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: As you can see, the VMware tools status is “ok” but the versions are totally out [...]
Clint discovered the following: Source – 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 case get performance [...]
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
For some weird reason the customization specification wizard in VirtualCenter 2.5 fails when entering the administrator password. The error: An internal error occurred, and the wizard is unable to store the administrator password securely. After reinstalling VirtualCenter the error still occurs. I googled the error and stumbled upon this VMware KB but this did not solve my problem…. I’m lost, [...]
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 [...]
VMware seems to have ditched the product name “3i” and silently introduced “ESXi”. I noticed it when the download page was updated today. But you can also read it on the “product section” of the VMware website. I think this is a better name instead of differentiation in versions, keeping the versions alligned and changing the name makes more sense [...]
There are new iso’s / builds coming up for 3i, 3.5 and VirtualCenter: VMware ESX 3.5 Update 1 Latest Version: 3.5 | 4/10/2008 | Build: 82663 VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 1 Latest Version: 2.5 | 4/10/2008 | Build: 79820 VMware ESXi 3.5 Installable Update 1 Latest Version: 3.5 | 4/10/2008 | Build: 82664 Unfortunately the iso’s aren’t available for download [...]
