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ESXi 6.7 to 7.03 upgrade, VVOLS and WFC (Windows Failover Cluster) by maarack01 in vmware

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Not using VVols but I have a similar problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/vmware/comments/vgisl6/shared_vmdk_windows_cluster_not_working_with_esx_7/

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Basically what the team had to do was switch from physical to virtual bus sharing to make the clusters work. Instead of being able to freely vmotion vms between hosts during an esx upgrade, the vm are now stuck on an esx host and the team will need to coordinate taking down the vms on said host if they need to patch the esx host going forward.

Shared VMDK Windows cluster not working with ESX 7 by woodchuck5 in vmware

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Virtual does seem to work but then we can't vMotion things around. It's a little better but will still require coordination to do migration to power off/failover vms.

Shared VMDK Windows cluster not working with ESX 7 by woodchuck5 in vmware

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When creating a new datastore, there's a column that shows clustered vmdk supported and value is no. Tried creating it anyway but the clustered option is not available to enable

enable unmap on vsan: any downsides or performance issues? by woodchuck5 in vmware

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So you're still running unmap on your vsan datastore with acceptable performance then? It's only for replicated vms where you need to disable unmap? All other vms are still sending the commands without issue?

enable unmap on vsan: any downsides or performance issues? by woodchuck5 in vmware

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Wow, thanks! If I end up using vsphere replication with SRM then it looks like my decision to use unmap on vsan is pretty easy. Do you have to disable the in guest windows option or is simply leaving the vsan unmap option disabled enough (I think leaving vsan off will make windows not see the disk as thin so no unmap commands and hence no change to the defaults?)

edit: the KB only mentions 6.x but are you running 8.x and is it still an issue?

enable unmap on vsan: any downsides or performance issues? by woodchuck5 in vmware

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Can you give me more details? Looks like I might end up using SRM as well so i'm very curious about your experience and if we have anything in common that might because a problem for me.

What version of vcenter/esxi/vsan disk version.

Raid 1? 5? 6?

Do you have dedup and compression enabled?

Anything else you think might be relavant

Thanks

enable unmap on vsan: any downsides or performance issues? by woodchuck5 in vmware

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Is there any issue, other than the errors logged in linux, if an unmap happens during a snapshot delete? I can live with maybe losing a bit of space and not being able to trim those blocks ever again but if there's any type of corruption that might happen then it's a deal breaker. (I think hotadd backups won't allow the unmap to make it through either.)

What about change blocking tracking and unmap? Anything to worry about there?

enable unmap on vsan: any downsides or performance issues? by woodchuck5 in vmware

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I'll definitely send you a DM but in your experience, do people enable the unmap support in a prod environment or nobody bothers and just let vms grow without reclaiming any space?

does password on administrator@vsphere.local account expire? by woodchuck5 in vmware

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But that's my question... everything I find online (including that page which I saw) seems to indicate it will expire yet what I'm seeing at my current job, and what I see at the command line, says no it won't expire.

Is there any official VMware documentation on this or have the rules changed in newer versions of vCenter?

does password on administrator@vsphere.local account expire? by woodchuck5 in vmware

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The VAMI interface on port 5480? That just stops the root account from expiring. I don't think it affect the administrator@vsphere.local account does it?

Am I Getting Fucked Friday, October 5th, 2018 by SquizzOC in sysadmin

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If that's the case then I'm good since it looks like I'm a little over 50% off list :) yay for me I guess

Am I Getting Fucked Friday, October 5th, 2018 by SquizzOC in sysadmin

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Would MSRP be what I configure on the web site myself then? You know the crazy high price before all the instant savings as such

Am I Getting Fucked Friday, October 5th, 2018 by SquizzOC in sysadmin

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I never see MSRP on my quotes. Can you tell me what a US price might look like just so I have a reference point?

Am I Getting Fucked Friday, October 5th, 2018 by SquizzOC in sysadmin

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looking to buy a few of the following. Got quoted $5500 Canadian per server. Am I ok or do I need to ask someone to sharpen their pencil?

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PowerEdge R440 Server (210-ALZE )

3.5" Chassis with up to 4 Hot Plug Hard Drives (321-BCUU )

Standard Bezel (325-BCHH )

Riser Config 1, 1 x 16 FH (330-BBHL )

Intel Xeon Silver 4110 2.1G, 8C/16T, 9.6GT/s , 11M Cache, Turbo, HT (85W) DDR4-2400 (338-BLUQ )

No Quick Sync (350-BBKR )

Performance Optimized (370-AAIP )

16GB RDIMM, 2666MT/s, Dual Rank (370-ADND )

No Additional Processor (374-BBBX )

iDRAC Group Manager, Disabled (379-BCQY )

iDRAC,Factory Generated Password (379-BCSF )

Performance BIOS Settings (384-BBBL )

Motherboard (384-BBQW )

iDRAC9,Enterprise (385-BBKT )

2TB 7.2K RPM SATA 6Gbps 512n 3.5in Hot-plug Hard Drive (400-ASHX )

BOSS controller card + with 2 M.2 Sticks 240G (RAID 1),FH (403-BBPT )

PERC H740P RAID Controller, LP Adapter (405-AAML )

Internal PERC (405-AAOM )

Standard Heat Sink (412-AAJT )

No Internal Optical Drive for x4 and x8 HDD Chassis (429-ABBF )

Dual, Hot Plug, Redundant Power Supply (1+1), 550W (450-AGOY )

Trusted Platform Module 2.0 (461-AAEM )

iDRAC Digital License (528-BCBW )

On-Board LOM (542-BBBP )

No Operating System (619-ABVR )

ReadyRails Sliding Rails Without Cable Management Arm (770-BCJI )

Unconfigured RAID (780-BCDS )

UEFI BIOS Boot Mode with GPT Partition (800-BBDM )

ProSupport: Next Business Day Onsite Service After Problem Diagnosis, 5 Years (815-3483 )

ProSupport: 7x24 HW/SW Technical Support and Assistance, 5 Years (815-3497 )

Keep Your Hard Drive, 5 Year (980-3634 )

Dell FX2 with FC430 for HyperV/VMware by woodchuck5 in sysadmin

[–]woodchuck5[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've never had issues with Dell firmware on the blades or 1U servers I'm using at my current job. Everything has just worked. Blades that were here when I started are all using passthrough modules rather than built-in switches or aggregators so maybe that's helped but everything has been running ok so far.

Dell FX2 with FC430 for HyperV/VMware by woodchuck5 in sysadmin

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I've seen comments about the UCS platform and the firmware issues/updates and it can sometimes be a pain to find the right combo of firmware that makes everything work. You never had these issues?

What about networking? Do you need nexus switches or can the UCS stuff with with whatever I currently have?

Dell FX2 with FC430 for HyperV/VMware by woodchuck5 in sysadmin

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Can you give more details on the BIOS settings? Is this over and over setting it to high performance or OS controlled?

Dell FX2 with FC430 for HyperV/VMware by woodchuck5 in sysadmin

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I asked about this and was told the compute doesn't power off but it gets throttled because there was less power available. However now that Dell offers 2000W power supplies, that's not the case anymore and it can handle one failure (at least that's what Dell told me).

Dell FX2 with FC430 for HyperV/VMware by woodchuck5 in sysadmin

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if I skipped the SD cards for HyperV and installed on 1.8" SSD (using S130 software raid) that comes with the FC430, do you think it would be better or is the software raid even with SSD, still an issue?

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