I was doing my daily round on the VMTN Forums and noticed this topic on VMs flickering between ESX hosts. I’ve personally never witnessed this and didn’t even knew it was a known issue. Luckily Troy Clavell pointed the topic starter out to a KB article related to this exact issue. Apparently it’s being caused by the fact that the [...]
It seems to be a question that often pops up on the VMTN forum, how can I move my ESX hosts to my freshly installed vCenter server? The answer is actually pretty simple: Just to be on the save side, set DRS to manual and disable HA on the “old” vCenter server / cluster Right click the ESX host and [...]
Stephen Foskett already gave us a hint during the VMTN podcast. A brand new low cost SAN solution was about to be unveiled today…. After EMC / Iomega released the Storcenter IX2 and the Storcenter Pro IX4 it just released the rack mountable iSCSI/NFS SAN StorCenter Pro Ix4-200r. The cool thing about the before mentioned SAN solutions is that all [...]
I just noticed this SRM update, it’s just a small patch but looking at the problems it corrects it might be beneficial to upgrade! Site Recovery Manager 1.0 Update 1 Patch 3 Latest Release Version: 1.0.1.2587 | 04/09/09 | 154949 This patch corrects the following problems: a problem that prevents protected virtual machines from following recommended Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) [...]
Master VCP! How cool does that sound? The VCDX, as cool as it is, is specifically targeted at a solution architect level. It is not for everyone. What should be for all of you is a “next” level. This “Master VCP” certification is something that we are working very hard on being able to provide soon. It would involve being [...]
It’s just a minor update this time from Rob de Veij: RVTools 2.5.1 Version 2.5.1 (April 15, 2009) Bug fix! Better exception handling on the vDisk and vNetwork tab pages. With the help from Alan Civita this problem is now solved! Thanks again Alan.
I just replied to a topic on the VMTN forums and thought it might be useful to write it down here as well. (I thought I already did, but a search didn’t turn up anything.) When a VM gets stuck during shutdown or isn’t responding anymore you can easily kill the VM. First option is the command line version of [...]
