Hello there,
I have successfully managed to build my homelab to get more used to ESXi and vCenter server. I am running single ESXi on Dell hardware. On this ESXi host I have vCenter server along with DC as VM. I am booting off ESXi using 2GB USB flash drive. However, I have stumbled upon this problem and have few other questions to get my head around.
So here I go..
1) Somehow I am getting "Lost connectivity to the device mpx.vmhba32.C0:T0:L0 backing the boot file system /vmfs/devices/disks/mpx.vmhba32.C0:T0:L0. As a result host configuration changes will not be saved to persistent storage". Now this message is fairly straightforward which indicates possible issue with my USB drive from where I have booted this ESXi host. However, when I run esxcfg-scsidevs -l command at SSH, it does show up this device there as below. Also performing rescan of storage devices and datastores hasn't fixed this issue either. So how can I get this resolved?
2) In regards to database, I had opted for SQL Express to be installed on same VM as vCenter server when installing vCenter server. I can see SQL Server service as running in services console. However, when I go to Start menu of this same server I don't see any SQL Management Studio. How would I go about and check DB instance and other stuff like rollup jobs ? All I see in there is SQL Server Configuration Manager and Import & Export data (64-bit). Do I need to install anything separately?
Any guidance would help...thanks..