I just noticed this new KB article that deals about not being able to upgrade ESXi on a Dell box because of the fact that the virtual media is attached: Upgrade to ESXi 3.5 Update 2. If you cannot upgrade to ESXi 3.5 Update 2, use the following workaround: Connect to the DRAC through ILO, as follows: Open the Media tab. [...]

There has been a lot of discussion(check Scott’s take on this) around this advanced NFS setting called “NFS.LockDisable”. In short, you can disable the locking mechanism on NFS volumes with this setting. In the past NetApp had a best practices document which stated that it should be disabled by setting it to “1″. But, as some noticed this can and probably [...]