March 6, 201313 yr Health Status Issue - I don't see anything in the vSphere client for Health Status. I want to see CPU/MB temps but everything is listed as "? Unknown". Anyone have any ideas for this? Why doesn't anything show? Any other way to get this information? Thanks! I am still on ESXi 5.0U1 and my Health Status has been working fine. This may be a 5.1 issue. A quick search turned this up. http://communities.vmware.com/message/2113736 Wow. Feeling kind of dumb now. I actually read that earlier, but only made it to the 4th post and thought that was the end of the thread. Duh! Wish I had a dollar for every every time I've done that ... Got distracted by other issues here. Looks like I have a flaky drive in my array. Under load it is giving me occasional read errors. They show up as a burst of exactly 128 errors at a time, but does not repeat for the same sector. It's an older WD15EARS that I recycled from my previous build. Not a big problem, as I have everything backed up and I have several available replacement drives on hand. Just need to preclear one and put it into use. I do like those Seagate DM drives. Got three 3TB drives last November when Newegg put them on sale for $89. Picked up one more for a cache/warm spare that I put into use last weekend. They works really nice with SageTV and I can record directly to the array. That keeps my Win8 vm that hosts SageTV really small and simple. I will probably replace the rest of my older drives with those DM drives. That will reduce my drive count and and allow me to run cooler than with the older drives. Now if Newegg will co-operate and put them back on sale again ...
March 6, 201313 yr Nevermind, I think I got the backups all figured out. Got the scripts stored in a datastore and have added the job to cron. I think it will persist a reboot, we'll see. I followed instructions here: http://blog.waldrondigital.com/2012/09/14/modifying-ghettovcb-to-run-on-vmware-5-1/ UPDATE - Yay, it worked. Cron entry persisted through a reboot so my backups are now good to go! Good to see you got everything worked out. I am not only new to ESXi but I am also a neub to Linux too. Its been a rather steep learning curve over the last several months, but piece by piece it is all coming together. Looks to me like Linux is your primary OS of choice. I can move much quicker in a Windows world (or an Alpha Micro world - Motorola 68xxx based - remember those?) but I do want to get more familiar with Linux. So forgive the occasional dumb question. Over the many years I have dealt with many an operating system dating back to the 70's for the early ones. Ever see a DEC PDP-8? It was 12bit computer. Used core memory. That was my initial exposure to computers back in 1975. My first hard disk units were CDC 9766's that used disk packs consisting of ten 14" platters with 20 heads storing a whopping 300MB each. We had four of those units hooked up to a DEC PDP 11-34/35 at a time. Those were monster sized units. Head crashes were a nightmare. Spent many a night doing head replacement/alignments. Replacement heads cost $375 each back then. Nowadays we just pop another drive in. Life is so simple now ....
March 10, 201313 yr Health Status Issue - I don't see anything in the vSphere client for Health Status. I want to see CPU/MB temps but everything is listed as "? Unknown". Anyone have any ideas for this? Why doesn't anything show? Any other way to get this information? Thanks! I am still on ESXi 5.0U1 and my Health Status has been working fine. This may be a 5.1 issue. A quick search turned this up. http://communities.vmware.com/message/2113736 Yep...same issue with my X8SIL-F here...ESXI-5.1 patched to level 914609 Health Status is only working for the first 30mins or so...after that it sticks to unknown until the next reboot. Also, during these first 30mins, my IPMI interface (browser) sees some serious lag...almost unresponsive...looks like the sensord in ESXi is bogging the onboard-chip with interrupts. As soon as ESXi has lost the Health-Status connection, my IPMI interface is working normal again, including Health Status.
March 11, 201313 yr Are you using a cache drive? If so have you tried to use a virtual disk as one of the cache drives?
March 12, 201313 yr Author Are you using a cache drive? If so have you tried to use a virtual disk as one of the cache drives? I am using a Samsung 500GB drive that is passed through on the M1015 as my cache drive. I haven't tried to use a virtual disk. At some point, I am going to setup ZFS and probably move my cache drive to that.
March 13, 201313 yr Hey Jimmy... I am currently running ESXi 5.1 and unRAID on two different servers and have been giving a lot of thought to merging the two into a single box. My only concern is performace. How would you say unRAID in a VM stacks up against unRAID on its own hardware? I imagine that there has be be at least a little bit of a hit on throughput. I know it is not really and apples to apples comparison since you also upgraded your HW...but...I would probably do the same. My current unRAID box is running ona Core i3 and I would more than likely move to a Xeon class processor on the ESXi box. John
March 16, 201313 yr Author Hey Jimmy... I am currently running ESXi 5.1 and unRAID on two different servers and have been giving a lot of thought to merging the two into a single box. My only concern is performace. How would you say unRAID in a VM stacks up against unRAID on its own hardware? I imagine that there has be be at least a little bit of a hit on throughput. I know it is not really and apples to apples comparison since you also upgraded your HW...but...I would probably do the same. My current unRAID box is running ona Core i3 and I would more than likely move to a Xeon class processor on the ESXi box. John That's a good question, but I didn't really do any apples to apples comparisons. I will say that I haven't noticed any performance hit at all for running unRAID in a VM. It works very well.
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