Perth-based IT enthusiast
My home lab has been running with primary storage provided via an all-flash implementation of VMware vSAN for almost 4 years now. The underlying drives are consumer-grade Samsung 850 EVO 120gb (cache) and 500gb (capacity) SSD drives. Six months ago, Continue reading Replacing a failed vSAN cache drive
I recently had a client with some ESXi hosts having intermittent issues with NFS storage. After checking vmkernel.log (and confirming via vodb.log) I found that these hosts were reporting IP conflict errors. Someone bought extra drinks that night! The following Continue reading Finding ESXi hosts with IP conflicts
I came across this post by /u/thakala on Reddit, which covers a scenario where ESXi 6.7 U2 is apparently causing dropped packets for Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) workloads. No specific support ticket has been raised with VMware according to the Continue reading ESXi 6.7 U2 breaks jumbo frames within VLAN trunk portgroups
While migrating VM’s between a 6.0 and 6.5 vCenter, I came across an error that stopped the migrations from happening. The error was “The destination distributed switch has a different version or vendor than the source distributed switch“. Comparing the Continue reading vDS version mismatches during cross-vCenter migrations
After a recent power outage that lasted longer than my UPS runtime, I found that one of my ESXi hosts wasn’t online. A quick look at the console screen showed that ESXi had attempted to boot and failed with Fatal Continue reading Fatal error: 33 (Inconsistent data)