Well, updated the firmware of the storage card and still failed to see the datastore. Next thought is that the firmware of the controllers on the datastore are so out of date that nothing newer will work with it. Looks like I am on the latest version of ESXi that will work with this datastore.

So now the plan is to roll back the one host back to the same version of ESXi as the other 2 hosts so that it can see the datastore again and bring it back into production. We are planning on replacing the datastore next year to continue staying up to date.

@jaredbusch said in Does Office 365 Support Plus Notation in Email (+):

@nerdydad said in Does Office 365 Support Plus Notation in Email (+):

It does support @ sign notation. If you are mentioning somebody in the body of an email, you can use the @ and put their name which will give you a drop down. This works in Outlook 2016, but not sure about OWA.

Not what is being discussed.

Oh, okay. My bad.

It does support @ sign notation. If you are mentioning somebody in the body of an email, you can use the @ and put their name which will give you a drop down. This works in Outlook 2016, but not sure about OWA.

@dustinb3403 said in Options for Windows Desktop Deployments without Windows Server:

It works incredibly well, is simple to setup, and simple to maintain your images going forward.

Is it easy to update the image for Windows Updates and necessary applications?

I would think that Ansible and SaltStack are out since they typically don't have tie in to the Windows 10 OS AFAIK. Maybe a FOG server?

@obsolesce said in Domain name opinion:

I like ejsllc.com if available.

Definitely this one. We need a polling system in ML for things like this.

Taco Bell voted best Mexican restaurant in the country

http://www.fox4news.com/home/harris-poll-taco-bell-voted-best-mexican-restaurant-in-the-country-

@wrcombs said in Mobile Back up?:

@aaronstuder said in Mobile Back up?:

Nextcloud

can you elaborate?

Have a Nextcloud instance somewhere. Download the Nextcloud app to your phone and sign in. Setup the app to automatically backup your photos and other items to your Nextcloud instance. You lose your phone or it dies? No problem.

@scottalanmiller said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

Welcome @Mary_Hansen

The second company to join the community this past week - located right on the same road as ML itself! All three of us are well within walking distance of each other. So strange! Small world.

@Mary_Hansen You do know that you are using a self-signed certificate, correct? And not one that has been established by a CA.

Like Scott said, a user is still a user, no matter if they are the CEO or the intern. If you purchase the same license for the whole company, then both will receive the same features. The one thing that can change would be permissions on those features, which would typically be ainistered in either the admin center or powershell.

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud 14 now available:

Mine still shows 13.0.6 as current

Me too.

@storageninja said in Looking for firmware:

@nerdydad said in Looking for firmware:

Definitely not vSAN. All in one datastore and not expanded.

You have an external RAID Array I hope? This HBA does raw pass through well...

Correct. The storage controllers on the storage handles the RAID. Just got off of the phone with Dell support, updated the firmware, and that failed to fix the issue. Next concern would be the firmware being up to date. Working with a Dell PowerVault MD3420 with current firmware version of 08.25.04.60 with the latest from Dell being 08.25.14.60. Biggest concern is the supported OS for the firmware. It is showing that the latest it will support is ESXi 6.5. I think I need to roll the host back to 6.5U1 and plan on replacing this storage next year.

@storageninja said in Looking for firmware:

That doesn't actually matter. You need to check the specific PCI-ID against the VMware VCG (and more specifically vSAN VCG if using vSAN).
For vSphere VCG treat the firmware version as a minimum. For vSAN see that version as an absolute (unless VCG engineering and vSAN GSS advise otherwise).
Given this is an external HBA I'm going to say this isn't vSAN (Not supported with Dell).

Definitely not vSAN. All in one datastore and not expanded.

@storageninja said in Looking for firmware:

The inbox driver is lsi-msgpt3 version 16.00.01.00-1vmw and the firmware minimum is 15.17.09.06

This definitely sounds right. I'll be calling Dell Support today.

Just setup an auditor on the guest wifi, installed another UPS for the HR manager, and getting ready to tackle this storage issue again.

@jt1001001 said in Weekend Plans:

Ham Radio VHF contest this weekend, followed by a late Sunday evening maintenance window at work.

What? What contest? Is it still going?

Transport Layer Rule with HTML as the signature and a public folder with the images.

I contacted VMware support and am thinking that they are full of crap. I'm on driver version 12 and supposedly need to be on version 16. I'm about ready to bang my head against the desk.

Thank you for taking my phone call today. We discovered that the ESXi host connecting to the storage with external HBA "Mass storage controller: Avago (LSI Logic) Dell 12Gbps SAS HBA external" The driver for that device is "lsi-msgpt3 version 12.00.02.00-11vmw" on the ESXi host version 6.5 U1. The ESXi 6.5 U2 host that is not able to communicate with storage have driver version "16.00.01.00-1vmw.650.2.50.8294253" I presume that this issue is related to the firmware version on the PCI device that we try to communicate trough. Please contact your hardware vendor in order to get correct combination and update it accordingly to their recommendation. I will keep this case open and wait for your update as agreed.

Looking for firmware for a 12Gbps SAS HBA PCI card that goes into a Dell PowerEdge R640 server running VMware ESXi 6.7. This is the one thing that is keeping me from attaching the host to the storage. I have attempted to update all of the firmware through the iDRAC and the Lifecycle controller and have no luck with either option. I have downloaded the Linux-bootable ISO that would update firmwares of the host, but didn't update that one.

The PCI card was make by LSI Logics/Broadcom. Anybody have anything?

@scottalanmiller I need to do the same thing. Haven't had my eyes checked in probably 2 years now. I have good vision, but have an astigmatism in both eyes. Haven't had glasses in about a year.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pchiodo is making homemade potato chips.

He seems to be a very handy fellow to have around