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Proxmox Multipath Plugin

I know this is like the 5th post in a week about Proxmox. Sorry everyone. I’m almost done I promise. Since I’ve been setting up multipathing on Proxmox on a number of protocols over the last couple of weeks I wanted a quick way to see the status of the paths. You can of courseContinue reading “Proxmox Multipath Plugin”

QuickStart Guides

I’ve been working on some docs related things over the past week. QuickStart guides for a number of things came up. The first was nvme-tcp. Specifically, on Proxmox but a lot of the same things can be used for most other Linux systems. This content is on my GitHub at https://github.com/khensler/Quickstart-Guides. And specifically this file:Continue reading “QuickStart Guides”

Proxmox, iSCSI, and multipathd

I’m sure all the grey (or gray? I don’t know you pick one) beards out there know all about multipathd and it’s quirks and in and outs. Since a lot of people appear to be looking at other hypervisor solutions these days I decided to put my opinion out there too. You of course don’tContinue reading “Proxmox, iSCSI, and multipathd”

Linux NVME-TCP shared targets with LVM

I’ve been working on Proxmox the last few months and ran into an issue when using nvme-tcp volumes. I connected multiple hosts to a number of shared volumes. I’ve done this before using a number of different methods such as iscsi or shared managed disks on Azure. All of these just worked. When connecting toContinue reading “Linux NVME-TCP shared targets with LVM”

GPU over IP in AVS

I was working on my VMware Explore 2024 session about networking and needed a demo. You should come and see me at explore at my session or the Hands On Labs. I went through the “normal” things and got one demo done. My session is about networking so a lot of the demos I canContinue reading “GPU over IP in AVS”

Start a VMware VM to Safe Mode With Networking Automatically

Been having some internal conversation about the CrowdStrike outages. We needed a way to quickly boot VMs that were affected and allow them to get on the network for easy file deletion and reboots. So some of my colleagues and myself got to work on it. First we needed a way to set the bootContinue reading “Start a VMware VM to Safe Mode With Networking Automatically”

resxtop on a modern Linux version?

Does anyone still use resxtop? VMware/Broadcom must not think so. The instructions for installation don’t include all the steps necessary for sure. The instructions are located here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.monitoring.doc/GUID-194D583E-EFDC-44DF-AF3C-625974815766.html This may change as Broadcom updates all the doc pages. But for now it’s correct. The instructions for installation on Ubuntu are: Installing RESXTOP on Linux systemsContinue reading “resxtop on a modern Linux version?”

VMware netdumper and zdumps

There is a lot of information around about generating VMware zdump files. These files are the way ESXi stores information about a Purple Screen of Death (PSOD). Normally an ESXi host attempts to write these files to disk during a crash. It can also send this file over the network to the vmware-netdumper service. ThisContinue reading “VMware netdumper and zdumps”

NSX Manager as an Azure VM

Much like running a vCenter Server in an Azure VM I decided to try NSX Manager. Pretty much had the same experience except that NSX reads it’s configuration from a file: /config/guestinfo. This file is a dump from vmtoolsd –cmd “info-get guestinfo”. The file looks something like: Same type of script to build the disks as with vCenter:Continue reading “NSX Manager as an Azure VM”

Installing vCenter as an Azure VM

Now I know why you’re thinking. “Kenyon, that’s easy just V2V it.” Or “That’s not supported so don’t do it.” For those of you who don’t know me a story is in order first. I was building a screen porch out of my tiny front porch at my old house. Now we are talking somethingContinue reading “Installing vCenter as an Azure VM”