Posted on Thu 23 November 2017 in Blog • Tagged with virtualization, Esxi, Blog
Almost over now.
I've managed to upgrade MKV32 to point I may hopefully be able to leave it alone again for a long time. Considering the time between the first and second upgrade was several years and the fourth, fifth and sixth upgrades happened within two years, I'd like to …
Posted on Mon 20 November 2017 in Blog • Tagged with virtualization, Esxi, Blog
Its 00:34. MKS. This is the test answer. Screw messing about with MKVI and migrations and test .vmdk's. MKS has a 2TB RDM. The data on the disk is already in the cloud, no risk of data loss. I can move the RDM file from DS01 to DS00 move …
Posted on Sun 19 November 2017 in Blog • Tagged with virtualization, Esxi, Blog
"I now have to re-address my backups and sort out the performance issues which could lead to more data loss! I need at least another week…."
I've experimented with a spare SDD. I can get a working passthrough desktop on it. Great, I can reduce the load on DS01. The …
Posted on Sat 18 November 2017 in Blog • Tagged with virtualization, Esxi, Blog
Well that's all over now, sort of.
I have a week off work, it's traditional to spend that time working on home PC projects.
Last holiday I added a 4TB drive and accidentally got GPU passthrough working. Result. Since doing so, I've noticed a few performance issues and have come …
Posted on Wed 15 November 2017 in Blog • Tagged with virtualization, Esxi, Blog
I have a week off work. Time to, as tradition now dictates, fuck computer things at home up time! Wheyyy!
This snip was written somewhere between the beginning and the beginning of the disasters:
One of the 3TB's is failing It's been presenting issues in DriveScanner for months I have …
Posted on Sun 23 July 2017 in Blog • Tagged with virtualization, Esxi, Blog
21:07:17 12:27 That's when it finally happened. For the best part of 10 years I've been trying to get graphics passthrough working on my hypervisor, thus enabling the one box theory.
I'd taken two days off work, a long weekend. Planned to swap a 4TB drive out …
Posted on Sun 08 January 2017 in Virtualization • Tagged with virtualization, Esxi, Guides
What is an RDM?
A Raw Device Mapping, can be thought of as a proxy for a physical disk. With ESXI, an RDM is a .vmdk file on a vmfs volume, that points to the physical disk.
Often you'll use RDM's where performance is needed. The VM, database or whatever …