Yup. On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 09:34, N Parr <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe you should recalculate that ROI after this incident. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 11:32 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot > > Correct - no support. Budget cuts ate that. > > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 06:34, N Parr <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes in the olden days when we were on 3.5 and DAS I would get the pink >> screen of death and new Perc firmware fixed that. Just a stupid question >> but I assume you don't have a maint contract with VMWare or you would have >> opened a case with them right? In the past when I've has similar issues as >> this they've been able to resolve it for me over a webex very quickly. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 9:05 PM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot >> >> You are reading my mind... >> >> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 17:01, Klint Price <[email protected]> wrote: >>> No problem.... I have had some 2950's on ESX go haywire with DAS when there >>> was high IO going on, requiring a reboot. You may want to check for newer >>> firmware for the card and related hardware. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:07 PM >>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>> Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot >>> >>> BTW... >>> >>> Damian and Klint and Karl: Thanks for your help on this. I really >>> appreciate it. >>> >>> Kurt >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 15:39, Klint Price <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Remember to power off all guests, and put in maintenance mode in case you >>>> need to reboot several times. You may also want to shut off auto power-on >>>> so you can bring them back online one at a time. >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Klint Price [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:38 PM >>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>> Subject: RE: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot >>>> >>>> Ok, a 2950 has dual core Xeons. Don't worry about the 90% on Proc 0 as >>>> your average load is coming in around 60%. >>>> >>>> Let me know the results of your reboot process. >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:24 PM >>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>> Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot >>>> >>>> Dual proc, dual core. >>>> >>>> Proc 0 = 90.72% avg >>>> Proc 1 = 50.18% avg >>>> Proc 2 = 49.49% avg >>>> Proc 4 = 49.74% avg >>>> >>>> Total is 59.74% avg >>>> >>>> But it's been higher than that all the time I've been >>>> troubleshooting this problem. >>>> >>>> Kurt >>>> >>>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 15:12, Klint Price <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> 90% utilization after downing two servers? Is that 90% on a single core, >>>>> or 90% total? >>>>> >>>>> How many other VMs do you have on the LUN(s) that are still powered on? >>>>> Any more than the two referenced below? >>>>> >>>>> What is the output / top CPU utilization pct for the processes found by >>>>> running: >>>>> >>>>> #top (from SSH) >>>>> >>>>> (exit with CTRL-C) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] >>>>> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:04 PM >>>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>>> Subject: Re: OTish: ESX 3.5 guest won't boot >>>>> >>>>> In line... >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 14:40, Klint Price <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> 1) I wouldn't expect a power on to work until you can get this command >>>>>> to work: >>>>>> >>>>>> vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/esx2\:storage1/sus/sus.vmdk >>>>>> >>>>>> The host needs to be able to read from the disk. >>>>> >>>>> Reasonable. >>>>> >>>>>> 2) Do you have an additional non-production server on the same LUN >>>>>> that can be powered off, with an attempt to restart your current down >>>>>> server? Result? >>>>>> Will the 2nd non-production server power back on? >>>>> >>>>> Yes. It's acting in a similar way - I logged in, and it shut down >>>>> fine, but it won't power up now. Nor will a machine that I had >>>>> powered >>>>> >>>>>> 3) All things DR considered, can you schedule a reboot tonight? >>>>>> If so, you may want to consider re-seating the HBA and drives, >>>>>> clear dust (which can cause cards to overheat), and reboot. >>>>> >>>>> Gotcha. >>>>> >>>>> One last thing for the moment: I've been looking at the performance >>>>> chart for this box, and see that CPU utilization is hovering around >>>>> 90%. 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