The following commands show how to configure an HP Smart Array Controller by use of command line utility esxcli. Some time ago, ACU is replaced by Smart Storage Administrator (SSA). So if the command hpacucli doesn´t work for you any more, replace it by hpssacli. To be able to do this, HP offline bundle must be installed on the host.
setting up snmp for esx hosts using esxcli
This post shows the commands need for configuring snmp for esxi hosts
Steps to install VSAN (under construction)
This post contains important steps to create a VSAN-volume in a cluster. The list does not claim to be comprehensive.
design considerations for VSAN
Here are a few facts that sould be concidered by planing and deploying VSAN
performance counter
%IDLE Percentage of time the resource pool, VM, or world was idle. Subtract this percentage from %WAIT to see the percentage of time the resource pool, VM, or world was waiting for some event. The difference, %WAIT- %IDLE, of the vCPU worlds can be used to estimate guest I/O wait time. %RDY Percentage of time the resource pool, VM, or world was ready to run, […]
VSAN configuration minima and maxima
Status at 2014.04 Disk groups [MIN]: 1 per host; [MAX]: 5 per host Flash devices (SAS, SATA, PCIe SSD): 1 per disk group Magnetic disk devices [MIN]: 1 HDD per disk group [MAX]: 7 HDDs per disk group Disk formatting overhead: 750 MB per HDD Nodes in cluster [MIN]: 3 hosts; [MAX]: 32 nodes VMs on VSAN [MAX]: 3200 VMs Components (objects (vmdk, swap, config, snapshot) consist of components) per Host [MAX]: 3000 Memory and CPU overhead [MAX]: 10% […]
Links
official VMware VSAN Sizing Tool OFFICIAL VMware Virtual SAN Blog Index page Virtual SAN Ready Nodes
add (VMware-)snapins at start
# Check if profile-file exists (difference between powershell and powershellISE) Path $profile # create, if it not exists Item -path $profile -type file -force | Out-Null # ADD to prifile file: #Load Windows PowerShell cmdlets for managing vSphere Add-PsSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core -ea “SilentlyContinue” Add-PsSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.VDS -ea “SilentlyContinue” # if necessary, add more snapins according to PowerCLI User Guide
eject CDs
# eject all media from every drive from every VM get-vm |get-cddrive |set-cddrive -nomedia
set syslog settings
# Conncect to vCenter Server/Host Connect-VIServer -Server a.b.c.d -user username -password password Get-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -name Syslog.Remote.Hostname -VMhost fqdn Set-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -name Syslog.Remote.Hostname IP-ADRESSE -VMhost fqdn # show syslog settings Get-VMHost ESXHostnameOrIP | Get-VMHostSysLogServer # set syslog settings Get-VMHost ESXHostnameOrIP | Set-VMHostSysLogServer -SysLogServer SyslogHostnameOrIP -SysLogServerPort PortNumber # for hosts added by Connect-VIServer Get-VMHost | Set-VMHostSysLogServer -SysLogServer a.b.c.d -SysLogServerPort 514
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