VSphere 5.5 Health Check
Hi everyone
I am wondering if there is a simple way to test the "health" of my vSphere/ESXi 5.5 environment. I have fairly recently replaced the previous IT manager. Since then I am looking to put things such as automatic back up of VMs, which we never previously had, relying solely on shadow copy for file restores.
I have been trialling a version of Altaro, which seems to fit the bill, however, I am getting error messages and failed backups. I have been in contact with Altaro who have been really good, but they are saying they can lots of errors in the vmkwarning.log which could be causing issues with the backups and which may affect the VMs in general.
2015-10-23T06:25:19.353Z cpu8:14118080) WARNING: HBX: 1713: HB [HB state abcdef02 offset 3907584 gen 9 stampUS 8194248481598 uuid 55acca9d-c70ed854-c888-002
2015-10-23T06:26:03.353Z cpu8:14118080) WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceRequestFastDevic
I am not confident that the vSphere environment has ever been 100 % right, so trying to get an idea of where to start.
Any assistance would be great.
Thanks
Matthew
I am wondering if there is a simple way to test the "health" of my vSphere/ESXi 5.5 environment. I have fairly recently replaced the previous IT manager. Since then I am looking to put things such as automatic back up of VMs, which we never previously had, relying solely on shadow copy for file restores.
I have been trialling a version of Altaro, which seems to fit the bill, however, I am getting error messages and failed backups. I have been in contact with Altaro who have been really good, but they are saying they can lots of errors in the vmkwarning.log which could be causing issues with the backups and which may affect the VMs in general.
2015-10-23T06:25:19.353Z cpu8:14118080) WARNING: HBX: 1713: HB [HB state abcdef02 offset 3907584 gen 9 stampUS 8194248481598 uuid 55acca9d-c70ed854-c888-002
2015-10-23T06:26:03.353Z cpu8:14118080) WARNING: NMP: nmp_DeviceRequestFastDevic
I am not confident that the vSphere environment has ever been 100 % right, so trying to get an idea of where to start.
Any assistance would be great.
Thanks
Matthew
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Thanks for the suggestions, I'm about to set up the vSphere Optimization Assesment and see what comes out from that.
With regards to our SANs we have 3 Drobo B1200i which are iSCSI - They are on Firmware version 1.2.0.
The version of ESXi that we are currently running is 5.5.0 (1623387). I know there have been updates to this, but I am reluctant to update at the moment as I believe there have been problems with the latest ESXi patch.
I will check through the other things as well and see what the vSphere optimizer comes back with.
Thanks again for all your great suggestions.
Matthew
With regards to our SANs we have 3 Drobo B1200i which are iSCSI - They are on Firmware version 1.2.0.
The version of ESXi that we are currently running is 5.5.0 (1623387). I know there have been updates to this, but I am reluctant to update at the moment as I believe there have been problems with the latest ESXi patch.
I will check through the other things as well and see what the vSphere optimizer comes back with.
Thanks again for all your great suggestions.
Matthew
You'll get lots of things to check, after it's been run.
http://www.kendrickcoleman.com/index.php/Tech-Blog/a-list-of-free-vmware-vsphere-tools.html
Do you know a partner, which can guide you through their assessment tools, and provide health checks.
Or you could use Sonar by http://xtravirt.com/company-news/9030-2
or you could also use Opvizor trial
https://www.opvizor.com/blog/opvizor-health-analyzer-websession-review/