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Trying to install Open Manage on a DELL R710 running VMWare 6.0.
http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/how10613/how-to-install-openmanage-server-administrator.
When running the esxcli installer with the uploaded VIB, I get the this:
Downloaded the appropriate file and followed instructions from the following page:
I figure it is something simple, but this is production server in and high usage environment. I know a successful install is going to require a host reboot want to make sure all is good.
http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/how10613/how-to-install-openmanage-server-administrator.
When running the esxcli installer with the uploaded VIB, I get the this:
Downloaded the appropriate file and followed instructions from the following page:I figure it is something simple, but this is production server in and high usage environment. I know a successful install is going to require a host reboot want to make sure all is good.
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Once of the DELL VMWare hosts running a RAID 10 4-disk array appears a problem drive. They had not installed DELL System Mgmt VM app or configure the IDRaC interface, so I am only able to look at the VSphere client interface. The info showed within is confusing to me. The majority of disk status lines show "Normal" / green check mark, there are alerts associated with multiple drives, and references to "Parity Check in Progress - Deassert" and "Rebuild Aborted", "In Critical Array - Assert". I have included screen shots below.
In looking at the front of the server, only 1 of the 4 disk trays has a amber light. The other 3 look fine.
I was gong to just hot swap the amber one, but the VShphere messages are giving me pause. Can anyone provide some insight for me?
In looking at the front of the server, only 1 of the 4 disk trays has a amber light. The other 3 look fine.
I was gong to just hot swap the amber one, but the VShphere messages are giving me pause. Can anyone provide some insight for me?
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I've inherited an Apple Mac Xserve Cluster:-
and as these are Xserve 3,1 are on the HCL for ESXi 5.5. Therefore I can legally accept the Apple EULA, and install Apple macOS Virtual Machines on them, because they have an Apple badge (Apple hardware).
If you do not have an Apple badge on your hardware, you are in breach of the Apple EULA. (Please do not ask me, because this cannot be discussed on Experts Exchange)
and as these are Xserve 3,1 are on the HCL for ESXi 5.5. Therefore I can legally accept the Apple EULA, and install Apple macOS Virtual Machines on them, because they have an Apple badge (Apple hardware).
If you do not have an Apple badge on your hardware, you are in breach of the Apple EULA. (Please do not ask me, because this cannot be discussed on Experts Exchange)
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Considering the age of those boxes, are you able to install the latest version of MacOS VM? Or do you have to run some legacy version?
I'd think High Sierra would choke at some point during the install. Or since it's installing within a VM, there is no real hardware dependency at all?
I'd think High Sierra would choke at some point during the install. Or since it's installing within a VM, there is no real hardware dependency at all?
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The CPU in the hosts are 2.9GHz, 8 Core, Intel® Xeon® Processor X5570. with 96GB RAM.
The benefits of virtualisation, is only the CPU in the Host are passed through to the VM, everything else is virtual, storage is based on flash array - so quick.
So as for High Sierra running the latest and greatest, with no issues, in fact, faster than some Mini Macs! (and with the added benefit, we can tweak adding more RAM and Cores to the VM) than what is available in a physical!
However, we do not have the advantage of added CPU instruction sets, after Nehalem, but most Intel instructions are supported, and we are not using encryption to take advantage of latest Intel CPU instructions.
So for servers that went end of life 7-9 years ago, not bad really...
The benefits of virtualisation, is only the CPU in the Host are passed through to the VM, everything else is virtual, storage is based on flash array - so quick.
So as for High Sierra running the latest and greatest, with no issues, in fact, faster than some Mini Macs! (and with the added benefit, we can tweak adding more RAM and Cores to the VM) than what is available in a physical!
However, we do not have the advantage of added CPU instruction sets, after Nehalem, but most Intel instructions are supported, and we are not using encryption to take advantage of latest Intel CPU instructions.
So for servers that went end of life 7-9 years ago, not bad really...
We are setting up and testing out Citrix XenApp 7.17 and we have
- 3 Microsoft terminal servers
- 1 master server
It appears how this version of Citrix XenApp updates the terminal servers is that you make the change on the master and test it. The when you are ready the Citrix Studio software clones the master server and replaces the 3 terminal servers. As we are testing this out I tried to push some updates (new clones virtual servers) I have run into this errors message from the vsphere client: "Snapshot hierarchy is too deep".
I originally thought it was a Citrix error; but, I now think that this is a VMware error. Please see the screen shots and how many snapshots we have associated with that master virtual server.
I wonder if I should "delete all" snapshots or what I should do. Ideas?
- 3 Microsoft terminal servers
- 1 master server
It appears how this version of Citrix XenApp updates the terminal servers is that you make the change on the master and test it. The when you are ready the Citrix Studio software clones the master server and replaces the 3 terminal servers. As we are testing this out I tried to push some updates (new clones virtual servers) I have run into this errors message from the vsphere client: "Snapshot hierarchy is too deep".
I originally thought it was a Citrix error; but, I now think that this is a VMware error. Please see the screen shots and how many snapshots we have associated with that master virtual server.
I wonder if I should "delete all" snapshots or what I should do. Ideas?
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VMware is virtual machine software that provides a virtualized set of hardware (a video adapter, a network adapter, and hard disk adapters) to the guest operating system. VMware virtual machines become highly portable between computers, because every host looks nearly identical to the guest. In practice, a system administrator can pause operations on a virtual machine guest, move or copy that guest to another physical computer, and there resume execution exactly at the point of suspension. VMware's enterprise software hypervisors for servers, VMware ESX and VMware ESXi are bare-metal embedded Hypervisors that run directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system.
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