Re: Installed ESXi on USB/Flash but swap does not seem to have been placed on...
As I was interested in how this exactly looks like, I installed ESXi on an USB stick. The default scratch location is "/tmp/scratch". I'm still unsure why you still see the logs after a reboot though!?...
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You're right, it doesn't. I checked the first few characters and the last bunch after the dash and those matched up, but the full string doesn't. That's a lesson on why you shouldn't take shortcuts...
View ArticleRe: Installed ESXi on USB/Flash but swap does not seem to have been placed on...
That is what I have read everywhere - that the default location is /tmp/scratch - and that's why I was very confused when that's not what my default was. To be sure that I didn't miss something I have...
View ArticleWrites Occured in the Primary and Replica Volumes in VSA
In VSA whatever the writes occured in one of the VSA Datastore those are simultaneously written in the Primary Volume and Replica of this Primary Volume or not?
View ArticleRe: Overwhelmed Information, Simple approach
You can certainly use agent based backup without an ESXi license requirement. The license is only required in case you need to unlock the API or your host has more than 32GB of physical memory.For...
View ArticleRe: Installed ESXi on USB/Flash but swap does not seem to have been placed on...
What could make a difference is whether there's already a datastore available on the host!? I did a fresh installation without any partitions already created on the HDD. André
View ArticleDirectPath NIC AR8161
Hello, I've configured an esxi 5.1 with the latest patch on a z77-DS3H everything works as expected but the nic which I knew wasn't supported so I passed it to one of my win7 VM the problem is it...
View ArticleRe: Writes Occured in the Primary and Replica Volumes in VSA
Yes, from http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/09/19/vsphere-storage-appliance-why-i-think-it-is-cool/Note that this is a synchronous technique, so an acknowledgement is required from both the active and...
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View ArticleRe: Installed ESXi on USB/Flash but swap does not seem to have been placed on...
My first install was on the same system but without any hard drives and it had the same effect. I added the two hard drives noted for the second install because I was wanted to make sure that the USB...
View ArticleRe: Installed ESXi on USB/Flash but swap does not seem to have been placed on...
At least from the files in the folder (your previous post) this looks like a VMFS datastore. Do you see the UUID associated with a datastore running e.g.ls -la /vmfs/volumesAnyway, I'm running a second...
View ArticleRe: Installed ESXi on USB/Flash but swap does not seem to have been placed on...
In the new installation with an existing datastore on the HDD, the ".locker" folder was created on the existing datastore. This explains why the logs survived the reboot. You can easily see the...
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Re: Capacity and performance Trending reports
Ok, I looked at all possible causes from all angles I can think off, but I couldn't find anything conclusive. In vSphere 4.1 performance counters for NFS datastores were introduced.See What’s New in...
View ArticleRe: Lab Manager vs. vCloud
Hi, I relay appreciate your help.Thanks on the document, it is well written and help me a lot.I'm still missing a document similar to your great doc with other method on how deploy large scale of...
View ArticleStorage for 22 virtual machines
HiI am running Vmware Capacity planner about two weeks, Results got until now, are attached on, see below What would be a better Storage between the following two: IBM Storwize V3700:Two...
View ArticlevCD 5.1: retrieving VimObjectRef for OrgVdcNetwork
In vCD 1.5, the AdminOrgNetwork object had a VCloudExtension that allowed me to retrieve its VimObjectRef (in fact, it was even exposed via the GetNetworkVimRef method).It seems that the vCD 5.1 API...
View ArticleRe: Disk management breaks my VM
The snapshot file is 23Gig, and is definitely in use. Most of that is probably temp files that I created (in an attempt to fill the empty disk space with zeros to enable maximum compaction.) Reverting...
View Article[Bug] vmware-usbarbitrator64.exe memory leak
vmware-usbarbitrator64.exe memory use increase by about 200 m/day. $ wmic process get Name,CreationDate,PageFileUsage,PeakPageFileUsage|grep vmware-usbarbitrator64 && date -u...
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Re: Capacity and performance Trending reports
PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI> Get-Datastore -Name datastore4 |>> Get-VMHost |>> Select Version,Build,ApiVersion>>Version...
View ArticleRe: Installed ESXi on USB/Flash but swap does not seem to have been placed on...
I just tried installing on a different USB stick with more or less the same results. When I rebooted using the original USB stick I opened this thread for I do see that the scratch directory has...
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