As some of you know I spend a lot of time on the VMTN forums, helping people out and learning from other experts. Today someone posted about Storage VMotion not working after a Service Console IP change. It reminded me of a problem I faced a while ago. The solution wasn’t obvious but fairly easy, because the problem was solved [...]

So it’s back to business again after a couple of crazy days during VMworld. All the blogs can return to their normal “technical” writing. VMware just released a whole bunch of patches for ESX(i) 3.5, so for you SysAdmins it’s also back to work again. You can find them here. There’s also a new release for VMware’s Lab Manager available, [...]

A couple of days ago an ex-colleague phoned me about a weird problem with enabling HA in a ESXi cluster. The following errors occurred: Configuration of host IP address is inconsistent on host : address resolved to Host misconfigured. IP address of not found on local interfaces cmd addnode failed for primary node: Internal AAM Error – agent could not [...]

I’ve never been a huge fan of agents in the Service Console. Too many times I’ve seen hosts fail because of an agent that had a memory leak etc. Now it seems that running the HP IM agents causes your ESX 3.5 U2 to become unavailable after a certain amount of time. The errors that appear: 0 Z root 8536 [...]

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 [...]

As everyone probably already knows by now there’s a problem with 3.5 U2.  VMware is working on a patch as we speak. There has been a KB article released, but it seems like everyone is clicking on the same link at the same moment cause it’s hard to get a decent respond. The error message that appears: This product has [...]

I’ve seen this one on the VMTN forum a couple of times. When the Health Status isn’t showing you could do the following to fix it: Restart VirtualCenter service on the VC Server Restart mgmt-vmware service on the hosts that are affected (service mgmt-vmware restart) Restart vmware-vpxa on the hosts that are affected (service vmware-vpxa restart) If the above did [...]