Comments on: What I learned yesterday: DvSData Folder,View all IPs, Sysprep & Guest Customization http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/2009/07/24/what-i-learned-yesterday-dvsdata-folderview-all-ips-sysprep-guest-customization/ Beyond the Manual, with Mike Laverick (VCI, VCP, CCI, CCEA, MCT, MCSE) Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:25:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Mike Laverick http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/2009/07/24/what-i-learned-yesterday-dvsdata-folderview-all-ips-sysprep-guest-customization/comment-page-1/#comment-42103 Mike Laverick Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:49:38 +0000 http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=1382#comment-42103 That's good question - one would assume if the DvSwith changes - that change is first sent to the VCDB, then to the DvSFolder, followed by local sync to the local DB. But to be quite honest I don't know if that is the correct order. There's nothing in product documentation as far as I am aware that would tell you that - product documentation doesn't even mention the DvSwith Folder... Let me ask some folks at VMW and see what they say... That’s good question – one would assume if the DvSwith changes – that change is first sent to the VCDB, then to the DvSFolder, followed by local sync to the local DB. But to be quite honest I don’t know if that is the correct order. There’s nothing in product documentation as far as I am aware that would tell you that – product documentation doesn’t even mention the DvSwith Folder… Let me ask some folks at VMW and see what they say…

]]> By: VirtualProUK http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/2009/07/24/what-i-learned-yesterday-dvsdata-folderview-all-ips-sysprep-guest-customization/comment-page-1/#comment-42049 VirtualProUK Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:20:20 +0000 http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=1382#comment-42049 Hi Mike Just following up on this .dvsData and local db chat we had on twitter with a little article. Reading through your notes here I read that vCenter decides where to store the .dvsData folder but that this generally tends to be shared VMFS storage. Can I presume this is what vCenter accesses? If it's shared storage I'm thinking that as long as all hosts can see it they can work off the .dvsData folder. I'm thinking that the local db only comes into play if both the vCenter server is down and the ESX host cannot connect to the shared storage location that houses the .dvsData folder. Be interested to hear your thoughts on this one Regards Craig Stewart Hi Mike

Just following up on this .dvsData and local db chat we had on twitter with a little article.

Reading through your notes here I read that vCenter decides where to store the .dvsData folder but that this generally tends to be shared VMFS storage. Can I presume this is what vCenter accesses?

If it’s shared storage I’m thinking that as long as all hosts can see it they can work off the .dvsData folder. I’m thinking that the local db only comes into play if both the vCenter server is down and the ESX host cannot connect to the shared storage location that houses the .dvsData folder.

Be interested to hear your thoughts on this one

Regards

Craig Stewart

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