SAS drives kept dropping with SMC 2308 LSI SAS card using VMWARE ESXI 5.5
Update to the latest drivers fixed the problem https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=DT-ESXI55-LSI-MPT2SAS-200000001VMW&productId=353
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Vsan Observer for VMware Virtual SAN – Error getting time
vsan.observer VSAN-CLUSTER –run-webserver –force %admin%@%vCenter% OpenSSL::X509::CertificateError: error getting time then you can just add the –no-https at the near end of the script like vsan.observer VSAN-CLUSTER –run-webserver –force –no-https %admin%@%vCenter% Then load http://vCenterServer_hostname_or_IP_Address:8010
Enabling SSD option on SSD based disks that were not detected as SSD using LSI raid controller
Enabling SSD option on SSD based disks that were not detected as SSD using LSI raid controller http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2013188
Add portgroup and vlan via CLI
Add a portgroup to a vSwitch –> esxcli network vswitch standard portgroup add –portgroup-name= –vswitch-name= esxcfg-vswitch -p “” -v esxcfg-vswitch -p “VLAN XX” -v 900 vSwitch1