VMware just released a new KB article. The article is on VMware HA and the log files it can possibly generate when restarting of a VM occurs. The article contains an extensive description of the sympoms but the most important one is this one: For any virtual machine that VMware HA is wrongly trying to start, it also generates thousands [...]
VMware just released 9 new patches for ESX 3.5: ESX350-200901401-SG – PATCH – Security – KB 1006651 – Updates VMkernel VMX hostd. But most important fix that this patch containts definitely is: VMware ESX and ESXi 3.5 U3 I/O failure on SAN LUNs, and LUN queue is blocked indefinitely. For a full description of this issue, see http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1008130. ESX350-200901402-SG – [...]
VMware just released a whole bunch of patches for 3.0.x, so if you’re still using 3.0.x than you should take a look here. At least three of them are related to Linux Guests! There are 6 patches for 3.0.2 and 4 for 3.0.3. Have fun,
About a month ago I got an email about problems with upgrading VMware tools on a Linux VM. When upgrading VMware tools all modifications done in /etc/fstab after the VMware tools section would be deleted. I never got the chance to actually test it myself but now a KB article popped up and confirmed the bug. Apparently the engineers are [...]
For those that are still using 3.0.2 and are not looking to upgrade to 3.5 U2 yet, VMware just released 3.0.3! Don’t expect new features to popup. Version 3.0.3 is mainly about compatability and patches: Processors Newly supported processors are: Quad-Core AMD Opteron 8300 series and 2300 series processor families (collectively code-named Barcelona) Dual-core Intel Xeon 5200 series processors (code-named [...]
Enter maintenance mode from the ESX command line: vimsh -n -e /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter Backup every running vm via vcb in just one command: for /f “tokens=2 delims=:” %%i in (’vcbvmname -h <virtualcenterserver> -u <user> -p <password> -s Powerstate:on ^| find “name:”‘) do cscript pre-command.wsf “c:\program files\vmware\vmware consolidated backup framework\” %%i fullvm Enable VMotion from the command line: vimsh -n -e “hostsvc/vmotion/vnic_set [...]
VMware just released 3 critical patches and a general patch for ESX 3.0.x. So if you are still using 3.0.x pick them up and patch your environment!
