Comments on: VMware vCenter 2.5 Update 4 released today!

By: Drizzt

Drizzt — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:44:36 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up on VCenter 2.5u4!

I got it installed and followed the procedure to install the Performance Overview plugin. It works on my VCenter server, but I can’t install the plugin on management workstations. When I click on “Download and Install” I get this error message : “Invalid URI: URI is empty”.

Any idea on how to fix that?

(My VCenter server has 3 ip adresses, might be caused by that)

By: bfitzhugh

bfitzhugh — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:42:33 +0000

I posted a note about it on my blog:

http://www.lastoctet.com/index.php/2009/02/24/virtualcenter-2-5-update-4-performance-o

Nothing ground breaking, just a neat add on.

By: yoman

yoman — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:52:59 +0000

the performance overview does not seem to give any more info than the performance tab already integrated does, what is the main difference?

By: ryancarnell

ryancarnell — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:25:45 +0000

The install/setup was pretty straight forward. It’s all in the documentation. Yeah, it may not be covered by the installer automatically, but I was able to upgrade just fine and didn’t lose any data.

If you are an admin/engineer in charge of the Virtual Environment and you are having issues following the upgrade documentation, you might have bigger issues than not seeing the “Performance Overview” tab.

By: NiTRo

NiTRo — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:06:26 +0000

i agree with mickkael, it’s NOT user friendly…

Tom, a snapshot can do the trick, if your VC is a VM of course

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:27:45 +0000

PF Overview Charts picture looks nice…

Anyone want to recommend whether to upgrade or re-install from scratch??

By: mickkael

mickkael — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:00:46 +0000

Performance Overview Charts

http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?id=594447vmware_performance_overview.jpg

Installation is not user friendly…

By: Hugo

Hugo — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:01:59 +0000

Ah, there are some fixes:
I have seen this one before: fault.MemorySizeNotRecommended.Summary
And this: Storage Information Displayed for ESX Server that Access Shared LUNs Is Now Accurate
And this is nice too: Storage VMotion Creates Temporary delta.vmdk Files Only for the Virtual Disks That Are Migrated
Wow, the list of known issues is still pretty long…

By: Hugo

Hugo — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:57:36 +0000

What, no bug fixes? That can’t be true, must be your headache that made you forget to mention. I’m waiting for some bugs to be fixed by this update.
/me is off to check the release notes