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Following Broadcom’s buyout of VMWare, many home users of virtualization software such as VMWare’s ESXi were disappointed that the free personal use was discontinued.
News today however is more promising: from today you can download Fusion Pro for MacOS and Workstation Pro for Windows free for personal use. You need to sign up for an account at support.broadcom.com and then search for either product to download. More details here.
This should be filed under “Can you? Yes. Should you? Probably not”
I tried creating a Docker container running Oracle 19c from Oracle official dockerfiles, and straight out of the gate ran out of diskspace:
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checkSpace.sh: ERROR - There is not enough space available in the docker container.
checkSpace.sh: The container needs at least 18 GB, but only 14 GB are available.
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Removing intermediate container b53a5e13a45c
The command '/bin/sh -c chmod ug+x $INSTALL_DIR/*.sh && sync && $INSTALL_DIR/$CHECK_SPACE_FILE && $INSTALL_DIR/$SETUP_LINUX_FILE && rm -rf $INSTALL_DIR' returned a non-zero code: 1
ERROR: Oracle Database Docker Image was NOT successfully created.
ERROR: Check the output and correct any reported problems with the docker build operation.
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 798M 1.3M 797M 1% /run
/dev/sda2 30G 12G 17G 41% /
The container needs at least 18GB? Of course it does.
Time to expand my VM disk space (using notes from when I previously had to do this here), and try again.
This is part 3 of 3 in a series on adding new drives and storage to my HP DL380 G7 server and ESXi. The previous 2 parts are here, part 1 – adding new drives, and part 2 – configuring a new RAID array.
After the previous two steps were complete, the new disks are in, the new RAID array configured, the next step is to add the storage in ESXi to be available to new VMs. Here’s my starting point, almost out of space:
Right now I have 1 Datastore configured in ESXi:
To add a new Datastore in ESXi:
At this point I ran into the error ‘Failed to create VMFS datastore’:
This post with steps to fix the partition table on the newly added drives. First step was to enable the sshd service to ssh into the server:
First, use this command to find the disk id of the newly added disk. Here I can see my new disk array as it’s the one closest to 1TB, the size of the new disks:
ls -lha /vmfs/devices/disks/
This command shows the issue with the partition table on the new disk array:
partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/(disk ID)
Next, use this command to reset the partition table to msdos type for the new disk array:
partedUtil setptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/(disk ID) msdos
Repeating the previous steps to add the new datastore now works, new store added:
New storage space now looks good!
Checking in iLO on the newly added disks, looks good:
Also, taking a look at fan speeds after 30mins or so, fan speeds all look good!
Done!
A while back I added my first disks to my $150 eBay HP DL380 G7 server – if you’re looking for steps on how to get to the RAID settings on the DL380 server, see my previous post here.
I recently started to run out of space on the 2 drives I’d installed previously, so time to add some more storage. I added a couple of cheap refurbished WD Blue drives described here, and I have a step by step post on physically installing the drives here.
Now the drives are installed, I need to add them to the RAID controller. After the POST tests, hit F8 to get to the iLO setup, and then exit, per the steps described in my earlier post here.
Press F8 when prompted to get to the RAID setup:
Select ‘Create a Logical Drive’ – here I’m adding a new RAID array with my 2 newly inserted drives:
I selected the 2 newly installed 1TB drives, in a RAID 1+0 config:
F8 to save:
Saved:
… and now I have 2 RAID arrays, the first one I added at a 750GB RAID 1+0 array, and now the new 1TB RAID 1+0 array:
In the next post I’ll show adding a new store in ESXi to use the new space on this new RAID array.