Comments on: The Achilles Heel of the VMware Distributed Switch

By: My very weird lab issue – a not fun lab story | Notes from MWhite

My very weird lab issue – a not fun lab story | Notes from MWhite — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:01:55 +0000

[…] happened and how to mitigate in the future if it happens again. First via Michael Webster I found this, which is old but still educational, and from Duncan Epping I found this and this. Again very […]

By: BluRayOfDeath

BluRayOfDeath — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:29:09 +0000

I wish had seen this article earlier, I had the call last night "We have a Black Hawk Down!!". We run with a VPLEX environment so a Active/Active data center. There was some power work being down in one DC so we migrated all the VM's to the other site. All good until the power work went wrong and blacked out the site. Vplex worked fine and was working at the other site as planned, but the vDS had a complete meltdown, which we then find vCenter Heartbeat is connected to vDS. Still investigating but it also looks like the hosts weren't looking at the correct site for the datastore???? and hence we had the perfect storm. Our workaround was to reconnect Heartbeat back to a standard switch in order for it to start which the got vDS working again. So all in all a complete cock up.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:10:45 +0000

Excellent writeup! Bookmarked too.

By: Auto Start Breaks in 5.0 Update 1 – Not Just Free vSphere Hypervisor Version « Long White Virtual Clouds

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:00:39 +0000

[…] So before I tell you why this has happened I’m going to tell you why I used Auto Start in the first place in an HA/DRS Cluster. Simple answer, as you can see from the screenshot above, I have HP P4000 VSA’s configured on local storage on each host. I was knowingly using Auto Start even though it wasn’t supported. This was to get my storage back up and running in the case of a host reboot. In an attempt to avoid the problem I described in my article The Achilles Heel of the VMware Distributed Switch. […]

By: vCenter on DVS: Chicken or the egg syndrome. | virtualbdotme

vCenter on DVS: Chicken or the egg syndrome. | virtualbdotme — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:11:21 +0000

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By: vSphere 5 HA Complete Failure Experience « Long White Virtual Clouds

vSphere 5 HA Complete Failure Experience « Long White Virtual Clouds — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:05:41 +0000

[…] All Paths Down events would occur, and situations such as the one described in my post The Achilles Heel of the VMware Distributed Switch could happen. As the majority of my storage (before the CX500) as well as all of my systems are […]

By: @vcdxnz001

@vcdxnz001 — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:42:28 +0000

In reply to Cwjking. I agree. vSphere 5 has been one of the most solid releases. There are very few issues that have come out, and those that have are either issues that have been around for a long time (such as this one), that have workarounds, or are minor. But this is exactly what we expect from Infrastructure software that is underpinning ever more critical systems.

By: Cwjking

Cwjking — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:53:24 +0000

Very good write up. I am currently working on some designs and standards. I really dislike making one-off configurations but if avoid potential downtime it makes it all worth it. I also have to agree that a "workaround" is not really a solution. Even so, I am pretty impressed that only a few things have come to surface for v5. They really spent a good while making this one of the best versions they have every pushed out. Thanks for taking the time and writing this up. Time to go update docs. 🙂