After rebooting several Virtual Connect Modules to test the failover behaviors I got myself in a situation in were the Virtual Connect Manager got completely unresponsive. In my case the vcutil from HP eventually solved my problem so I want to give some more information on this tool since I only knew it as a Virtual […]
Unresponsive HP Virtual Connect Manager – vcutil
https://virtualkenneth.com/2009/12/24/unresponsive-hp-virtual-connect-manager-vcutil/
VMware vCenter Storage Views: Partial/No Redundancy
While exploring my software iSCSI initator environment I noticed that all my VM’s on every host are reporting a “Partial/No Redundancy”-status within the Multipathing Status even though I have Round Robin in place and thus 2 paths to the storage. This behavior is a bug as confirmed by VMware Technical Support. The rule for displaying […]
https://virtualkenneth.com/2009/12/15/vmware-vcenter-storage-views-partialno-redundancy/
Testing Scenario's VMware / HP c-Class Infrastructure
Since my blog about Understanding HP Flex-10 Mappings with VMware ESX/vSphere is quite a big hit (seeing the page views per day) I decided to also write about the testing scenario’s which should all be walked through before taking a design as this into production. In my blog I stated: Last word of advice: while implementing […]
https://virtualkenneth.com/2009/12/04/testing-scenarios-vmware-hp-c-class-infrastructure/
Creating easy to identify LeftHand Volumes on ESX/vSphere
Coming from mostly HP EVA environments I got used to identify a Volume/LUN by there LUN number which was a real unique identifier. I could always “talk” LUN number and be sure that it was understood and unique. So ever since I’ve been working with our LeftHand environment I disliked the way that every Volume/LUN is marked […]
https://virtualkenneth.com/2009/12/03/creating-easy-to-identify-lefthand-volumes-on-esxvsphere/
vSphere: Freezing VMs after deleting a volume from the SAN
We are running a newly designed vSphere 4.0 environment connected to a very big LeftHand iSCSI environment. Lately we discovered some major problems with a couple of VM’s totally freezing for about 30 seconds, this problem seemed to only occur on several VM’s from one specific host, so time to do some research on this […]
https://virtualkenneth.com/2009/12/02/vsphere-freezing-vms-after-deleting-a-volume-from-the-san/