[ace] [New Logentry] VMware Patching and Maintenance

[cuffe at jlab.org]

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The last two VMware nodes that we added were both showing hardware memory problems.  The guidance from dell was to reboot so the system could self heal.    Since I was moving VMs around and had to reboot several nodes, I patched all the hypervisors to the latest release level and applied all the available firmware updates.  All nodes are now at patch level ESXi, 7.0.3, 20328353.  vCenter itself is also on the latest available version.  The memory issues seems to have cleared for now.  If it comes back, we will replace the modules.

I also did some cleanup of the datastore areas.  There were several VMs that were "Removed from Inventory" but their files were still in the data store (Delete from Disk). I also found that at some point the Veeam replication for cagwspare went a bit nuts and leve behind around 1200 replicas.  These were not longer being used or accessed and were all from October and November of 2021.  No other replicas seem to have had this issue.  I purged them all.  I will investigate at some point.

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