I say, "oof" (TM, -sc)
Thanks for the good wishes, and believe me when I tell you that I haven't
forgotten for a moment that MBS is headquartered about 70 miles from where
I sit. :)
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Webster wrote:
> “The procedure itself seems straightforward enough, but those
Connect via ip/name to ESXi host you know the DC is on.
Log in with local credentials (or root since it's what most do)
Right click -> power on.
Power on vCenter environment
Stop messing with systems on the host directly since it annoys vCenter
Connect to vCenter, power on the rest.
Steven Peck
We're all HP blade and SAN here.
It's not that bad. We've survived on purpose scheduled power downs, ups
maintenance battery exploded wtf power downs. The whole thing is pretty
resilient. This is not to say due diligence isn't a good thing. :)
We have all physical vCenter Servers now because o
“The procedure itself seems straightforward enough, but those spindles have
been going for about 4.5 years and it could mean a lot of restore time if more
than two in any disk group decide that they don't want to spin up again.”
Actually had this happen at a hospital’s data center back in early
Probably a good idea to have the DC with the FSMO roles be the last
one down and the first one up.
Kurt
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Richard Stovall wrote:
> I've got two physical DCs and one virtual at this site. The physical ones
> are one traditional rack server and one blade. The blade
I've got two physical DCs and one virtual at this site. The physical ones
are one traditional rack server and one blade. The blade doesn't use any
SAN storage, but I don't plan to bring it back up until the SAN is
completely online.
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:15 PM, John Cook wrote:
> One more
If I don't have a physical DC, how can I boot it first? :)
Thanks
Webster
> -Original Message-
> From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 12:16 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Semi-OT: Vsphere shutdown
>
> One more thing - If you don't h
Thanks, Steven. We're a small shop and the team is one other person and
me. We had our meeting to go through everything yesterday.
I've already created the plan of attack and written out configs for devices
to my PC and a USB stick. The SQL DBA says his db backups are OK and he's
ready. The on
One more thing - If you don't have a physical DC in that location boot that
first - it'll save you loads of suffering. I keep a physical and virtual DC for
this very reason.
John W. Cook
Network Operations Manager
Partnership For Strong Families
5950 NW 1st Place
Gainesville, Fl 32607
Office (3
Get your order dependence list down. Make a list of all the services/servers
and decide what order they should be shut down in and what order they can come
back up. I did this recently (moved my datacenter to another location) and it
made all the difference to have hashed that out and have a fu
And the Java 0-days just keep on coming
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Thanks John, Robert and Kurt. I've got a full plan for how to go about the
shutdown and restart. One physical DC will be the last to shutdown and the
first to power up. Putting that plan together was long overdue and a good
exercise in really understanding dependencies.
Now pray for the disk dr
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Richard Stovall wrote:
> In a few days time I will have to completely shutdown my datacenter for some
> electrical maintenance. (Yes, I'm nervous. It's been online non-stop for
> 6.5 years.)
>
> I have 3 Vsphere ESX 4.1 hosts that I need to shutdown along with eve
And the way to do that is to set your VMs not to autoboot at power up
of the hosts...
Kurt
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:59 AM, John Cook wrote:
> That’s perfectly fine. I’d make sure your VCenter is set to be the first VM
> to come up at reboot.
>
>
>
> John W. Cook
>
> Network Operations Manager
>
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Richard Stovall wrote:
> In a few days time I will have to completely shutdown my datacenter for some
> electrical maintenance. (Yes, I'm nervous. It's been online non-stop for
> 6.5 years.)
>
> I have 3 Vsphere ESX 4.1 hosts that I need to shutdown along with eve
I would not put the hosts in maintenance mode.
You are correct, connect to the last host with the client directly. You
should keep track of which host has the VC and start that host up first,
connect using the client directly so you can start the VC.
Update your resume :)
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at
That’s perfectly fine. I’d make sure your VCenter is set to be the first VM to
come up at reboot.
John W. Cook
Network Operations Manager
Partnership For Strong Families
5950 NW 1st Place
Gainesville, Fl 32607
Office (352) 244-1610
Cell (352) 215-6944
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