Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

update

Two new patches for ESX(i) 3.5

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VMware released two patches on the 20th of March. Both patches are related to an issue with the Broadcom bnx2x driver. If you are running on hardware with a Broadcom NetXtreme II 57710, 57711, or 57711E NICs be sure to look into the patches below:

  1. ESX350-200903412-BG – PATCH – KB 1009232 – General
    Updates Kernel Source and VMNIX
  2. ESX350-200903411-BG – PATCH – KB 1009231 – Critical
    Updates the bnx2x Driver for Broadcom

Download them now!

Update to several SRM SRA’s

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Just noticed that several Storage Replication Adapter’s(SRA) have been updated over the last couple of weeks. For those using one of these specific SRA’s it might be beneficial to update:

  1. EMC RecoverPoint 3.1 Storage Replication Adapter
    Version 1.0.2.1 | Released 03/17/2009
  2. Storage Array Adapter for IBM N-Series
    Version 1.0.1 | Released 03/18/2009
  3. IBM DS4000 / DS5000 Series Storage Replication Adapter
    Version 01.00.35.12 | Released 03/06/2009
  4. NetApp Storage Replication Adapter
    Version 1.0.1 | Released 03/06/2009
  5. HP EVA Storage Replication Adapter
    Version 1.0.1 | Released 02/11/2009
  6. IBM DS8000 Storage Replication Adapter
    Version 1.0.0 | Released 02/13/2009
  7. IBM SVC Storage Replication Adapter
    Version 1.0 | Released 02/13/2009
  8. XP XP Storage Replication Adapter
    Version 1.00.05 | Released 02/02/2009

Upgrading ESX 3.5 to the next version with Update Manager

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In my Lab I was exploring the upgrade possibilities from ESX 3.5 to the next version.  Usually I do a full reinstall just to be absolutely sure there’s no old packages floating around. For testing purposes I decided to do an upgrade of the ESX host. I opened up Update Manager and with a couple simple clicks I upgraded my host to the next version. (I did an upgrade of vCenter and Update Manager before I even started.) I removed a couple of screenshots that didn’t contain much useful info, in total it were 15 steps to create a baseline and update the host:

Create a new Baseline:

[Read more…] about Upgrading ESX 3.5 to the next version with Update Manager

SRM Patch released

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VMware just released patch 2 for SRM 1.0 Update 1. It’s a cumulative patch that corrects several problems with 1.o Update 1:

  • a problem that prevents protected virtual machines from following recommended Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) settings when recovering to more than one DRS cluster.
  • a problem observed at sites that support more than seven ESX hosts. If you refresh inventory mappings when connected to such a site, the display becomes unresponsive for up to ten minutes. (This problem was also addressed in Patch 1 for SRM 1.0 Update 1.)

Before you apply the patch please backup both SRM server’s / databases.