Category: Server

HP Servers loses connection to SD Card

I have some customer running ESXi installed on SD Card on HP Proliant servers Gen8 and Gen9, that has have problems where the ESXi could not write to the SD Card. Some of them got this message i the vSphere Client. Other has tried to update/upgrade hosts, and after reboot, it was still the same build. All of them…

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By Allan Kjaer September 18, 2015 1

HP Smart Array p440ar and vSphere 6.0 patches

I had a customer/colleague that was upgrading there HP DL380p Gen9 server with local datastores on a HP Smart Array p440ar, with the new patches from VMware, they was doing this manually, from command line. After a reboot the local storage was not accessible, and the Controller was not visible any more. The problem is that the new patches…

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By Allan Kjaer June 22, 2015 0

VMware ESXi 5.x and HP AMS module problem

There is a problem with the HP AMS module on ESXi 5.x, if your installation is affected by this problem, the only solultion might be to shutdown all running Virtual Machines, and reboot the host. If you want to check if your installation i affect you can se the version of the AMS module here, look under…

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By Allan Kjaer December 19, 2014 0

ESXi and Domain Controller HP BladeCenter time with NTP and time drift

I had a customer that just virtualized there last domain controller, this was the PDC, and this was configurered to use NTP: dk.pool.ntp.org, the same was the case for the ESXi hosts. But for some reason the time was drifting about 3-6 minutes every day. After some investigation where we could see that syncing the domain  controller manuelly…

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By Allan Kjaer September 18, 2014 0