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Archive for May 7th, 2019

Visual Studio direct download links

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/07

For my link archive:

–jeroen

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More Delphi debug visualizers

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/07

I hope that by now they are available for more Delphi versions:

Some other posts around the Debug Visualiser topic:

–jeroen

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ESXi: console commands to digging through your hba/disk/datastore configuration

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/07

Two posts with interesting commands to help digging through your hba/disk/datastore configurations from the console:

One day I will write a script that – per datastore – lists all the devices related to it including their HBA and LUN.

For that, I will likely need these references:

For now this works:

  • Get the list of data stores (note the Device Name column has the NAA_ID you need below):
    esxcli storage vmfs extent list
  • Get the path information to find HBA, Channel, Target and LUN:
    esxcli storage core path list --device NAA_ID
  • Get the list of HBAs:
    esxcli storage core adapter list
  • Get device details (including Model and Revision):
    esxcli storage core device list --device NAA_ID

The example below (with most important output bolded) shows a drive connected to a SAS3008 based controller which storcli cannot access (nor MegaCli), but MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) can.

MSM allowed me to find the serial number of the drive by the Target Transport Details value 4433221106000000 as being on Slot number 6 (which seems to indicate Target numbers are 1-based whereas LUN is 0-based).

# esxcli storage vmfs extent list
Volume Name                     VMFS UUID                            Extent Number  Device Name                                                                 Partition
------------------------------  -----------------------------------  -------------  --------------------------------------------------------------------------  ---------
...
ST6000VX0001-1SH                59a33f7b-66df7c00-11b0-0cc47aaa9742              0  naa.5000c50087762d1b                                                                1
# esxcli storage core path list -d naa.5000c50087762d1b 
sas.500304801ce1d700-sas.4433221106000000-naa.5000c50087762d1b
   UID: sas.500304801ce1d700-sas.4433221106000000-naa.5000c50087762d1b
   Runtime Name: vmhba0:C0:T7:L0
   Device: naa.5000c50087762d1b
   Device Display Name: Local ATA Disk (naa.5000c50087762d1b)
   Adapter: vmhba0
   Channel: 0
   Target: 7
   LUN: 0
   Plugin: NMP
   State: active
   Transport: sas
   Adapter Identifier: sas.500304801ce1d700
   Target Identifier: sas.4433221106000000
   Adapter Transport Details: 500304801ce1d700
   Target Transport Details: 4433221106000000
   Maximum IO Size: 4194304
# esxcli storage core adapter list
HBA Name  Driver        Link State  UID                   Capabilities  Description                                                           
--------  ------------  ----------  --------------------  ------------  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
vmhba0    lsi_msgpt3    link-n/a    sas.500304801ce1d700                (0000:01:00.0) Avago (LSI Logic) Fusion-MPT 12GSAS SAS3008 PCI-Express
...
vmhba32   vmkusb        link-n/a    usb.vmhba32                         () USB  
# esxcli storage core device list --device naa.5000c50087762d1b 
naa.5000c50087762d1b
   Display Name: Local ATA Disk (naa.5000c50087762d1b)
   Has Settable Display Name: true
   Size: 5723166
   Device Type: Direct-Access 
   Multipath Plugin: NMP
   Devfs Path: /vmfs/devices/disks/naa.5000c50087762d1b
   Vendor: ATA     
   Model: ST6000VX0001-1SH
   Revision: VN02
   SCSI Level: 6
   Is Pseudo: false
   Status: on
   Is RDM Capable: true
   Is Local: true
   Is Removable: false
   Is SSD: false
   Is VVOL PE: false
   Is Offline: false
   Is Perennially Reserved: false
   Queue Full Sample Size: 0
   Queue Full Threshold: 0
   Thin Provisioning Status: unknown
   Attached Filters: 
   VAAI Status: unsupported
   Other UIDs: vml.02000000005000c50087762d1b535436303030
   Is Shared Clusterwide: false
   Is Local SAS Device: true
   Is SAS: true
   Is USB: false
   Is Boot USB Device: false
   Is Boot Device: false
   Device Max Queue Depth: 32
   No of outstanding IOs with competing worlds: 32
   Drive Type: physical
   RAID Level: NA
   Number of Physical Drives: 1
   Protection Enabled: false
   PI Activated: false
   PI Type: 0
   PI Protection Mask: NO PROTECTION
   Supported Guard Types: NO GUARD SUPPORT
   DIX Enabled: false
   DIX Guard Type: NO GUARD SUPPORT
   Emulated DIX/DIF Enabled: false

–jeroen

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