Re: OS X Guest cloning/deployment best practices
One step closer to something... Found this interesting command: ioreg -rd1 -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | awk '/IOPlatformUUID/ { split($0, line, "\""); printf("%s\n", line[4]); }'The output from this is...
View ArticleRe: Slow Performance Storage on VNXe3300
@johonetdesign: we are writing for storage vMotion issue. Speed is 1000 Mbit for each nic
View ArticleRe: Slow Performance Storage on VNXe3300
Is it only Storage vMotion that are slow or is all data transfer between ESXi hosts and VNXe slow?In earlier posts you wrote that clone also is slow - right?
View ArticleRe: any api to get the boot device information in esxi
Welcome to the communities. I'm not sure what kind of device ID exactly from which point of view you're referring to. You might be able to get a bit of info from this:# esxcli system boot device get...
View ArticleRe: Slow Performance Storage on VNXe3300
Yes clone is slow too. Data trasfer is slow for datastore vMotion and clone.
View ArticleRe: any api to get the boot device information in esxi
by running vmkfstools on /boot, i can get the disk id like naa.xxxxx from which the system is booted. I dont want to parse the output.I want to know if there is any library available, so that from my...
View ArticleRe: Slow Performance Storage on VNXe3300
From the network.png screendump I guess that you are using vSwitch1 to your NFS traffic?What I see in the network.png screendump you are only getting 5 Mb throughput - And yes that is very slow!There...
View ArticleRe: any api to get the boot device information in esxi
there are lots of third party api's floating in the net which uses VMware SDK to get such information or play around the server. If you wish to have your C/C++ code to achieve the same, then you might...
View ArticleRe: Local storage performance issues?
The local storage is presented by a Fujitsu D2616 (almost entirely based on LSI SAS2108) with 4 7200rpm 500GB SAS disks. (THe HBA is not on the VMware HCL but the 2108 is)I assume the RAID controller...
View ArticleRe: OS X Guest cloning/deployment best practices
Its getting more and more obvious that the answer is related to IOPlatformUUID. Anyone have any idea on how to change it? I keep ending up on different hackintosh forums, but I feel that there should...
View ArticleRe: Local storage performance issues?
Thanks MKguy - I was really just looking for this sort of reality check. The customer in this case is spoilt really without realising it giving that just about every other virtualised rig they run is...
View ArticleRe: Specify a config file for vpxclient.exe?
While I am not sure if vpxclient.exe has additional options other than the ones you have specified, a simple workaround would be to create multiple shortcuts of the vpxclient.exe with advanced options...
View ArticleRe: Change ARP cache timeout on vSphere 5.1?
Thank you for your help, greatly appreciated. I will forward this to our network team and see what they think. I was told they have done a wireshark to see what was going on and they saw the following...
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Re: Installing custom VIB on VM
Usually, bootbank after installation comes with a minimum of 100MB free space. I am very curious on what vib you are trying to use that is higher than 100MB. And regarding your questions:Is there a...
View ArticleMultiple Guests Crash
Hi All, I have a single ESXi 5 host running a coupe of VMs. I have recently experienced 3 crash type situations. Although I can still access the host. The symptoms are as follows: All guests a mixture...
View ArticleRe: Installing custom VIB on VM
Thanks a lot for your answer which guided me a lot. By running scripts after installation I meant to ask if there is a way to set the VIB to run commands automatically as a part of the installation...
View ArticleRe: Changing the path max I/O size
Hi, Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, that is not the problem. The DiskMaxIO is set to the default of 32MB. The splitting occurs at 128 KB. The only setting I have found is the 128KB path setting...
View ArticleRe: Multiple Guests Crash
Hello and welcome to the communities. Check out http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2004201 for the log file locations. I would also check in the VM's working location for the actual VM log files.
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Re: OS X Guest cloning/deployment best practices
Hi larsrohdin, That's veeeery interesting. Macs seem to have quite a few UUIDs and serial numbers... I'll investigate this as soon as I have the chance, and will post back with any...
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