Tag: vMotion

Upgrade EMC/Dell VxRail Best Practices (4.7.100 to 4.7.301)

Upgrade EMC/Dell VxRail Best Practices (4.7.100 to 4.7.301)

Time for another VXRail upgrade post!  This time we are upgrading from VxRail 4.7.100-11859441 to 4.7.301-26249014.  This will bring the underlying vSphere environment up to ... Read More

Don’t neglect the Virtual Machine hardware!

Don’t neglect the Virtual Machine hardware!

Here’s a quick cautionary tale of a client who let their Virtual Machine Hardware get quite a few cycles out of date.   We were setting ... Read More

Stick to the Basics–vMotion fails at 21%

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 ... Read More

VMware 6 : Unable to connect to the MKS: Internal Error

VMware 6 : Unable to connect to the MKS: Internal Error

Almost EVERY SINGLE time I see this error, it’s DNS related.  When I ran into it tonight, I immediately thought I had fat fingered the ... Read More

vCenter Full of Errors!  Not a problem.

vCenter Full of Errors! Not a problem.

Interesting note from a buddy of mine.  He logged into his VirtualCenter (5.x) and found almost all of his Virtual Machines with an error condition.   ... Read More