Stick to the Basics–vMotion fails at 21%
I was working with a client recently and after doing a memory upgrade and vSphere upgrade from 5.x to 6.0, my vMotion activity began to fail when moving…
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Lock-Blocked by vSphere Lockdown mode.
I was doing some routine upgrades this past night when I ran into a strange issue that I figured I would make a note of. While using VMware’s…
Safe to upgrade to vSphere 5.5 Update 1 with NFS
After a couple of months of ignoring Update Manager’s rollup patch to vSphere 5.5 Update 1, it is now safe to click install. :) (Although you might want…
VMware’s Message of the Day – Your vSphere client is frozen.
Every so often, I come across a client that is leveraging the Message of the Day in their vSphere vCenter configuration. Usually, it’s a friendly reminder to disconnect…
XenServer to VMware Jingle [to the tune of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]
I’m currently on a project converting from XenServer hosts over to VMware vSphere and while doing some routine research, ran across this clever (although nerdy) lyric parody on a…
VMware Build number Decoder Table
Ran across an EXCELLENT KB article in VMware's Knowledge Base this week. Correlating vCenter Server and ESXi/ESX host build numbers to update levels (1014508) If you have been…
Have you enabled the Turbo Button on your ESX hosts?
If you haven’t checked the Power Management settings on your ESX hosts lately, you might be surprised to find your Processors set to use the Intel SpeedStep® technology. …
Upgrade those ESX 3.5 servers if you still have them …
Ran into this wonderful error message today during a migration to vSphere 5.1. I didn’t realize that vCenter 5.1 no longer supports ESX 3.5 so now to get…
From the Not So Surprising News Department–vSphere 5.1 Support for Latest XD/PVS.
For those of you running Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 and Citrix Provisioning Server 6.1, you may or may not have upgraded to vSphere 5.1. If you checked on support…