Tag: Update Manager

vSphere Installation Media : OEM or VMware?

vSphere Installation Media : OEM or VMware?

Here is a topic that has recently come up for me at a few clients so I figured I would just jot some notes down ... Read More

How to Add a 3rd Party driver to a baseline in Update Manager

How to Add a 3rd Party driver to a baseline in Update Manager

Working with the Nutanix clusters, I had an opportunity to upgrade them to vSphere 5 via Update Manager.  The process of upgrading an ESX host ... Read More

No more Windows Patching via VMware Update Manager 5.

No more Windows Patching via VMware Update Manager 5.

Messing around the new VMware Update Manager and I noticed this little piece of information.  Update Manager 5.0 does not support VM patching.  Prior versions ... Read More

No room to upgrade from ESX3 to ESX4 vSphere. Time to Repartition!

No room to upgrade from ESX3 to ESX4 vSphere. Time to Repartition!

I was recently upgrading an ESX host from ESX3.5 to vSphere when I ran into an interesting issue.  The server was built with 36GB local ... Read More

vMotion Error : Failed to write.

vMotion Error : Failed to write.

While trying to Migrate some machines (Cold and Hot Migrations) from my old 3.5 farm to my new shiny vSphere lab, I received the following ... Read More