Weird VMWare issue
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@coliver said:
@IRJ said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
Are you accessing via vCenter server and if so do you get the same result if you log in directly to the host? I was just thinking it might be a problem with vCenter server (in which case you can reboot it to fix).
Yes, I am. I plan to reboot tonight after hours. I just wanted to see if anyone has seen anything like this before.
Try accessing directly first.
I am going to ask a stupid question.... How do I do that?
Use the VMware Client and put in the IP address of the VMware host.
I don't know the IP off hand. Anyway to find it through the Vsphere client?
Can you do nslookup on the hostname?
if I knew the hostname that would work.
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LOL. You are just having layers of issues here.
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@IRJ said:
@coliver said:
@IRJ said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
Are you accessing via vCenter server and if so do you get the same result if you log in directly to the host? I was just thinking it might be a problem with vCenter server (in which case you can reboot it to fix).
Yes, I am. I plan to reboot tonight after hours. I just wanted to see if anyone has seen anything like this before.
Try accessing directly first.
I am going to ask a stupid question.... How do I do that?
Use the VMware Client and put in the IP address of the VMware host.
I don't know the IP off hand. Anyway to find it through the Vsphere client?
Can you do nslookup on the hostname?
if I knew the hostname that would work.
It isn't reported in VCenter? I haven't touched VMWare in awhile but it should report which server the virtual machine resides on.
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Do you not have documentation with all this information in it?
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Is this what I am looking for?
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Yes, those should be hostnames.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Do you not have documentation with all this information in it?
yeah there is, but I am not exactly sure where. I am not a one man shop IT deparment so I don't handle everything on a regular basis. I work mostly Windows Servers, AD, Group Policy, etc. So this is a little out of my normal duties. Of course I work other areas, too. When you have 7 people in your IT department, you get specializations of certain areas whether you realize it or not.
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@IRJ said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Do you not have documentation with all this information in it?
yeah there is, but I am not exactly sure where. I am not a one man shop IT deparment so I don't handle everything on a regular basis. I work mostly Windows Servers, AD, Group Policy, etc. So this is a little out of my normal duties. Of course I work other areas, too. When you have 7 people in your IT department, you get specializations of certain areas whether you realize it or not.
We have a lot more than 7. But we still have to know where all the documentation is. You never know who is going to have to do the DR when it happens.
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@IRJ said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Do you not have documentation with all this information in it?
yeah there is, but I am not exactly sure where. I am not a one man shop IT deparment so I don't handle everything on a regular basis. I work mostly Windows Servers, AD, Group Policy, etc. So this is a little out of my normal duties. Of course I work other areas, too. When you have 7 people in your IT department, you get specializations of certain areas whether you realize it or not.
It is amazing how you can specialize like that in such a tiny environment, but it is true.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@IRJ said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Do you not have documentation with all this information in it?
yeah there is, but I am not exactly sure where. I am not a one man shop IT deparment so I don't handle everything on a regular basis. I work mostly Windows Servers, AD, Group Policy, etc. So this is a little out of my normal duties. Of course I work other areas, too. When you have 7 people in your IT department, you get specializations of certain areas whether you realize it or not.
We have a lot more than 7. But we still have to know where all the documentation is. You never know who is going to have to do the DR when it happens.
We have it all on a network share, so I know where it is. I just don't feel like digging since everyone seems to believe a reboot will solve this.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Do you not have documentation with all this information in it?
yeah there is, but I am not exactly sure where. I am not a one man shop IT deparment so I don't handle everything on a regular basis. I work mostly Windows Servers, AD, Group Policy, etc. So this is a little out of my normal duties. Of course I work other areas, too. When you have 7 people in your IT department, you get specializations of certain areas whether you realize it or not.
It is amazing how you can specialize like that in such a tiny environment, but it is true.
yeah, its more or less just happens. Everyone clings to what they know really well or what they really like to do.
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@IRJ a reboot of WHAT do they think will solve it?
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Documentation is in a share, not on a wiki or other repository?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Documentation is in a share, not on a wiki or other repository?
How does that work when the share is down/gone?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Documentation is in a share, not on a wiki or other repository?
correct. I have been trying to get sharepoint put in here, but it hasn't happened.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Documentation is in a share, not on a wiki or other repository?
How does that work when the share is down/gone?
Are you asking me or @IRJ
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@IRJ said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Documentation is in a share, not on a wiki or other repository?
correct. I have been trying to get sharepoint put in here, but it hasn't happened.
Sharepoint takes money and effort. Just fire up MediaWiki or even DokuWiki. Even for a one man shop it helps a lot. Can't imagine having seven and no basic documentation system!
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Documentation is in a share, not on a wiki or other repository?
How does that work when the share is down/gone?
Are you asking me or @IRJ
@IRJ. I quoted the wrong post. If the documentation is on a share it can easily be taken out with an outage.
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I tend to use http://www.pbworks.com/ for documentation wikis
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Documentation is in a share, not on a wiki or other repository?
How does that work when the share is down/gone?
Well its mirrored on two different file servers using DFS. There are on separate hosts. Both Servers are backed up using Veeam and we keep 7 days of full backups for each server.
Not 100% safe, but it would take some serious issues to lose access.
