As many of you already know there is an issue with the encryption mechanism of ESX(i) 4.1. When passwords are used which are longer than 8 characters the password will be truncated after the 8th character. As such during authentication only the first 8 characters are used. In other words if you have a 10 character password you will only need to [...]
When I was installing vSphere 4.1 ESXi I ran into a problem. I received the following error when I added the ESXi host to my cluster: Call “Datacenter.QueryConnectionInfo” for object “yellow bricks” on vCenter Server “W2K8-001″ failed. Although the error didn’t make much sense I had the feeling it had something to do with name resolution(This KB article gave a [...]
A week ago a colleague contacted me about the fact that he had issues with load balancing on “Virtual Port ID”. Only a single NIC was utilized while running over 10 VMs on a single host. When changing the order of the NICs the traffic would flip over but again no load balancing. I remembered a KB article from months [...]
I wrote this article after the KB was release but forgot to click “publish”. Those planning to upgrade their vSphere environment to Update 1 please read the following: KB Article 1016070 Issue Upgrading ESX 4.0 to 4.0 U1 fails or times out and rebooting the host results in a purple diagnostic screen Who is affected Customers using VMware vSphere 4 [...]
Don’t think many people have noticed this KB article yet or even experienced this issue with HA but nevertheless it’s worth mentioning. Apparently there’s an issue with HA in vCenter 4.0 when a class A network is being used. When a node fails this will not be detected and thus the fail-over of VMs will not occur. Although not many [...]
Just noticed three SRAs were updated. Might be worth checking out: EMC Symmetrix Storage Replication Adapter Version 2.0.0.21 | Released 04/20/2009 Fixed : SRDF Adapter for VMWARE Site Recovery Manager (SRM) times out while trying to enumerate LUNs from a local Symmetrix array. LSI Storage Replication Adapter Version 1.00.30.12| Released 04/01/2009 Hitachi Storage Replication Adapter 2 Version 1.0.8| Released 03/24/2009 [...]
