I had a similar issue where ESXi would stop responding for no apparent reason. Sometimes it would come back from dead in 10-15 minutes sometimes not. Installing 5.1 Update 1 fixed the problem for me.
Every time I access 'Disks -> Smart Info' page on Napp-It, Solaris (11.1) generates below message for every hard drive attached to the system and increases soft error count by one.
As described here http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/ticket/261 this is happening because Napp-It...
I have TLS running on Solaris 11.1
If I remember correctly, I had to downgrade Socket SSL package by running "install S/SU/SULLR/IO-Socket-SSL-1.68.tar.gz" in the CPAN shell
Tehnically you could passthrough internal sata ports, but then you would need to install host OS somewhere else. USB possibly. In ESXi at least once you configure device as passthrough device host does not touch it so it does not see what's connected to it.
You can do that in the ESXi as well as Xen. In VMware world it is called VMDirectPath or DirectPath I/O. The thing to keep in mind that you can passthrough a PCI device not a hard drive so you basically would need to passthrough HBA or RAID card. DirectPath also requires some special hardware...
Posted this in the "master" napp-it thread, but reposting as a separate thread to get more eyeballs.
In the all in one setup is transfer speed between ESX and napp-it NFS share limited by the speed of physical NIC?
My setup is: ESXi VMkernel port and SAN VM virtual NIC (vmxnet3) are...
I have a dedicated vSwitch for ESX to Solaris traffic. The only two things connected to it are VMkernel port and Solaris VM which uses VMXNET3 adapter.
In the all in one setup is transfer speed between ESX and napp-it NFS share limited by the speed of physical NIC?
I have ESX connected to the NFS share on Solaris VM, but the transfer speed is flat ~930 Mbps. Is there any way to work around this?
Thanks Gea that solved the problem.
It is interesting that I already had the entry that you mention in the '/etc/pam.d/other' inserted by the napp-it installer. But I also had unneeded entry in the '/etc/pam.conf'.
BTW thanks a lot for your work on napp-it,
I figured out that this have to do with PAM. If I remove entry that napp-it added:
other password required pam_smb_passwd.so.1 nowarn
from pam.conf password setting starts working again. I am sure that breaks something else though.
I have a fresh Solaris 11.1 and napp-it 0.8l3 nightly Sep.20.2012 install. After installing napp-it I am no longer being able to set/change user passwords. When I try doing it I get this:
root@solaris:~# passwd root
Please try again
Please try again
Permission denied
Above...