ESXi 4.1 Slow Boot – SCSI Timeout Setting

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Chad — No Comments ↓

Symptom ESX 4.1 is incredibly slow to reboot. Problem ESXi is trying to load all of the ISCSI paths during bootup and might not be able to do so right away. Resolution To fix this, change the Scsi.UWConflictRetries from 5000 to Continue reading ESXi 4.1 Slow Boot – SCSI Timeout Setting→

Repurposing a 1u Server as an OpenFiler ISCSI NFS

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Chad — No Comments ↓

What do you do when you have a couple of large hard drives, a bunch of old servers and a need for another network file share (NFS)? You put everything in a pot and make some stew! System Specs: 2.8GHz Continue reading Repurposing a 1u Server as an OpenFiler ISCSI NFS→