DS4300 Controller Issues - CONTROLLER HEALTH CHECK FAILURE

This past weekend we started encountering some odd messages in the AIX error report.  When inspecting the Storage Manager client we also saw that all paths had moved over to the second controller.

BC669AA7   1212153609 P H dac1           CONTROLLER HEALTH CHECK FAILURE
BC669AA7   1212152409 P H dac1           CONTROLLER HEALTH CHECK FAILURE
483C9D10     1212151109 I H dac0            ARRAY ACTIVE CONTROLLER SWITCH
D5385D18     1212151109 T H hdisk3       ARRAY OPERATION ERROR
C86ACB7E    1212151109 I H hdisk3        ARRAY CONFIGURATION CHANGED
483C9D10      1212151109 I H dac0            ARRAY ACTIVE CONTROLLER SWITCH
D5385D18     1212151109 T H hdisk5        ARRAY OPERATION ERROR
C86ACB7E    1212151109 I H hdisk5         ARRAY CONFIGURATION CHANGED
BC669AA7    1212150309 P H dac1           CONTROLLER HEALTH CHECK FAILURE

After inspecting the controller errors via the Storage Manager client, I Google'd them and saw references to the controller being faulty.  And when looking at the details of the AIX errors, they also seemed to point to the controller as the issue.  All HBA's were also online and available so it wasn't a connection issue in those terms.

After a call to IBM support and some onsite troubleshooting with the CE, we reseated the controller.  This also had the benefit of power cycling it.  Once the controller was reseated and brought online, it functioned just fine and even moved the paths back over automatically.

What’s the Login User Name and Password for VMWare Server 2.0?

from:  www.tipandtrick.net
VMWare Server 2.0 (currently in Beta 2 release) has departed significantly from legacy VMWare Server 1.0. It’s still a free virtualization software to users to create, manage and run virtual machines, but instead of usual standalone desktop (or notebook laptop) based application, VMWare Server 2.0 now runs solely on web-based management user interface, plus many other new features, enhancements and improvements.

To log in to VMWare Server 2.0, users will have to access https://localhost:8333/ui/ or http://localhost:8222/ui/ for non-secure connection (the URL may takes the form of your computer name) with a web browser to come to VMware Infrastructure (VI) Web Access management interface, which is VMWare Server Console, normally simply call Web-UI. Don’t worry about your system doesn’t have a web server such as Apache or Microsoft IIS running, VMWare Server 2.0 install Tomcat web server in the background.


But users will come to a VI Credentials page asking for Login Name and Password, as shown in the screenshot below



What login user name and password to use? This probably your first installation of VMWare Server 2.0, and even if you have installed VMWare Server 1.0 before, it never ask for creation of any user account or its user ID or password during installation of whatever versions. And searching up and down in Start Menu’s VMWare Server program folder doesn’t reveal any program to create or manage user’s login name for VMWare console too.

Actually, VMWare Infrastructure Web Access, and hence VMWare Server 2.0, uses user account of the operating system, i.e Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Linux distro. So to login to VMWare Server 2.0 Web Console, logon with an administrative account’s user name of Windows or Linux (Administrator or root) and the corresponding password. Note the password is a must. In Windows, most built-in Administrator account does not have password by default even after been enabled, and so a password must be assigned.

It’s possible to create and add another user account with administrator’s privileges specially for VMWare Server login purpose.