ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting
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@Dashrender said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
What kind of RAID did you set the drives on?
How much RAM?How did you setup the VM? How much storage, ram, vcpus?
I’m at home now, but will try to answer to the best of my ability until I get back.
- RAID 5
- I tried ESXi 6.5, 6.7 & 6.7 U2, with Dell OEM 6.7 U2 on host.
- I originally was doing 20GB RAM, 2.5 TB HD, but later tried more basic 16GB RAM, 500GB HD
- CPU 2 Socket 2 core and 4 socket 1 core really just mixing it up at this point hoping anything will be different.
- I tried selecting SCSI Controller VMWare Paravirtual, but when I install VMWare Tools to load the driver so I can see the Partitions, it only lets me select the AMD64 which is wrong. Then it tells me I can’t install windows on the partition. So I was using the default LSI Logical SAS.
I made sure Virtualization was on in BIOS, and tried turning on Turbo, but not getting anywhere as of yet.
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@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
RAID 5
Why raid 5 today with all of the evidence that it's dead tech. Are these SSDs that makeup the array?
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@DustinB3403 said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
RAID 5
Why raid 5 today with all of the evidence that it's dead tech. Are these SSDs that makeup the array?
My boss configured the RAID, and yes they are SSD’s.
Would you recommend 10?
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@DustinB3403 said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
RAID 5
Why raid 5 today with all of the evidence that it's dead tech. Are these SSDs that makeup the array?
Additionally, I just got them to buy me some Thumb Drives (verbatim 32 GB). Thinking of running RAID 1 on those for ESXi (is it possible to do that with one partitioned USB or maybe that’s a bad idea because if the thing fails it all failed right?). At least until we can get an internal M.2 or SD setup going.
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@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@DustinB3403 said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
RAID 5
Why raid 5 today with all of the evidence that it's dead tech. Are these SSDs that makeup the array?
My boss configured the RAID, and yes they are SSD’s.
Would you recommend 10?
RAID 5 on SSD should be fine. It's the old-fashioned spinners that the major issues exist with.
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@travisdh1 said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@DustinB3403 said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
RAID 5
Why raid 5 today with all of the evidence that it's dead tech. Are these SSDs that makeup the array?
My boss configured the RAID, and yes they are SSD’s.
Would you recommend 10?
RAID 5 on SSD should be fine. It's the old-fashioned spinners that the major issues exist with.
Yeah with an SSD array you're fine, but with spinning rust I'd consider RAID 6 or RAID10
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@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
but when I install VMWare Tools to load the driver so I can see the Partitions, it only lets me select the AMD64 which is wrong.
How could AMD64 be wrong? What other possibility is there? VMware only runs on AMD64.
What are you running? You don't have a Power or Itanium system, do you?
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@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@DustinB3403 said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
RAID 5
Why raid 5 today with all of the evidence that it's dead tech. Are these SSDs that makeup the array?
My boss configured the RAID, and yes they are SSD’s.
Would you recommend 10?
Not likely, RAID 5 is perfectly fine there. RAID 10 is likely overkill. But RAID 5 definitely would push you to a powerful RAID card.
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@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
CPU 2 Socket 2 core and 4 socket 1 core really just mixing it up at this point hoping anything will be different.
That doesn't change anything. It's a licensing thing, not a tech thing.
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For s&h why not try Hyper-V as the hypervisor, then setup a Windows VM
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@Dashrender said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
For s&h why not try Hyper-V as the hypervisor, then setup a Windows VM
S&H, not Ss&Gs?
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@Dashrender said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
why not try Hyper-V as the hypervisor, then setup a Windows VM
If you are going to try something, try KVM. Faster, easier, less likely to have weird things happen. Hyper-V is good, but if you are starting over, might as well make life as easy as possible.
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@scottalanmiller said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
but when I install VMWare Tools to load the driver so I can see the Partitions, it only lets me select the AMD64 which is wrong.
How could AMD64 be wrong? What other possibility is there? VMware only runs on AMD64.
What are you running? You don't have a Power or Itanium system, do you?
I was assuming the driver should have been the Intel driver (as that’s an option too) because I have an Intel Xeon, but you’re saying it’s for use by ESXi, for ESXi and not for use by ESXi for the chipset installed. I guess I misunderstood that.
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@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@scottalanmiller said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
but when I install VMWare Tools to load the driver so I can see the Partitions, it only lets me select the AMD64 which is wrong.
How could AMD64 be wrong? What other possibility is there? VMware only runs on AMD64.
What are you running? You don't have a Power or Itanium system, do you?
I was assuming the driver should have been the Intel driver (as that’s an option too) because I have an Intel Xeon, but you’re saying it’s for use by ESXi, for ESXi and not for use by ESXi for the chipset installed. I guess I misunderstood that.
Never mind I googled i386 and realized it’s pretty much the 32 bit version.
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@scottalanmiller said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@Dashrender said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
For s&h why not try Hyper-V as the hypervisor, then setup a Windows VM
S&H, not Ss&Gs?
I got that 1!
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@scottalanmiller said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@Dashrender said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
For s&h why not try Hyper-V as the hypervisor, then setup a Windows VM
S&H, not Ss&Gs?
I don’t know what these are.
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@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@scottalanmiller said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@Dashrender said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
For s&h why not try Hyper-V as the hypervisor, then setup a Windows VM
S&H, not Ss&Gs?
I don’t know what these are.
I have no idea what S&H is. But Ss&Gs are "shits and giggles".
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@scottalanmiller said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
but when I install VMWare Tools to load the driver so I can see the Partitions, it only lets me select the AMD64 which is wrong.
How could AMD64 be wrong? What other possibility is there? VMware only runs on AMD64.
What are you running? You don't have a Power or Itanium system, do you?
What Scott means is that today, Intel and AMD both make their 64 bit chips based on the AMD64 spec. Intel's original 64 bit spec failed compared to AMD's spec, so AMDs won, just like Intel's won in the past and everyone cloned/copied that.
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@scottalanmiller said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@Dashrender said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
For s&h why not try Hyper-V as the hypervisor, then setup a Windows VM
S&H, not Ss&Gs?
yeah, that was supposed to be S&G...
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@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@scottalanmiller said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
@G-I-Jones said in ESXi 6.7 Troubleshooting:
but when I install VMWare Tools to load the driver so I can see the Partitions, it only lets me select the AMD64 which is wrong.
How could AMD64 be wrong? What other possibility is there? VMware only runs on AMD64.
What are you running? You don't have a Power or Itanium system, do you?
I was assuming the driver should have been the Intel driver (as that’s an option too) because I have an Intel Xeon, but you’re saying it’s for use by ESXi, for ESXi and not for use by ESXi for the chipset installed. I guess I misunderstood that.
Never mind I googled i386 and realized it’s pretty much the 32 bit version.
IA32 / i386 = Intel 32bit
IA64 = Itaniam (Intel's dead 64bit idea)
AMD64 = Modern 64bit that replaced i386AMD64 is the only platform supported by Windows or VMware or Hyper-V. It's the only 64bit PC platform. Everything you think of as a modern computer is AMD64. And it is why we say "Genuine AMD" because Intel only makes clones (reversed from the 32bit era when AMD made Intel clones.) Absolutely no one has used "Intel architecture" in years, everything is AMD based today.
The only major alternative to AMD today is ARM, that's what is used in phones and Raspberry Pi. But only Linux and BSD run on that platform currently.
