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 never had the time to [...]

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 it by creating a dependency. [...]

I just received an email from a fellow consultant about a customer which had vCenter tasks time-out every once in a while. At times also ESX hosts got disconnected for no apparent reason at all. He discovered the following article by Richard Blythe aka VMware Wolf: ESX disconnects randomly or when doing VI client tasks from VC, task randomly timeout [...]

Just before 2008 ends VMware released a bunch of patches for the 3.0.X release of VMware ESX. 9 Patches, all are “General” patches: ESX303-200812401-BG: Virtual Machines Stop Responding When Disconnected from Serial Port ESX303-200812402-BG: Fix for vdf -P Command to Delimit the Output Values With Proper Spacing ESX303-200812403-BG: Qlogic iSCSI Driver Allocates Target IDs Greater than 255 ESX303-200812404-BG: Permissions on [...]

This KB article has just been published: Virtual Machines may unexpectedly reboot after a VMotion migration to an ESX 3.5 Update 3 Host OR after a Power On operation on an ESX 3.5 Update 3 Host, when VMware HA feature with Virtual Machine Monitoring is active. There’s a work around for the problem but I will not be posting them [...]

I just noticed that when running a VM on VMware Workstation 6.5 and Ubuntu 8.10(but this problem probably also occurs on other non-Windows OS’es), you can’t use the arrow keys. But also ctrl-alt-ins isn’t working, which is annoying cause you would have to do it with the mouse. And no arrow keys also means that you can’t browse through your [...]

VMware Wolf is generating some awesome blogposts lately: Common system management issues in VMware Infrastructure Common Network issues in VMware Infrastructure Common Licensing issues in VMware Infrastructure All the blog posts contain a downloadable html file with a grid. The grid contains problems followed by possible resolutions. Great blog posts and very useful information, visit VMware Wolfs blog and download [...]