One of my readers just emailed me the following, again thanks for this info which might me useful to any of you guys out there playing with VCB:
Today with the help of VMware Support I solved a strange problem.
With all my Solaris10-32Bit VM’ s I was getting an error, when I tried to backup them […]

After installing ESX 3.5 update 1 an error occurs during the boot proces:
Parsing error: parse error: Error adding class VMware_IdentityMemberOfCollection to the repository: CIM_ERR_NOT_FOUND: The requested object could not be found: “VMware_Identity”
Compiling omc-smash-interop-schema.mof into root/PG_Interop
A quick search on the VMTN forum revealed that I wasn’t the only one experiencing these problems. Luckily Mike Laspina already […]

Scott’s post pointed me out to the follow up of the VMotion vs Quick Migration post a week ago. I’ve already blogged about the previous articles so here my thoughts on the new one.
I guess the most important part of Jeff’s post is this:
We’ve drilled into these scenarios further and asked customers, who have currently […]

Yesterday evening I witnessed a weird phenomenon. We had to bring down a complete environment to move a 19″ rack to a different location. We switched the SAN on, waited a couple of minutes and switched the ESX hosts on. When the ESX hosts finished booting we booted the VirtualCenter. Everything looked normal in the […]

Today I combined a couple of Powershell scripts which as a result gives a nice html formatted file with a table. This table contains all VM’s with their VMware Tools status and version. I’ve uploaded the script here. The outcome looks like the following:

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Today a customer called about a problem with the Exchange VM. For some reason the ESX Host where this VM resided was always swapping/ballooning. They checked and double checked the settings but could not find the problem. After a quick scan I noticed that there were limits set on memory for each VM. This particular […]

I just received the following:
New patches are available for ESX Server 3.0.1 and ESX Server 3.0.2.
ESX Server patches can be accessed through the on-line ESX Server Patch Download tool:
[http://app.connect.vmware.com/e/er.aspx?s=524&lid=2272&elq=4D5713F997F04342981A231DF09609D0“>]
Please follow the instructions on the appropriate patch download page.
VMware ESX Server 3.0.1 Patches
ESX-1003516 (Critical): fixes an issue where snapshot of a Suspended Virtual Machine fails;includes a […]

Clint discovered the following:
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Ran into a problem while doing some performance testing on some test VMs. We found that we had no historical performance data for the VM or Host. All we had was real time data. This can be a major issue, especially when you are trying to troubleshoot or like in this […]

Check out the release notes, there are a lot of fixes in this update! There’s also an update to the Update Manager and the Converter plugin.
Download link
Releasenotes link

Today I was testing a scripted installation for a customer. All day long I had weird problems with the script. But whenever I reviewed my script their seemed to be nothing wrong with it. I wrote the scripts with Notepad++ and double checked them with vi and nano. You can imagine I almost threw my […]