First Tintri T880 in Finland?

Well, I'm not 100% sure if it's first, but for sure there are not many Tintri boxes in Finland.

And what Tintri is? It's Application aware storage, that is extremely simple to set-up.

I'm not writing post on how to set-up it or what it does, since it's so simple, and there are already many good posts about it. But, I'm planning to write up some real-life experiences when we get real production load to our new storage.

But here are some sneak peeks:

First #tintri #t880 in Finland? With #t650

A photo posted by scattereditnotes (@scattereditnotes) on Jun 2, 2015 at 9:50pm PDT

See difference between #tintri #t880 and #t650 ?

A photo posted by scattereditnotes (@scattereditnotes) on Jun 2, 2015 at 9:52pm PDT

#tintri #t880

A photo posted by scattereditnotes (@scattereditnotes) on Jun 2, 2015 at 9:54pm PDT

#tintri #t880 #controllers

A photo posted by scattereditnotes (@scattereditnotes) on Jun 2, 2015 at 9:55pm PDT

As you can see, we also have older T650 that was used in our POC.

Error joining ESX 5.5 host to Active Directory

After joining ESX 5.5 host to Active Directory, I was not able to login with my AD account to host.

Also, lsassd ( Likewise Identity and Authentication Service) service was not running:
~ # /etc/init.d/lwiod status
running
~ # /etc/init.d/lsassd status
stopped
~ # /etc/init.d/netlogond status
running

And when you try to start it manually:

~ # /etc/init.d/lsassd start

Starting Likewise Identity and Authentication Service...failed

Reason for this, there is a directory missing in host! (And yes, it's a bug in ESX..)

So, login to host with root account, and create directory /var/lock/subsys

~ # cd /var/lock

/var/lock # mkdir subsys

But,  Likewise Identity and Authentication Service is still not starting. So, you need to restart lwiod (Likewise Identity and Authentication Service) and netlogond (Likewise Site Affinity Service) and after that start lsassd.

/var/lock # /etc/init.d/lsassd start

Starting Likewise Identity and Authentication Service...failed

/var/lock # /etc/init.d/lwiod restart

Stopping Likewise IO Manager Service...ok

Starting Likewise IO Manager Service...ok

/var/lock # /etc/init.d/netlogond restart

Stopping Likewise Site Affinity Service...ok

Starting Likewise Site Affinity Service...ok

/var/lock # /etc/init.d/lsassd start

Starting Likewise Identity and Authentication Service...ok

And, now I was able to log in with my AD account to that host!

These links helped me resolving this issue:

VMware KB:http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2075398

VirtualMe blog: http://blog.jgriffiths.org/?p=677