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ESXi 6 and Self-Encrypting SDCards
We just got some new blades that are coming with self-encrypting SDcards...
The SDcards are mirrored. During the install ESXI detect the Sdcard store as mpx...... which is usually the CD-Rom drive. The install did complete. When I connect to the host directly I do not see a datastore that was automatically created but when I go to add storage it sees the extra space on the SDcard.
Is this normal? I have never used this type of SDcard before in ESXi.
The SDcards are mirrored. During the install ESXI detect the Sdcard store as mpx...... which is usually the CD-Rom drive. The install did complete. When I connect to the host directly I do not see a datastore that was automatically created but when I go to add storage it sees the extra space on the SDcard.
Is this normal? I have never used this type of SDcard before in ESXi.
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Very interesting!!!!!
Why do SD cards detect as mpx...... Also since not local datastore is created what will happen to the scratch partition? Why does VMware see the extra fee space on the sdcard for use to create a small datastore?
Thanks Again Hancock!!!!
Why do SD cards detect as mpx...... Also since not local datastore is created what will happen to the scratch partition? Why does VMware see the extra fee space on the sdcard for use to create a small datastore?
Thanks Again Hancock!!!!
It depends on how the SD card is presented as device with the hardware.
There is no scratch partition, you will need to define one, or redirect logs to a shard LUN etc
Persistance locations, syslog and all that....
It detects the space because it's not allocated and a VMFS partition can be created.
We actually use a shared LUN, which we send all or syslog and logs to, this is LUN is our Log LUN, for All hosts, we just use a different folder/directory for each Hosts logs.
There is no scratch partition, you will need to define one, or redirect logs to a shard LUN etc
Persistance locations, syslog and all that....
It detects the space because it's not allocated and a VMFS partition can be created.
We actually use a shared LUN, which we send all or syslog and logs to, this is LUN is our Log LUN, for All hosts, we just use a different folder/directory for each Hosts logs.
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Thanks!!! I am jus to confused because the ESXI install is around 4GB and my sdcard is 30GB yet when I click on add storage I do not see the added space on the sdcard listed
You mean you cannot use the free space ?
ASKER
correct that would let me create the local datastore is I wanted...
I am trying to understand if I am doing something wrong since this is the first time I am using sd
I am trying to understand if I am doing something wrong since this is the first time I am using sd
No, you are using them as supplied, 32GB is a little large, as 8GB or 16GB are fine.
But if thats as supplied I would not worry. What's important is that they are good quality, and not Walmart.
They are mirrored, so you've got resilience, you may want to test this, by failing one (e.g. removing!)
But if thats as supplied I would not worry. What's important is that they are good quality, and not Walmart.
They are mirrored, so you've got resilience, you may want to test this, by failing one (e.g. removing!)
ASKER
ok so it sounds like for what you are saying when using SD it will not see the extra space after the OS install.... If this it the case and am still confused as to why..
Thanks you for the great help as always
Thanks you for the great help as always
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We don't usually bother creating a datastore on the space capacity, it confuses Admins!