stuff and things from the virtual world
Mar
02
2010
Run in to a small bug using resxtop within the VMware vMA.
When looking at disk adapter information, all counters for non local adapters display as 0. This is the same in ESX and ESXi.
I’ve raised this as an SR with VMware and they have replicated the issue in their labs and passed it to Engineering. I’ll post an update when I get one.
Feb
23
2010
Ran in to an issue before Christmas whereby ESXi would take over 10 minutes to boot. The issue appeared to be with regards to certain LUNs timing out during the rescan operation.
Upon further investigation, the LUNs causing the issue were RDMs connected to a MSCS cluster. The workaround for this was to set the Scsi.UWConflictRetries from 1000 (default) to 80. Whilst this shortens the boot time, it’s still relatively long and really worrying when utilising DPM.
KB1016106 covers this topic in full.
