ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting
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@StorageNinja said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@pmoncho said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
I have not seen any M.2 on dell servers yet
All 14G servers AFAIK support adding in a "BOSS" card that has 2 M.2 slots.
https://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Dell-PowerEdge-Boot-Optimized-Storage-Solution.pdfMy bad. Forgot about those. It is an additional card though and that is the stinky part.
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@Dashrender said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
by making it a card - it just seems like a way to charge more money, but yeah.. that's what I'm talking about.. Nice to see it's an option.
"By putting it on the motherboard, it just seems like a way to charge everyone who doesn't use for it
An H330 is going to cost you about the same, and wastes 2 drive slots.
FWIW VxRAIL uses BOSS for boot as of 14Gen so there is a decent volume of them in production (For 13Gen they used a high endurance SATADOM device). -
@Dashrender said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@StorageNinja said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@pmoncho said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
I have not seen any M.2 on dell servers yet
All 14G servers AFAIK support adding in a "BOSS" card that has 2 M.2 slots.
https://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/Dell-PowerEdge-Boot-Optimized-Storage-Solution.pdfby making it a card - it just seems like a way to charge more money, but yeah.. that's what I'm talking about.. Nice to see it's an option.
Some SBCs do that, too. Like the Pine64 upper end card.
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What kind of RAID did you set the drives on?
How much RAM?How did you setup the VM? How much storage, ram, vcpus?
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@Dashrender said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
What kind of RAID did you set the drives on?
How much RAM?How did you setup the VM? How much storage, ram, vcpus?
I’m at home now, but will try to answer to the best of my ability until I get back.
- RAID 5
- I tried ESXi 6.5, 6.7 & 6.7 U2, with Dell OEM 6.7 U2 on host.
- I originally was doing 20GB RAM, 2.5 TB HD, but later tried more basic 16GB RAM, 500GB HD
- CPU 2 Socket 2 core and 4 socket 1 core really just mixing it up at this point hoping anything will be different.
- I tried selecting SCSI Controller VMWare Paravirtual, but when I install VMWare Tools to load the driver so I can see the Partitions, it only lets me select the AMD64 which is wrong. Then it tells me I can’t install windows on the partition. So I was using the default LSI Logical SAS.
I made sure Virtualization was on in BIOS, and tried turning on Turbo, but not getting anywhere as of yet.
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@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
RAID 5
Why raid 5 today with all of the evidence that it's dead tech. Are these SSDs that makeup the array?
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@DustinB3403 said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
RAID 5
Why raid 5 today with all of the evidence that it's dead tech. Are these SSDs that makeup the array?
My boss configured the RAID, and yes they are SSD’s.
Would you recommend 10?
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@DustinB3403 said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
RAID 5
Why raid 5 today with all of the evidence that it's dead tech. Are these SSDs that makeup the array?
Additionally, I just got them to buy me some Thumb Drives (verbatim 32 GB). Thinking of running RAID 1 on those for ESXi (is it possible to do that with one partitioned USB or maybe that’s a bad idea because if the thing fails it all failed right?). At least until we can get an internal M.2 or SD setup going.
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@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@DustinB3403 said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
RAID 5
Why raid 5 today with all of the evidence that it's dead tech. Are these SSDs that makeup the array?
My boss configured the RAID, and yes they are SSD’s.
Would you recommend 10?
RAID 5 on SSD should be fine. It's the old-fashioned spinners that the major issues exist with.
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@travisdh1 said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@DustinB3403 said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
RAID 5
Why raid 5 today with all of the evidence that it's dead tech. Are these SSDs that makeup the array?
My boss configured the RAID, and yes they are SSD’s.
Would you recommend 10?
RAID 5 on SSD should be fine. It's the old-fashioned spinners that the major issues exist with.
Yeah with an SSD array you're fine, but with spinning rust I'd consider RAID 6 or RAID10
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@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
but when I install VMWare Tools to load the driver so I can see the Partitions, it only lets me select the AMD64 which is wrong.
How could AMD64 be wrong? What other possibility is there? VMware only runs on AMD64.
What are you running? You don't have a Power or Itanium system, do you?
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@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@DustinB3403 said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
RAID 5
Why raid 5 today with all of the evidence that it's dead tech. Are these SSDs that makeup the array?
My boss configured the RAID, and yes they are SSD’s.
Would you recommend 10?
Not likely, RAID 5 is perfectly fine there. RAID 10 is likely overkill. But RAID 5 definitely would push you to a powerful RAID card.
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@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
CPU 2 Socket 2 core and 4 socket 1 core really just mixing it up at this point hoping anything will be different.
That doesn't change anything. It's a licensing thing, not a tech thing.
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For s&h why not try Hyper-V as the hypervisor, then setup a Windows VM
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@Dashrender said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
For s&h why not try Hyper-V as the hypervisor, then setup a Windows VM
S&H, not Ss&Gs?
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@Dashrender said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
why not try Hyper-V as the hypervisor, then setup a Windows VM
If you are going to try something, try KVM. Faster, easier, less likely to have weird things happen. Hyper-V is good, but if you are starting over, might as well make life as easy as possible.
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@scottalanmiller said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
but when I install VMWare Tools to load the driver so I can see the Partitions, it only lets me select the AMD64 which is wrong.
How could AMD64 be wrong? What other possibility is there? VMware only runs on AMD64.
What are you running? You don't have a Power or Itanium system, do you?
I was assuming the driver should have been the Intel driver (as that’s an option too) because I have an Intel Xeon, but you’re saying it’s for use by ESXi, for ESXi and not for use by ESXi for the chipset installed. I guess I misunderstood that.
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@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@scottalanmiller said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
but when I install VMWare Tools to load the driver so I can see the Partitions, it only lets me select the AMD64 which is wrong.
How could AMD64 be wrong? What other possibility is there? VMware only runs on AMD64.
What are you running? You don't have a Power or Itanium system, do you?
I was assuming the driver should have been the Intel driver (as that’s an option too) because I have an Intel Xeon, but you’re saying it’s for use by ESXi, for ESXi and not for use by ESXi for the chipset installed. I guess I misunderstood that.
Never mind I googled i386 and realized it’s pretty much the 32 bit version.
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@scottalanmiller said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@Dashrender said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
For s&h why not try Hyper-V as the hypervisor, then setup a Windows VM
S&H, not Ss&Gs?
I got that 1!
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@scottalanmiller said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@Dashrender said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
For s&h why not try Hyper-V as the hypervisor, then setup a Windows VM
S&H, not Ss&Gs?
I don’t know what these are.
