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 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 / close buttons hidden, taskbar disappearing… [...]
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 screen captures of a [...]
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 [...]
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 function might [...]
