Erik Zandboer just posted a topic on the VMTN forum about an HA error he received when he updates his machines to 3.5 U2. The error was one almost everyone has probably seen by now “could not contact primary HA agent”. This is normally solved by pressing “reconfigure for ha” or disabling and enabling HA. This wasn’t the case this [...]
Am I the first one to notice this? VMware just released Update 2 for ESX(i) 3.5 and a whole bunch of new patches! So what’s new? Windows Server 2008 support – Windows Server 2008 (Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions) is supported as a guest operating system. With VMware’s memory overcommit technology and the reliability of ESX, virtual machine density can [...]
VMware released 4 patches yesterday: ESX350-200806401-BG – Critical – Updates to VMkernel and hostd ESX350-200806402-BG – General – Update to the Service Console Kernel ESX350-200806404-SG – Security – Security Updates to WebAccess Components Tomcat and JRE ESX350-200806405-BG – General – Update to VMware-esx-vmx Good luck with patching!
Today I noticed the following error at a customer site when I wanted to install the new patch bundle, ”Metadata for patch missing”. After a close inspection I noticed VirtualCenter was installed with a different http port number. For VMware Update Manager to work you will have to open up the firewall manually: esxcfg-firewall -o 81,tcp,out,UpdateManager (Change the port number, in red, according to the [...]
Today I received the following error at a customer site when applying patch via the Update Manager:”Metadata for patch missing.” After a close inspection I noticed VirtualCenter wasn’t running on port 80 but on 81 for some reason. Opening up the ESX Firewall and restarting the VMware Update Manager service seems to fix this problem. The firewall was opened up [...]
I was just testing the new patches on a couple of servers when I noticed that when I pressed “remediate” the first patch(ESX350-200802403-BG) was installed without the ESX host going into maintenance mode. When the second patch(ESX350-200802409-BG) was installed the server went into maintenance mode. According to the VUM Documentation(vi3_vum_10_admin_guide.pdf) the server should always go into maintenance mode before installing [...]
I just noticed that VMware released a new version of ESX 3i on the 10th of January. The current build number is “70348″ and the previous was “67921″. It’s just a minor update: EULA Update—The reissued version of ESX Server 3i Installable incorporates an updated, corrected version of the EULA. Licensing Fix—The reissued version of ESX Server 3i Installable lets [...]
