Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should – Custom VMware Update Manager Depots
That’s the gist of the lesson I learned today – :) Again. A while back, I read about custom depots for VMware Update Manager. I love VMware Update…
Explore the archive
Update Manager
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 on the subject. …
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 with Update Manager…
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…
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 drives that utilized…
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 error : A…
ALERT: ESX 4.0 to 4.0 Update 1 can cause an Unrecoverable system.
I just saw this come across twitter. (BTW: This is a GREAT example of why Twitter is a valuable technology tool if used correctly.) Upgrading ESX 4.0 to…
Uploading and installing patches with the VI Client
Although most ESX patches are now done through VMware's Update Manager but occasionally we will need up manually patch an ESX host. Here is a quick way to…
VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2 Goodies
Here are some other little niceties I have found after upgrading to VMware's ESX 3.5 Update 2. More little hardware facts : Service Tags are displayed in the…