The first patch for ESXi has been released so I figured this was a great time to create and article around how to patch your Image Profile with a new update. The process is fairly straight forward as in this case you will need to create a new image-profile (described here) and link it to a new rule (New-DeployRule and [...]
I am working on a whitepaper about vCenter Server migrations and stumbled upon this great tool which is hidden away on the vCenter install media called “datamigration”. The data migration tool allows you to backup a vCenter Server configuration which is hosted by the MS SQL Express databases that is packaged with vCenter. Now this might seem like a limited [...]
My VMware Cloud Team colleague Max Daneri of VMTS fame was building a vSphere 4.1 environment this week. During the installation of VUM(VMware Update Manager) he ran into an issue with the database connection which I thought would be useful to share with you. After some playing around he found out that apparently VUM requires a 32-bit ODBC DSN. Which [...]
VMware just released VMware vCenter SRM 4.0.1. Site Recovery Manager 4.0.1 File size: 104 MB You can find the download here. This patch fixes the following issues: Test recovery times have been improved for ESX 4.0.1 hosts that use iSCSI arrays. a problem that could cause a recovery plan to hang while powering-off virtual machines at the protected site if [...]
VMware just released VMware vCenter Update Manager 4.0 Update 1 Patch 1. This patch resolves the following issues : After upgrading Cisco Nexus 1000V VSM to the latest version, you might not be able to patch the kernel of ESX hosts attached to the vDS (KB 1015717)Upgrading Cisco Nexus 1000V VSM to the latest version upgrades the Cisco Virtual Ethernet [...]
VMware just released a maintenance release for VMware View 4. View Manager Version 4.0.1 | 18 February 2010 | Build: 233023 (View Manager), 210930 (View Composer) What’s New: VMware View 4.0.1 is a maintenance release that resolves some known issues in the previous releases. For details, see the Resolved Issues section. This release includes the following new features. Localization of [...]
When I tried to download patches via a freshly installed VMware vSphere Update Manager today I received the following error: https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/index.xml; hosting the patch definitions and patches cannot be reached or has no patch data Although we configured a proxy including the appropriate account it would not work. As suggested in this KB article I removed the “http://” part of [...]
