![]() The Openfiler NAS also has a second 1TB USB HDD containing a second NFS Media Store share, mounted by Serviio/Xubuntu VM already mentioned (as well as any other machine in the network). This includes a RAID 0 (not recommended I might add) iSCSI target for maximum IO within a constrained home budget and a 1TB USB HDD containing a NFS Datastore where I store my ISO’s and vm backups so as to save space on the relatively expensive, high performance iSCSI target intended for the VM’s disk files, which are also thinly provisioned to further save on space. The virtual infrastructure in my lab that underpins it is a two node ESXi cluster with a third node running Openfiler to provide the shared storage to ESXi. It’s not the scenario I needed after an intense few days squeezing 5 days worth of work into a 4 day week due to the Easter bank holiday weekend, plus the 3 hour drive home.įirstly, my DLNA server is simply Serviio running on a Xubuntu VM which mounts an NFS share containing my media files. I came home on Friday evening to find my DLNA server wasn’t available :(. When the ESX host restarts, you can reconnect using vSphere Client and the vSwitch will now have the correct name. If you’re happy the name has been changed correctly in esx.conf, hit Esc, :wq! and hit Enter to write the changes back to disk and quit vi.īack at the Linux prompt, type clear to clear the screen, and type exit and hit Enter to log out of the console.Īlt-F2 will close the “Unsupported Console” returning you back to the black and yellow ESX Console.Įsc to log out, then finally F11 to restart the host. Change the word by hitting Esc, cw followed by the correct name, followed by Esc. Search for “name” using Esc, /name, Enter and keep hitting n (next) until you find the incorrectly named vSwitch. If you don’t do vi, go find someone who does or you’re about to break stuff. You be presented with a Linuxesque command prompt. You won’t see the word “unsupported” appear as you type it but upon hitting Enter, you’ll be prompted for the root password. The good news is that you can fix this scenario using the “unsupported” console on the ESX host.Īt the ESX Console, log in and hit Alt-F1 then type unsupported and hit Enter. You soon realise that you can’t rename a vSwitch from within vSphere Client either – oh no! Deleting it and recreating it may be a problem too if there are VM’s living inside an internal Virtual Machines network that cannot be VMotioned away to another host. Going back to pain old vSwitches though, the names need to match if you have VMotion VMKernel ports contained inside them, and if they don’t then it won’t work. In order to create dvSwitches (Distributed vSwitches), you need to point vSphere Client at a VirtualCenter Server, not directly at an ESX host in order to access the enterprise features enabled therein.
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