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Arishtat
Jan 2, 2011

On our Dell R730s I haven't seen any failures, but one of the hosts experienced errors with the SD card redundancy about a year ago. After testing the card to rule out hardware errors I deleted and re-created the redundancy pair. It's been stable ever since.

It's worth noting that Dell has replaced the bootable SD card option with either a single or dual NVMe drive which is way better from both a reliability and a performance standpoint. I assume that HPE is doing the same on their Proliants.

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Arishtat
Jan 2, 2011

Pile Of Garbage posted:

Maybe the issue is with the permissions on the file. Check with ls -alF, not sure what the correct permissions are meant to be though.

Worst case scenario if the VMX is hosed is you can create a new shell VM and attach the existing VMDK to it. For safety sake I’d actually copy the VMDK to the new VM folder so you have the untouched original as a backup until you get everything working again.

Arishtat
Jan 2, 2011

Shaocaholica posted:

Is there a such thing as a packaged group of VMs? Like if I wanted to archive or distribute a production environment that included workstation VMs but also server VMs and maybe different flavors of each. Can they be bundled and also initiated as a group?

VMware vSphere has a construct called vApp which might fit your needs. https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-E6E9D2A9-D358-4996-9BC7-F8D9D9645290.html

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