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VMware KB: ESXi/ESX hosts with visibility to RDM LUNs being used by MSCS nodes with RDMs may take a long time to boot or during LUN rescan

29 July, 2013

This was a great find – fixed the 45 minute boot time due to the large number of RDMs in use:

VMware KB: ESXi/ESX hosts with visibility to RDM LUNs being used by MSCS nodes with RDMs may take a long time to boot or during LUN rescan.

Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESX/ESXi

7 November, 2012

Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESX/ESXi

Interesting guide on how to troubleshoot VM Power on issues relating to locked files.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=10051