Posts made by G I Jones

@black3dynamite said in New VM keeps turning off:

UEFI or BIOS VM?
If UEFI, is secure boot enabled?

UEFI, Secure Boot is Disabled

@DustinB3403 said in New VM keeps turning off:

@G-I-Jones said in New VM keeps turning off:

VMWare Tools

Yes.

If the guest has the drivers installed, it may be worth enabling verbose logging so you get some more details from the system.

Thanks, I'll do that now.

@DustinB3403 said in New VM keeps turning off:

Did you install the ESXi Guest drivers (the guest should auto-detect and install them) but it may not have. Click on your VM's disk drive and mount the guest additions iso.

You can check the hardware manager as well to see if there are ESXi or Citrix devices listed in there.

Are we talking about VMWare Tools again? If so, check that box.

@DustinB3403 said in New VM keeps turning off:

@G-I-Jones What hypervisor are you using?

Dell OEM ESXi 6.7 Update 2

@DustinB3403 said in New VM keeps turning off:

@G-I-Jones Are the guest drivers installed, is your host up to date, have you installed updates on the guest?

Host is up-to-date for sure. I just installed updates to the Guest right before replying to this, are you thinking it's a bad update or lack of? Not too sure what drivers you mean.

As the title suggests the new Guest (Exchange 2016 Server) keeps going down unexpectedly and about once a day. I don't know if it's the whole host, or the Guest itself as I don't notice it until I get calls about Outlook not connecting, but I'm finding no reason or cause.

I've checked Event Viewer>Windows Logs>System and found:

"Error - EventLog - The previous shut down at 8:59:29 AM on 2/4/2020 was unexpected"

Looking through the logs, there's a gap from 8:44:50 - 9:37:33; Probably when I realized it was down and restarted the Guest. The last log at 8:44 is just a Windows Update service information log. Nothing stands out to me as being off, and checking the iDRAC I found everything to be in order as well.

What would be some steps you might take to troubleshoot this?

[Solved]

After re-configuring the Server setup to run ESXi via USB internal (for now) and completely CLEARING each drive (because I installed ESXi on the RAID 5 array initially and if you do that, it ruins everything and your drives disappear), I re-allocated the drives to RAID 5, and re-installed ESXi DELL OEM 6.7 Update 2 to the USB on host. I was able to build the Guest and everything worked fine except Network Shares. I was back at square one on that front. Turns out it was a bad switch (Netgear 8 port) the host was plugged in to.

@Dashrender I just sign them in, open two finder windows (one with their old, one with their new) and drag and drop. It's the same domain, but we dropped the old AD/DC into oblivion.

Then why do you have to rejoin?

@Dashrender I can see how that was confusing. It's an entirely new domain. I meant we just reused the previous domain name again, and there were not, at any time, two separate domains in operation.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@G-I-Jones said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

New AD/DC built. Took 3.5 hours to write owner permissions to the NAS. Today I tackle adding the rest of 200+ computers to the network, and if I get time... start rebuilding Group Policy.

are you using any migration path for the users' old profiles?

@Dashrender I just sign them in, open two finder windows (one with their old, one with their new) and drag and drop. It's the same domain, but we dropped the old AD/DC into oblivion.

New AD/DC built. Took 3.5 hours to write owner permissions to the NAS. Today I tackle adding the rest of 200+ computers to the network, and if I get time... start rebuilding Group Policy.

I haven't played online and I only have about 4 hours into the story mode... but I'm not loving it so far. Everything feels really clunky to me for some reason. I'm not used to holding a certain key vs. tapping it for a different result. I also hate how slow looting is; I understand it's intentionally that way, but I still don't like it. It's a beautiful game, and I want to love it, but it might just not be the right game for me.

Looting animations are very extra.

@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.

@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.

@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.

@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.

@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?

@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.

@scottalanmiller said in Exchange 2016 Install Issue:

@G-I-Jones said in Exchange 2016 Install Issue:

@scottalanmiller said in Exchange 2016 Install Issue:

@G-I-Jones said in Exchange 2016 Install Issue:

@scottalanmiller said in [Exchange

Local admin account, PowerShell, SSH.... five minutes to fix

I need that script

Do you already have a local admin account on each machine that is working and SSH enabled?

I’d have to look into the SSH part, but yea.

SSH is off by default. Without that, maybe PowerShell Remoting will work? You need something to let you on each machine individually to run things.

We have Dameware. I wonder if that could be of use.

@scottalanmiller said in Exchange 2016 Install Issue:

@G-I-Jones said in Exchange 2016 Install Issue:

I feel like it’s a BIOS/RAID setting or something. I’m honestly feeling my way through the dark at this point as I dont know a lot about RAID stuff other than memorizing the RAID levels.

New thread for that. But something seems wrong there, even hosed RAID should be really fast for basic operations.

We’ll pick this up here:

https://mangolassi.it/topic/21106/esxi-6-7-troubleshooting/77