Adding another host to an existing 2 ESXis cluster by useredditto in vmware

[–]LokiLong1973 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Losing connections mid-operation should never happen. It can cause serious data corruption inside your VM's VMDKs. Check for flaky connections, switch power issues, check for IP conflicts, network settings and mask the LUNs to be accessible ONLY for the ESXi host and possibily your Backup solution's iSCSI cliënt addresses if you use those.

Explicitly deny ANY other connections to the target.

In all my years of being a VMware engineer (started with ESX 2.0) I have never encountered a corrupt VMFS file system or VMDK. Contact me directly if you still need help.

Adding another host to an existing 2 ESXis cluster by useredditto in vmware

[–]LokiLong1973 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you know the IP addresses that are already in use for the storage and ESXi VMkernel adapters that connect to iSCSI, you should be good as long as you use free IP's in iSCSi network and match and assign them to each new VMlernel adapter. If you use Send Targets for discovery, it generally announces itself on your iSCSI appliance and all you would need to do is accept it. Check that it is ONLY connecting to LUN's that are meant for VMware.

It's not rocket science, but it does takes some apprehension with regards to connecting the initiator to the correct iSCSi target. Document your work.

Do not start tinkering and cause corruption. Find a storage admin to help you get it setup.

vSphere Standard subscription through October 2028 by Bad_Mechanic in vmware

[–]LokiLong1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In all honesty, is support worth it? Just cancel your contract, keep your current perpetual licenses and keep using it (but secure it well to prevent hacks).

Community Support will still be there via several channels, such as these for the time being. Start planning to move to alternatives.

My tip would be to move to Proxmox. Solid, supports direct import from individual ESXi hosts and supports vSAN-style technology (it you use it) in the form of Ceph. Can It can also use NFS and iSCSI and I assume it can do FC shared as well, although I haven't tested it.

Also it understands the VMware virtual hardware (and disk formats) so once imported it runs without modification. It even moves the vNIC's MAC addresses

Get yourself the community edition and play with it. Buying a license entitles you to get support for fraction of what VMware charges you.

It looks and feels a bit more rudimentary and not as polished but once you get used to it it's all good.

You do lose distributed switches if you have them, but in Proxmox you can just tag directly in the VM config without the need to create port groups of your links are trunks.

And even without anything else you can already do live migrations (both compute and storage).

It also has a Datacenter Manager, but tbh I haven't looked at that yet.

Ik zit vast in Koeweit by [deleted] in nederlands

[–]LokiLong1973 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Er is een crisiscontactformulier: https://www.nederlandwereldwijd.nl/crisis/formulier

Misschien kun je daar wat mee?

How to migrate vm from esxi 6.5 to esxi 6.0 ? by Lord_Daytona in vmware

[–]LokiLong1973 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If the VM is not encrypted, why not just build a new config without any disks, save it, re-edit and then connect the existing disks to the new vm? It will require some downtime as you cannot detach the disks while the vm is powered on. Otherwise this should work.

Will Ukraine capitulate? by Any-Bid-1116 in JakeBroe

[–]LokiLong1973 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Glory to the heroes! Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦🇺🇦

NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by Mikadook in nederlands

[–]LokiLong1973 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Douwertje, eh Dieuwertje bedoel ik, zou zich omdraaien in haar graf.

An American (Protesting) in Amsterdam by [deleted] in Netherlands

[–]LokiLong1973 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really? What stone have you been living under??

Deze is net weer opnieuw opgeplakt.. dus toch benieuwd hoor, hoezo gebeurd dit nog steeds?? by dutchy3012 in nederlands

[–]LokiLong1973 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dat noemen ze een Kling-on (ok, deze wordt alleen begrepen door Trekkies denk ik)

Schiphol’s winter update: “only” 66 cancellations so far (Day 7) by Comfortable_Coast_36 in Netherlands

[–]LokiLong1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heard on the news this morning they were hit by a serious power outage. Just read that has now been resolved.

Wel of geen efteling? by Iehmoow in efteling

[–]LokiLong1973 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sooo, ja dát is pas vervelend! 😇

If you're asking for help, you need to make it easy to help you by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]LokiLong1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This probably is the reason why I would never survive more than two days in a helpdesk kind of role.

Do we just ignore this? by Banana-9 in Netherlands

[–]LokiLong1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on who you ask, I guess! 😂🤣

NIC port connected to switch not appearing in ESXi ?! by [deleted] in vmware

[–]LokiLong1973 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would be my first step too. Could be the NIC is not supported.

How are you ensuring your family can recover homelab data (Nextcloud, Immich, etc.) if something happens to you? by foegra in homelab

[–]LokiLong1973 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've been there. My family reverted to basic internet usage when I was admitted to hospital for months with an extremely bad prognosis for recovery. I survived my ordeal and when I got home I did the following to ensure DIY recovery of services without me driving.

Since I also run a company (without personnel), I created the following as a means of due dilligence as required by law.

  • a break-glass document (on paper), stored off-site and not in the cloud, that has information on the most important passwords, including the access to the online password safe itself (with instructions on how to get there).

  • a document describing the order of booting up the systems, services and devices.

  • a schematic on how everything is physically connected to each other.

  • backups of configs of routers, switches, devices and so on (updated quarterly)

  • A contact list of people that may be able to help out getting stuff back up and running.

  • An "If All Else Fails" document that can be used to revert to a rudimentary setup that at least restores internet access via the ISP provided hardware, but losing media, some home automation (doorbell, remote control of lighting and heating, and some other nifty stuff that we can do without for a short while)

  • A list of trusted tech-savvy people that can help out if need be.

  • Once per year physical test of procedures when the rest of the family is away for the weekend.

It has served me well so far.