Not enough room for vSphere 5 Upgrade? Free some up!
While using VMware’s Update Manager to upgrade a 4.0 ESX host to vSphere 5, I ran into a space issue. Looking at the event tab on the ESX…
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Quest Discontinues vConverter.
This shouldn’t really come as a surprise to anyone since the whole P2V space is really now just a niche tactical market anyway. I would imagine that MOST…
VMware Purple Screen of Death KB alert.
Just noticed this alert on the VMware support site. If you are upgrading to vCenter 5, be sure to verify that ALL of your hosts are running at…
vSphere 5 Trust issues : Cannot synchronize host.
While doing some seemingly straightforward patching via Update Manager on my Home Lab ESX servers, I got this strange message after a reboot. Cannot synchronize host Carlo-esxi2. Cannot…
Enabling/Disabling SSH via vCenter
Sometimes it is useful to have an SSH session to an ESXi server for troubleshooting. You can always enable it via the console (F2 –> Troubleshooting Options –>…
AppSpeed 1.5 left behind if you upgrade to vSphere 5.
I dig AppSpeed! I know I might be in the minority here in the sense that most people don’t even know what the product is but trust me,…
ESX Hardware Boot options (via vCenter GUI)
Not sure if this one is new or not but I’ve NEVER seen the Boot Options before in vCenter for a host. I think it’s pretty cool! You…
Patching ESXi with vMA
Today I had to set up some ESXi servers that required additional hardware drivers to recognize the 10GB NICs we purchased for them. I’ve done this easily before…
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 of Update Manager…