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<p class="MsoNormal">I am trying to get my windows hosts to deploy with SCSI devices instead of IDE<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have modified the disk type to be SD instead of HD – and it starts up with SCSI now , however I don’t think its building the VMX file correctly as I get this error<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">Tue Aug 20 09:44:08 2013 [VMM][I]: out:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">Tue Aug 20 09:44:08 2013 [VMM][I]: error: Failed to start domain one-24<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">Tue Aug 20 09:44:08 2013 [VMM][I]: error: internal error Could not start domain: GenericVmConfigFault -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">Tue Aug 20 09:44:08 2013 [VMM][I]: Failed to configure scsi0.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">Tue Aug 20 09:44:08 2013 [VMM][I]:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">Tue Aug 20 09:44:08 2013 [VMM][I]:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">Tue Aug 20 09:44:08 2013 [VMM][I]: ExitCode: 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">Tue Aug 20 09:44:08 2013 [VMM][I]: Failed to execute virtualization driver operation: deploy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">Tue Aug 20 09:44:08 2013 [VMM][E]: Error deploying virtual machine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">Tue Aug 20 09:44:08 2013 [DiM][I]: New VM state is FAILED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have tried setting the RAW settings for SCSI env. In the VMX file, but it puts the disk name before it finds if the SCSI device is present.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">scsi0:0.fileName = "/vmfs/volumes/51ff8fa7-5a076f91-1cb4-b499bac14752/24/disk.0/disk.vmdk"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">scsi0.present = "true"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">scsi0.sharedBus = "none"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">scsi0.virtualDev = "lsisas1068"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">scsi0:0.present = "true "<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">scsi0:0.deviceType = "scsi-hardDisk"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">sched.scsi0:0.shares = "normal"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">sched.scsi0:0.throughputCap = "off"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">scsi0.pciSlotNumber = "21"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">scsi0.sasWWID = "50 05 05 60 ed 9f 4c 80"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Are there any recommended best practices for this type of setup? Here is what my template looks like<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">TEMPLATE 0 INFORMATION<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">ID : 0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">NAME : Windows 2k8r2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">USER : oneadmin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">GROUP : oneadmin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">REGISTER TIME : 08/08 12:16:50<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">PERMISSIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">OWNER : um-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">GROUP : ---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">OTHER : ---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">TEMPLATE CONTENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">CONTEXT=[<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> NETWORK="YES" ]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">CPU="1"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">DISK=[<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> IMAGE_ID="0" ]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">FEATURES=[<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> PCIBRIDGE="0" ]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">MEMORY="2048"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">NIC=[<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> MODEL="e1000",<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> NETWORK_ID="0" ]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">OS=[<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> GUESTOS="windows7Server64Guest" ]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">RAW=[<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> DATA="<devices><controller type='scsi' index='0' model='lsilogic'/></devices>",<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> TYPE="vmware" ]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">RAW=[<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> DATA_VMX="scsi0.present = \"true\"\nscsi0.sharedBus = \"none\"\nscsi0.virtualDev = \"lsisas1068\"\nscsi0:0.present = \"true \"\nscsi0:0.deviceType
= \"scsi-hardDisk\"\nsched.scsi0:0.shares = \"normal\"\nsched.scsi0:0.throughputCap = \"off\"\nscsi0.pciSlotNumber = \"160\"",<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console""> TYPE="vmware" ]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">REQUIREMENTS="ID=\"0\" | ID=\"1\""<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Michael Curran | connectsolutions | Lead Network Architect<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Phone 614.568.2285 | Mobile 614.403.6320 | <a href="http://www.connectsolutions.com">
<span style="color:#0563C1">www.connectsolutions.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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