{"id":535,"date":"2012-03-16T14:47:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T14:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2012-03-16T14:48:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T14:48:48","slug":"esxi-4-1-configuration-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Esxi 4.1 configuration issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have been looking at an ESX 4.1 cluster recently in which one host was being a bit truculent. After a BIOS upgrade the host seemed to be behaving itself so after a couple of weeks of stress testing with no issues I added it back into the cluster.<\/p>\n

However, nothing would migrate to it and I eventually tracked down three separate issues (note to self):<\/p>\n

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  1. Moving hosts between clusters can confuse the standard switch configuration. You really need to re-create the standard switches each time you add to a cluster.<\/li>\n
  2. An I\/P address was wrong (typo)<\/li>\n
  3. The hash of the NFS datastore UUID was different. On the other hosts in the cluster the datastore had been added with I\/P address and on this one it had been added with NFS server name. ESX essentially thought they were different datastores as 4.1 uses a crude hash to create a UUID (I would have though it should pick up a UUID from the datastore itself).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Caveat implementor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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