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Finding ESXi hosts with IP conflicts

Posted on 2019/06/19 by Kyle McDonald — No Comments ↓

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→

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ESXi 6.7 U2 breaks jumbo frames within VLAN trunk portgroups

Posted on 2019/05/16 by Kyle McDonald — No Comments ↓

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→

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vDS version mismatches during cross-vCenter migrations

Posted on 2019/03/09 by Kyle McDonald — No Comments ↓

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→

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Fatal error: 33 (Inconsistent data)

Posted on 2019/02/04 by Kyle McDonald — No Comments ↓

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)→

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vSAN and memory usage alerts for home labs

Posted on 2019/01/01 by Kyle McDonald — No Comments ↓

After using NFS-based storage in my home lab for a number of years, I wanted to try out vSAN. This was to play with the technology itself, as well as to make my storage a little faster where needed for Continue reading vSAN and memory usage alerts for home labs→

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