2011/05/20

ESXi 4.0 U1 and DS3500 (SAS), doesn't show multipathing

Had this at a customer site. Basicaly creating a claimrule for the ds3500. Basic summary:
esxcli nmp satp addrule -s VMW_SATP_LSI -V IBM -M "^1746*" -e "IBM DS3500"

You need to reboot to use the claim rules or just force it on a disk via
esxcli corestorage claiming reclaim -d

Full article at
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1012434

2011/05/18

vCenter DB on full and no backups being taken

Results in logs that are to big. Changed the recovery model to simple and executed the following to truncated the log

USE vcms_nieuw
GO
DBCC SHRINKFILE("logicalname_log", 1)
BACKUP LOG vcms_nieuw WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY
DBCC SHRINKFILE("logicalname_log", 1)
GO

This cleaned up the logs. Waiting for the backup guys to take it over from here :)