This is just a quick post about configuring software iSCSI Round Robin MPIO (2:1 mapping) on an ESX 4.x server. Here is a quick overview of the procedure: Create VMkernel ports on a vSwitch Configure the VMkernel ports Assign physical NIC’s to the vSwitch Configure the uplinks on the vSwitch Enable software iSCSI initiator Find [...]
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Configuring software iSCSI Round Robin MPIO on ESX 4.x.
Posted in ESX 4, VMware, vSphere on 15 October 2010 | 3 Comments »
HP StorageWorks P4300 G2 SAN – Lessons learned.
Posted in ESX 4, HP, Lefthand, P4300, StorageWorks, VMware on 13 October 2010 | 4 Comments »
There are a lot great blog posts about the HP StorageWorks P4000 SAN arrays (formally known as HP Lefthand). I think the articles written by Frank Denneman are one of the most famous . Anyway, a few days ago I had a chance to work with the HP P4300 SAN’s myself when I was configuring [...]
Console-Setup, it’s menu driven!
Posted in ESX 4, VMware, vSphere on 12 August 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Troubleshooting Service Console issues has always been a little bit annoying (well, at least to me ). However, since ESX4 Update 2, there is a new command that will make your life a little bit easier. Login to your ESX server and take a look at #console-setup command. As you can see, it is menu driven [...]
Boot ESX 4 from SAN on IBM HS22 Blade Server.
Posted in ESX 4, HS22, IBM, QLogic, VMware on 4 August 2010 | 5 Comments »
Wow, it has been a while since my last blog! I’ve been working on a large virtualization project at one of our customers lately, which involved diskless IBM HS22 blade servers with two QLogic QMI2582 Fiber Channel adapters. We configured the ESX host to boot from SAN, which was an IBM DS5300. The procedure below describes how to configure boot from [...]
Unload unnecessary modules from your ESX host.
Posted in ESX 3.5, ESX 4, VMware on 21 June 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Turn off what you do not need” is my motto . So, if you are not using the VMFS-2 (which you probably aren’t using since ESX 3.x) and/or NFSClient in you environment than you can safely unload these modules from your ESX host. You can list currently loaded modules with #esxcfg-module –q and if you [...]
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