Updated 2018-09-20: Not creating partitions on the /dev/sdb disk. Original Post Published: 20 November 2014. —————————————————————————————– It was quite a while ago i had to create a Linux based NFS share for a 2 x vCloud Director (vCD) cell setup. For some reason Windows based NFS shares have been used during my latest vCD implementations. Below …
Tag Archive: NFS
Successfully delete a Nutanix Container
I received two questions on the same topic last week so i figure i’ll put together a blog post. The subject was “Cannot delete a Nutanix Container for my vSphere environment” !! A Nutanix Container is the logical unit, created from the Nutanix Storage Pool, where you store your virtual machines (VMs) and or files. A …
vSphere ESXi 5.5U1 and NFS All Path Down patch
As you might know there has been a known issue with vSphere ESXi 5.5U1 where the ESXi host intermittently can lose NFS connectivity and an All Paths Down (APD) is observed. This issue could result in: Blue screen in Windows based virtual machines Read only file systems for Linux based virtual machines. The patch also fixes the …
vCloud Director Management cluster disaster recovery
A while ago i needed to perform a vCloud Director (vCD) management cluster disaster recovery. There are four main sections in the blog post: Infrastructure – describes the infrastructure used by the vCloud Director Management cluster environment. Rollback reasons – describes why the HP LeftHand P4300 storage volume rollback was carried out. Rollback preparation – describes …