Tag: vSphere

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More