During the installation of VirtualCenter the following error code was presented “25036”. With no further message the installation is cut-off. After a close inspection it seemed that there already were a couple of SQL Express 2005 services installed, the software was removed and the services were still there but disabled. I guess for some reason the removal of SQL 2005 Express wasn’t successful. The installation procedure seems to have a hard time overwriting the registry values or changing the old values. This problem can easily be solved by manually deleting that specific service in the registry. (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services)
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What’s New in VMware Infrastructure 3: Performance Enhancements
There’s a new PDF about performance enhancements in ESX 3.5:
The new features in VMware® Infrastructure 3 makes it even easier for organizations to virtualize their most demanding and intense workloads. The new version of VMware Infrastructure 3 provides significant performance enhancements, including the release of VMware ESX Server 3.5 and a new ultra-thin hypervisor called VMware ESX Server 3i that can significantly.
Download:
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vi3_performance_enhancements_wp.pdf
esx-autopatch.pl
For all those not using the VirtualCenter Update Manager, Dominic uploaded an update on his esx-autopatch.pl script. You can now also patch 3.5 hosts with this script, which can come in handy for scripted installs!
vmkping results in “syscall version mismatch (compiled: 0x7616c4e3, kernel: 0x50f63116)”
When troubleshooting a VMotion problem on an unpatched ESX 3.0.2 update 1 host today I wanted to use vmkping. This constantly resulted in the following error message:
syscall version mismatch (compiled: 0x7616c4e3, kernel: 0x50f63116)
I did not find any useful info on google so I checked the VMware knowledge base, maybe some over at VMware can read my mind or it’s a pure coincidence they just updated the following KB article, it seems to be a bug which is fixed in ESX-1002424. It’s actually mentioned in the release notes… I should read those more often I guess.
New version of ESX 3.5 and patches for 3.0.x
VMware just released a new version of the ESX 3.5 ISO according to their download site. The release notes haven’t been update yet so unfortunately I can’t tell you what’s included, but my guess would be the patches released on the 17th of January.
Latest Released Version: 3.5.0 | 02/20/08 | 64607 | 565 MB
There are no new patches available for 3.5 at the moment, but they did patch 3.0.x and the following is fixed in these patches(8 patches for 3.0.2, over 140MB):
- Security Update to the Samba Package
- Security Updates to the Python Package
- Fix for aacraid SCSI Driver Security Issue
- Virtual Machines on the ESX Server host do not power ON automatically
- ESX Server host might stop responding when a CD-ROM drive is accessed
- iSCSI LUNs in the pass-through mode might cause the ESX Server host to stop responding
- Fixes for Remote-Console Black-out, OpenSolaris Boot Delay, Duplicate Packet Issue; Support for Virtual Machines to Share Generic SCSI Devices
- Fixes for VMware Tools Installer
By the way I signed in on the patch/updates email and haven’t received anything yet… Did any of you guys receive anything?