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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bugs’
NIC Teaming load balancing does not work with global vSwitch configuration on ESX 3.5
January 20th, 2010
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Windows 7 and the Intel 965 video driver
May 12th, 2009
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I like trying out new stuff. That’s one of the reasons I upgraded my testing machine to Windows 7. Unfortunately the driver that is included with Windows 7 for the Intel 965 Mobile is far from perfect. Nasty side effects are: flickering taskbar, black boxes on random places of the screen, minimize / maximize / [...]
Great Hyper-V youtube movie…
May 1st, 2009
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Most people heard about this by now, Technet and MSDN are running on Hyper-V. As Microsoft states, an enterprise ready solution. Both Technet and MSDN crashed this week, or should we say Hyper-V just doesn’t cut it. Check this Youtube movie that clearly shows what happens when VMs are stressed:
A professional associate of mine shared [...]
Virtual Machines appear to be running or registered on multiple ESX Servers
April 17th, 2009
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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 [...]
Security updates for ESX 3.x
April 11th, 2009
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Just a quick note that I wanted to get out… A security patch has been released. Please look at the following KB article and download, test and implement the patch.
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-200904201-SG: Updates VMX RPM
Issues fixed in this patch (and their relevant symptoms, if applicable) include:
A critical vulnerability in the virtual machine display [...]
DIY Patch for VMware Workstation 6.5.1 on Linux 2.6.29 kernel
March 31st, 2009
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I’m running OpenSuse as my primary OS at the moment. One of the problems I had was getting VMware Workstation to work in a normal way. The problem was that the kernel modules weren’t compiled correctly. It’s been bugging me ever since, but due to the fact that it’s the end of the quarter I [...]
vCenter and SQL service dependencies
February 12th, 2009
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During several projects I noticed that for some reason the vCenter service would not start correctly. After a quick browse in “services.msc” and the eventlog I noticed that the vCenter service started before the SQL service. As you can imagine vCenter needs SQL to be up and running before it can actually start. I fixed [...]
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