can have full
use of
the external RAID?


Regards,
Rab.
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RE: ESXi 4 With SCSI RAID

[Robert Jackson]

Tried that. Didn't work. The BIOS order shouldn't have been
an issue as the combination was previously used very successfully
as a RHEL 2.1AS server. 

-Original Message-
From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] 
Sent: Friday March 2010 13:17
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ESXi 4 With SCSI RAID

Adjust bios boot order?

-Original Message-
From: Robert Jackson [mailto:r...@walkermartyn.co.uk] 
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 6:09 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: ESXi 4 With SCSI RAID

I've got an old  DELL PE6850 with a Dell PV220S external SCSI RAID array
attached. I was hoping to use the equipment as part of a VMware test
project.

However when the PV220S is connected to the server, it reason becomes
the 
boot device and ESXi 4 fails to load. Disconnect the PV220S and
everything
boots as normal.

Can anyone suggest how to get the system booted so that I can have full
use of
the external RAID?


Regards,
Rab.
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7999
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RE: ESXi 4 With SCSI RAID

[N Parr]

Is the hard drive/s you want to boot from connected the same controller
as the 220?  If so you should be able to designate which array is
bootable or not in the controller card.  If they aren't then try to
change the boot order of devices in the server bios or disable it in the
controller card. 

-Original Message-
From: Robert Jackson [mailto:r...@walkermartyn.co.uk] 
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 7:09 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: ESXi 4 With SCSI RAID

I've got an old  DELL PE6850 with a Dell PV220S external SCSI RAID array
attached. I was hoping to use the equipment as part of a VMware test
project.

However when the PV220S is connected to the server, it reason becomes
the boot device and ESXi 4 fails to load. Disconnect the PV220S and
everything boots as normal.

Can anyone suggest how to get the system booted so that I can have full
use of the external RAID?


Regards,
Rab.
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7999
Software Engineer Fax:  +44 (0) 141 331
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RE: ESXi 4 With SCSI RAID

[Joseph L. Casale]

Adjust bios boot order?

-Original Message-
From: Robert Jackson [mailto:r...@walkermartyn.co.uk] 
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 6:09 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: ESXi 4 With SCSI RAID

I've got an old  DELL PE6850 with a Dell PV220S external SCSI RAID array
attached. I was hoping to use the equipment as part of a VMware test
project.

However when the PV220S is connected to the server, it reason becomes
the 
boot device and ESXi 4 fails to load. Disconnect the PV220S and
everything
boots as normal.

Can anyone suggest how to get the system booted so that I can have full
use of
the external RAID?


Regards,
Rab.
===
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7999
Software Engineer Fax:  +44 (0) 141 331
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r...@walkermartyn.co.uk
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RE: ESXi 4.0 is free... the Client isn't!?

[John Cook]

+1 VC client will get you into a single host.Virtual Center (the paid for mgmt 
app) gives you multiple host mgmt, High Availability, and depending on which 
version DRS, Fault Tolerance and many more options. Of course it's dependent on 
your infrastructure and Hardware (Gb network is required for some of these) but 
in the long run it's a pretty good deal for what you get. Anyone is welcome to 
hit me off list for any more info.

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-Original Message-
From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:05 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ESXi 4.0 is free... the Client isn't!?

You can always use the VC client downloaded directly from any ESX host
to manage that host directly at Zero cost, it's always been like that.

You do need to register ESXi to continue using it. The part that costs
is managing more than one server together which then turns into Vcenter,
but you could have 10 ESXi servers and manage each one of them
individually all for free.

-Original Message-
From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:08 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ESXi 4.0 is free... the Client isn't!?

Ya, but you can use the free VI Client (not the for-pay VI stuff) to
manage those ESXi servers for which you got a free license code.

Sounds like the OP is saying there is no 4.0 equiv. to a standalone VI
Client?

Ugly.

-sc

-Original Message-
From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ESXi 4.0 is free... the Client isn't!?

ESXi may be freeware but you still need license codes from VMware to use
it past 60 days.

Matthew W. Ross wrote:
> Okay, I'm trying ESXi 4.0... and it seems to work well.
>
> But it has me use the vSphere client... which is A) a bit slow and B)
> not free! Instead, It's a 60 day evaluation... and I don't see what
> happens after the end of that evaluation. I suspect it stops working.
>
>
> So I made a quick phone call to VMWare, and asked them if there was a
> free client for ESXi (like there was for 3.5)... Nope. vSphere client
> is it.
>
> So I went to VMWare's website, and couldn't find any price for
> vSphere client. I couldn't find one for the client at CDW either.
> There were prices for vSphere... but not just the client.
>
> So am I wrong, or is this a bait and switch? Is there a cost for just
> the client? Anybody know what the retail cost is? We effectively have
> a zero budget, so paid solutions will be looked at second.
>
> *grumble* Going to try XenServer 5.5 next... *grumble*

--

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p...@optimumdata.com

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RE: ESXi 4.0 is free... the Client isn't!?

[Steven M. Caesare]

I understand that is the case with 3.5.

The OP was suggesting that the free client was no longer there with 4.0,
which I have not run. Subsequent posts appear indicate that original
premise is incorrect.

The free VI Client issue is a _separate_ issue from licensing the server
is all that I was pointing out.

-sc

> -Original Message-
> From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:05 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: ESXi 4.0 is free... the Client isn't!?
> 
> You can always use the VC client downloaded directly from any ESX host
> to manage that host directly at Zero cost, it's always been like that.
> 
> You do need to register ESXi to continue using it. The part that costs
> is managing more than one server together which then turns into
> Vcenter,
> but you could have 10 ESXi servers and manage each one of them
> individually all for free.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:08 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: ESXi 4.0 is free... the Client isn't!?
> 
> Ya, but you can use the free VI Client (not the for-pay VI stuff) to
> manage those ESXi servers for which you got a free license code.
> 
> Sounds like the OP is saying there is no 4.0 equiv. to a standalone VI
> Client?
> 
> Ugly.
> 
> -sc
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:12 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: ESXi 4.0 is free... the Client isn't!?
> 
> ESXi may be freeware but you still need license codes from VMware to
> use
> it past 60 days.
> 
> Matthew W. Ross wrote:
> > Okay, I'm trying ESXi 4.0... and it seems to work well.
> >
> > But it has me use the vSphere client... which is A) a bit slow and
B)
> > not free! Instead, It's a 60 day evaluation... and I don't see what
> > happens after the end of that evaluation. I suspect it stops
working.
> >
> >
> > So I made a quick phone call to VMWare, and asked them if there was
a
> > free client for ESXi (like there was for 3.5)... Nope. vSphere
client
> > is it.
> >
> > So I went to VMWare's website, and couldn't find any price for
> > vSphere client. I couldn't find one for the client at CDW either.
> > There were prices for vSphere... but not just the client.
> >
> > So am I wrong, or is this a bait and switch? Is there a cost for
just
> > the client? Anybody know what the retail cost is? We effectively
have
> > a zero budget, so paid solutions will be looked at second.
> >
> > *grumble* Going to try XenServer 5.5 next... *grumble*
> 
> --
> 
> Phil Brutsche
> p...@optimumdata.com
> 
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
> 
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RE: ESXi 4.0 is free... the Client isn't!?

[Garcia-Moran, Carlos]

You can always use the VC client downloaded directly from any ESX host
to manage that host directly at Zero cost, it's always been like that.

You do need to register ESXi to continue using it. The part that costs
is managing more than one server together which then turns into Vcenter,
but you could have 10 ESXi servers and manage each one of them
individually all for free.

-Original Message-
From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:08 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ESXi 4.0 is free... the Client isn't!?

Ya, but you can use the free VI Client (not the for-pay VI stuff) to
manage those ESXi servers for which you got a free license code.

Sounds like the OP is saying there is no 4.0 equiv. to a standalone VI
Client?

Ugly. 

-sc

-Original Message-
From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ESXi 4.0 is free... the Client isn't!?

ESXi may be freeware but you still need license codes from VMware to use
it past 60 days.

Matthew W. Ross wrote:
> Okay, I'm trying ESXi 4.0... and it seems to work well.
> 
> But it has me use the vSphere client... which is A) a bit slow and B)
> not free! Instead, It's a 60 day evaluation... and I don't see what
> happens after the end of that evaluation. I suspect it stops working.
> 
> 
> So I made a quick phone call to VMWare, and asked them if there was a
> free client for ESXi (like there was for 3.5)... Nope. vSphere client
> is it.
> 
> So I went to VMWare's website, and couldn't find any price for
> vSphere client. I couldn't find one for the client at CDW either.
> There were prices for vSphere... but not just the client.
> 
> So am I wrong, or is this a bait and switch? Is there a cost for just
> the client? Anybody know what the retail cost is? We effectively have
> a zero budget, so paid solutions will be looked at second.
> 
> *grumble* Going to try XenServer 5.5 next... *grumble*

-- 

Phil Brutsche
p...@optimumdata.com

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~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~

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RE: ESXi 4.0 is free... the Client isn't!?

[Steven M. Caesare]

Ya, but you can use the free VI Client (not the for-pay VI stuff) to
manage those ESXi servers for which you got a free license code.

Sounds like the OP is saying there is no 4.0 equiv. to a standalone VI
Client?

Ugly. 

-sc

-Original Message-
From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:p...@optimumdata.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 6:12 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ESXi 4.0 is free... the Client isn't!?

ESXi may be freeware but you still need license codes from VMware to use
it past 60 days.

Matthew W. Ross wrote:
> Okay, I'm trying ESXi 4.0... and it seems to work well.
> 
> But it has me use the vSphere client... which is A) a bit slow and B)
> not free! Instead, It's a 60 day evaluation... and I don't see what
> happens after the end of that evaluation. I suspect it stops working.
> 
> 
> So I made a quick phone call to VMWare, and asked them if there was a
> free client for ESXi (like there was for 3.5)... Nope. vSphere client
> is it.
> 
> So I went to VMWare's website, and couldn't find any price for
> vSphere client. I couldn't find one for the client at CDW either.
> There were prices for vSphere... but not just the client.
> 
> So am I wrong, or is this a bait and switch? Is there a cost for just
> the client? Anybody know what the retail cost is? We effectively have
> a zero budget, so paid solutions will be looked at second.
> 
> *grumble* Going to try XenServer 5.5 next... *grumble*

-- 

Phil Brutsche
p...@optimumdata.com

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~

RE: ESXi 4.0 is free... the Client isn't!?

[Greg Mulholland]

No

The client is free. Its the host you need to license. You register for the 
license when you download the software.
You point your browser at https://esxihost and download the 
client from there.

Greg

From: Matthew W. Ross [mr...@ephrataschools.org]
Sent: Thursday, 16 July 2009 8:09 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: ESXi 4.0 is free... the Client isn't!?

Okay, I'm trying ESXi 4.0... and it seems to work well.

But it has me use the vSphere client... which is A) a bit slow and B) not free! 
Instead, It's a 60 day evaluation... and I don't see what happens after the end 
of that evaluation. I suspect it stops working.

So I made a quick phone call to VMWare, and asked them if there was a free 
client for ESXi (like there was for 3.5)... Nope. vSphere client is it.

So I went to VMWare's website, and couldn't find any price for vSphere client. 
I couldn't find one for the client at CDW either. There were prices for 
vSphere... but not just the client.

So am I wrong, or is this a bait and switch? Is there a cost for just the 
client? Anybody know what the retail cost is? We effectively have a zero 
budget, so paid solutions will be looked at second.

*grumble* Going to try XenServer 5.5 next... *grumble*


--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District

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~   ~


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~   ~

Re: ESXi 4.0 is free... the Client isn't!?

[Phil Brutsche]

ESXi may be freeware but you still need license codes from VMware to use
it past 60 days.

Matthew W. Ross wrote:
> Okay, I'm trying ESXi 4.0... and it seems to work well.
> 
> But it has me use the vSphere client... which is A) a bit slow and B)
> not free! Instead, It's a 60 day evaluation... and I don't see what
> happens after the end of that evaluation. I suspect it stops working.
> 
> 
> So I made a quick phone call to VMWare, and asked them if there was a
> free client for ESXi (like there was for 3.5)... Nope. vSphere client
> is it.
> 
> So I went to VMWare's website, and couldn't find any price for
> vSphere client. I couldn't find one for the client at CDW either.
> There were prices for vSphere... but not just the client.
> 
> So am I wrong, or is this a bait and switch? Is there a cost for just
> the client? Anybody know what the retail cost is? We effectively have
> a zero budget, so paid solutions will be looked at second.
> 
> *grumble* Going to try XenServer 5.5 next... *grumble*

-- 

Phil Brutsche
p...@optimumdata.com

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~   ~

RE: ESXi and WIM files

[Jake Gardner]

Thanks.  I'll give it a go.
 
Thanks,
 
Jake Gardner
TTC Network Administrator
Ext. 246
 



From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 2:29 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ESXi and WIM files



I do this routinely. The wim is a compressed archive of the relevant
files/data off a partition.

Create a new vm, boot it off a winpe iso, then imagex your wim onto the
hard disc.

Reboot...

 

jlc

 

From: Jake Gardner [mailto:jgard...@ttcdas.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 8:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: ESXi and WIM files

 

Can anyone point me to some articles or something about converting WIMs
to something esxi can use?  Or can it use WIMs and I just havn't figured
out how yet?

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

Jake Gardner

TTC Network Administrator

Ext. 246

 

 

 

 

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RE: ESXi and WIM files

[Joseph L. Casale]

I do this routinely. The wim is a compressed archive of the relevant files/data 
off a partition.
Create a new vm, boot it off a winpe iso, then imagex your wim onto the hard 
disc.
Reboot...

jlc

From: Jake Gardner [mailto:jgard...@ttcdas.com]
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 8:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: ESXi and WIM files

Can anyone point me to some articles or something about converting WIMs to 
something esxi can use?  Or can it use WIMs and I just havn't figured out how 
yet?



Thanks,

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RE: ESXi and WIM files

[Jake Gardner]

I'm just testing/practicing right now...
 
I have Dell PE2600 sitting cold so I thought I'd load up esxi and try
and load some vm's.  I have a wim of a generic server build I created
and I want to be lazy and not go through a server build up in a new vm.
I tried PXE booting the new vm and pulling the wim via BDD but that
didn't go so well.  I've pxe booted VirtualPC vm's to snag XP wim's, so
I know that it can work that way.
 
Also, the WIM was created from a baseline Win2k3r2 installed on the same
PE2600, I then blew out drives and PXE booted the win2k3r2 wim and was
back online.  Then I used the esxi ISO and installed it, ran the web
interface and created a VM.  I then attempted to PXE boot it with the
same WIM.  No joy, and now I forget what the problem was.  I'll try it
again next week.
 
 
Possible future use would be to image all of my servers and run them via
vm's.   Though, like most, my budget is for "absolute needs" right now.
 
 
 
Thanks,
 
Jake Gardner
TTC Network Administrator
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From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 10:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ESXi and WIM files



Can you give more detail on the situation and what you are trying to do?


 

Chris Bodnar, MCSE
Sr. Systems Engineer
Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com
Phone: 610-807-6459
Fax: 610-807-6003



From: Jake Gardner [mailto:jgard...@ttcdas.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 10:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: ESXi and WIM files

 

Can anyone point me to some articles or something about converting WIMs
to something esxi can use?  Or can it use WIMs and I just havn't figured
out how yet?

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

Jake Gardner

TTC Network Administrator

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RE: ESXi and WIM files

[John Cook]

I would think you could create a VM - point it to the Win PE boot disc you 
created with WDS and go from there. Never tried it but in theory...

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From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com]
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 10:53 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ESXi and WIM files

Can you give more detail on the situation and what you are trying to do?


Chris Bodnar, MCSE
Sr. Systems Engineer
Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Email: christopher_bod...@glic.com<mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com>
Phone: 610-807-6459
Fax: 610-807-6003


From: Jake Gardner [mailto:jgard...@ttcdas.com]
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 10:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: ESXi and WIM files

Can anyone point me to some articles or something about converting WIMs to 
something esxi can use?  Or can it use WIMs and I just havn't figured out how 
yet?



Thanks,

Jake Gardner
TTC Network Administrator
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RE: ESXi and WIM files

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Can you give more detail on the situation and what you are trying to do? 

 

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From: Jake Gardner [mailto:jgard...@ttcdas.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 10:47 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: ESXi and WIM files

 

Can anyone point me to some articles or something about converting WIMs to
something esxi can use?  Or can it use WIMs and I just havn't figured out
how yet?

 

 

 

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RE: ESXi newbie - question about data stores

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

The service restart doesn't work on 3.5u3 you have to kill the service via
kill -HUP | grep inetd or something like that. Lots of documentation on
doing it, and I have it enabled on all my boxes in production. 

 

 

From: R. Mac [mailto:big...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 20:58
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores

 

How to enable ssh for esxi

1) At the console press ALT-F1 
2) type unsupported in the console and press Enter.(You will not see the
text)
3) If you typed in unsupported correctly, you will see a command line login.
Enter the password for the root login.
4) Edit the file inetd.conf and find the line that begins with #ssh and
remove the #. 
6) restart the inetd services by running the command /sbin/services.sh
restart 



On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Greg Mulholland  wrote:

Using SSH is different to having a service console. The service console is
generally what allows those apps to work. Until the new version are
rewritten for esxi :)


-Original Message-
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 7 January 2009 11:07 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues

Subject: RE: ESXi newbie - question about data stores

You can use SSH in ESXi, it's just unsupported by Vmware.

-Original Message-
From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:53 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores

ah, hadn't thought about that.  Think I will keep my ESX server farm.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Damien Solodow
 wrote:
> Might not be able to do that with esxi as it doesn't have a service
> console, so maybe no sshd
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:52 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores
>
> http://winscp.net/eng/index.php
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Bryan Garmon 
> wrote:
>> I want to copy a few iso files to the ESXi datastore - how do I
>> access
> the
>> datastore remotely from a windows vista machine?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
>

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Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores

[R. Mac]

How to enable ssh for esxi

1) At the console press ALT-F1
2) type* *unsupported in the console and press Enter.(You will not see the
text)
3) If you typed in unsupported correctly, you will see a command line login.
Enter the password for the root login.
4) Edit the file inetd.conf ** and find the line that begins with #ssh and
remove the #.
6) restart the inetd services by running the command* /*sbin/services.sh
restart


On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Greg Mulholland  wrote:

> Using SSH is different to having a service console. The service console is
> generally what allows those apps to work. Until the new version are
> rewritten for esxi :)
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 January 2009 11:07 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: ESXi newbie - question about data stores
>
> You can use SSH in ESXi, it's just unsupported by Vmware.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:53 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores
>
> ah, hadn't thought about that.  Think I will keep my ESX server farm.
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Damien Solodow
>  wrote:
> > Might not be able to do that with esxi as it doesn't have a service
> > console, so maybe no sshd
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:52 PM
> > To: NT System Admin Issues
> > Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores
> >
> > http://winscp.net/eng/index.php
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Bryan Garmon 
> > wrote:
> >> I want to copy a few iso files to the ESXi datastore - how do I
> >> access
> > the
> >> datastore remotely from a windows vista machine?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
> > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
> >
> > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
> > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
> >
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
>

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RE: ESXi newbie - question about data stores

[Greg Mulholland]

Using SSH is different to having a service console. The service console is 
generally what allows those apps to work. Until the new version are rewritten 
for esxi :)

-Original Message-
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, 7 January 2009 11:07 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ESXi newbie - question about data stores

You can use SSH in ESXi, it's just unsupported by Vmware. 

-Original Message-
From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:53 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores

ah, hadn't thought about that.  Think I will keep my ESX server farm.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Damien Solodow
 wrote:
> Might not be able to do that with esxi as it doesn't have a service 
> console, so maybe no sshd
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:52 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: ESXi newbie - question about data stores
>
> http://winscp.net/eng/index.php
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Bryan Garmon 
> wrote:
>> I want to copy a few iso files to the ESXi datastore - how do I 
>> access
> the
>> datastore remotely from a windows vista machine?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ 
> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ 
> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
>

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~
<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~