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VMware
Troubleshooting Slow VMware Virtual Machine Power On Time
There comes times when you have a single ESXi host that you wish you didn’t! There are certain times when something that is simply for development or staging that supposedly isn’t production, but management may view it as production and…
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vSphere 6.5
Manage Dell RAID in VMware ESXi 6.5 with PERCCLI
We have covered the Avago/LSI StorCLI in past posts and how extremely useful it can be loaded on ESXi servers that have DAS volumes being presented with an Avago/LSI RAID controller. The advantage of loading/using the Avago/LSI StorCLI utility is…
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home lab
Change BBU and RAID Cache Settings with Avago LSI StorCLI
We have covered the functionality before of the Avago LSI StorCLI utility and its capabilities in controlling and interacting with Avago LSI RAID controllers. Just about anything you can do from the RAID BIOS can be done from the StorCLI.…
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VMware
Installing Avago LSI StorCLI VMware ESXi
In our previous post on how to update Avago SMIS provider in VMware ESXi, we discussed how to upgrade your Avago/LSI SMIS provider that allows you to interact with your Avago/LSI card with the Avago Storage Manager utility. However, may…
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VMware
Update Avago LSI SMIS Provider VMware ESXi
If you are running an Avago/LSI RAID controller card in a VMware host, Avago has an SMIS provider that can be installed on the host that allows you to connect a remote Storage Manager utility to the server and interact…
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home lab
How to flash Avago LSI RAID controller firmware with boot disk
In working on provisioning a new Supermicro lab server that is outfitted with an Avago LSI 9380-4i4e SAS RAID controller, one of the first tasks I wanted to complete was flashing the firmware to the latest version. Â There are a…
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Virtualization
ESXi 6.0 Install Can’t Have a Partition Outside the disk
This past week in working with a Supermicro lab host filled with 12 4TB drives, I ran into an issue with the ESXi 6.0 installer that was a bit peculiar – Can’t have a partition outside the disk. Â The storage…
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Computers
Monitor LSI Megaraid RAID controller in VMware
Last week in working with a “whitebox” ESXi server running a VMware lab that was running on an LSI 9280-16i4E controller, the need arose to monitor LSI Megaraid storage controller in VMware and see an initialization process that was running as…