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Equallogic warning: Free space is below threshold of 15 percent for pool PoolName. Default Snapshot Schedule will run with max-keep set to 1

By Antti Hurme 25/11/2016 1 Comment 0 Min Read

EQL SANs have a new feature since 8.x FW which enables a default snapshot policy which might be unwanted. The error in question is as following. WARNING event from storage array EQLName subsystem: MgmtExec event: 8.3.65 time: Wed Jun 12 00:00:05 2016 Free space is below threshold of 15 percent for pool PoolName. Default Snapshot Schedule will run with max-keep set to 1. You can’t disable this snapshot policy using the…

ESXi APD&PDL – Part 2 Recovery from unexpected lost iSCSI LUN

VMware

By Antti Hurme 27/11/2013 1 Comment 8 Min Read

ESXi APD&PDL – Part 2 Recovery from unexpected lost iSCSI LUN

This is a continuation on a post I wrote earlier regarding VMware iSCSI All Paths Down and Permanent Device Loss. If you havn’t seen part 1, i would recommend checking that out here. NOTE!: As with the previous post, I take no responsibility if you damage your own environment. Anything written here should be considered as helpful information debugging and solving your own problem. Take all possible precautions before you…

Get VM’s that require consolidation and approve consolidation

Development VMware

By Antti Hurme 16/08/2013 No Comments 2 Min Read

Wrote a small script that checks if there are any VM’s that require consolidation and asks for user action to consolidate them. You can choose between Yes and No on single VM’s or All to make the action automatic. It’s fairly simple to modify this script to make it automatic, if you so want to. It also catches any issues with consolidation so you don’t need to look at the…

How to verify Dell MEM driver usage and version

Miscellaneous VMware

By Antti Hurme 13/07/2013 No Comments 1 Min Read

During a previous case with Dell support one question was on how to verify currently installed Dell MEM multipath driver version. As this information is not easily available at the iSCSI configuration, had to do some searching. The version can be found in the update manager, but if it’s not installed using VUM, then you can verify it using a ssh session to the ESXi host with the following command….