All posts for the month December, 2009

Unresponsive HP Virtual Connect Manager – vcutil

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]