[ale] Getting rid of VMware

[DJ-Pfulio]

How much storage is involved?  If it is less than 500G, replace it 
with an SSD. ;)  For small storage amounts, I wouldn't worry about
moving hardware that will be retired shortly.

I'd say that bare metal in 2021 is a mistake about 99.99% of the 
time.

On 3/11/21 5:37 PM, Tod Fassl via Ale wrote:
> Soonish, I am going  to have to take an ISCSI array that is currently
> talking to a VMWare virtual machine running Linux and connect it to a
> real Linux machine. The problem is that I don't know how the Linux
> virtual machine talks to the array. It appears as /dev/sdb on the
> Linux virtual machine and is mounted via /etc/fstab like its just a
> regular HD on the machine.
> 
> 
> So I figure some explanation of how we got here is in order. My
> previous boss bought VMWare thinking we could take 4 24-core machines
> and make one big 96-core virtual machine out of them. He has since
> retired. Since I was rather skeptical of VMWare from the start, the
> job of dealing with the cluster was given to a co-worker. He has
> since moved on. I know just enough about VMWare ESXI to keep the
> thing working. My new boss wants to get rid of VMWare and re-install
> everything on the bare metal machines.
> 
> 
> The VMWare host has 4 ethernet cables running to the switch. But
> there is only 1 virtual network port on the Linux virtual machine.
> However, lspci shows 32 "lines with VMware PCI Express Root"
> (whatever that is):
> 
> 
> # lspci 00:07.7 System peripheral: VMware Virtual Machine
> Communication Interface (rev 10) 00:10.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI
> Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI
> (rev 01) 00:11.0 PCI bridge: VMware PCI bridge (rev 02) 00:15.0 PCI
> bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01) [...] 00:18.7 PCI
> bridge: VMware PCI Express Root Port (rev 01) 02:00.0 Ethernet
> controller: Intel Corporation 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller
> (Copper) (rev 01)
> 
> 
> The open-iscsi package is not installed on the Linux virtual machine.
> However, the ISCSI array shows up as /dev/sdb:
> 
> # lsscsi [2:0:0:0]    disk    VMware   Virtual disk     1.0
> /dev/sda [2:0:1:0]    disk    EQLOGIC  100E-00          8.1
> /dev/sdb
> 
> 
> I'd kinda like to get the ISCSI array connected to a new bare metal
> Linux server w/o losing everybody's files. Do you think I can just
> follow the various hotos out there on connecting an ISCSI array w/o
> too much trouble?
>  
> 
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