A while back I blogged about the customization specification wizard failing when entering the password. Today I visited the same customer again. This problem only occurred when running it from the VirtualCenter itself. Today I upgraded the VirtualCenter server to 2.5 Update 1 and the problem is solved… Still don’t know why it happened,

Today a customer called about a problem with the Exchange VM. For some reason the ESX Host where this VM resided was always swapping/ballooning. They checked and double checked the settings but could not find the problem. After a quick scan I noticed that there were limits set on memory for each VM. This particular VM had 1536MB of memory [...]

Clint discovered the following: Source – Ran into a problem while doing some performance testing on some test VMs. We found that we had no historical performance data for the VM or Host. All we had was real time data. This can be a major issue, especially when you are trying to troubleshoot or like in this case get performance [...]

Check out the release notes, there are a lot of fixes in this update! There’s also an update to the Update Manager and the Converter plugin. Download link Releasenotes link

For some weird reason the customization specification wizard in VirtualCenter 2.5 fails when entering the administrator password. The error: An internal error occurred, and the wizard is unable to store the administrator password securely. After reinstalling VirtualCenter the error still occurs. I googled the error and stumbled upon this VMware KB but this did not solve my problem…. I’m lost, [...]

Today I noticed the following error at a customer site when I wanted to install the new patch bundle, ”Metadata for patch missing”. After a close inspection I noticed VirtualCenter was installed with a different http port number. For VMware Update Manager to work you will have to open up the firewall manually:  esxcfg-firewall -o 81,tcp,out,UpdateManager (Change the port number, in red, according to the [...]

There are new iso’s / builds coming up for 3i, 3.5 and VirtualCenter: VMware ESX 3.5 Update 1 Latest Version: 3.5 | 4/10/2008 | Build: 82663 VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 1 Latest Version: 2.5 | 4/10/2008 | Build: 79820 VMware ESXi 3.5 Installable Update 1 Latest Version: 3.5 | 4/10/2008 | Build: 82664 Unfortunately the iso’s aren’t available for download [...]