Posts Tagged ‘ESX’

VMware has released ESX(i) 3.5 update4.
Do not forget to read the release notes here or you can go to the download page here
While going through the release notes these things caught my attention:

vCenter 2.5 U2 or higher is required before upgrading to ESX(i) 3.5 U4 according to the Compatibility Matrix
If you are in a managed (enterprise) [...]

A while ago I received a request from the storage department to move a whole ESX cluster to another storage I/O-Group. This would be a disruptive action.
I was wondering if storage VMotion would help me out here if they assigned me some new storage on the other I/O-Group instead of moving the current LUNs.
If you [...]

I’ve been really busy this week

patching my ESX hosts
troubleshooting ballooning problems
moving ESX hosts to other SAN switches
troubleshooting network/vlan problems
putting some effort in helping people out on the VMTN forum. Hey, I even got a top 5 ranking this week
AND reading all those magnificent articles I found out this week

Whenever you are seriously interested in VMware [...]

After upgrading to ESX 3.5 to update3, I found out that the HP management agents needed to be upgraded to version 8.1.1, since this version supports ESX3.5 update3. So I downloaded the new agents and decided to install the latest HBAAPI libraries from Qlogic too. These HBA libraries are not part of the HP agents [...]

Paths to VCP on NGen4
My guess is that the launch of the next generation of VMware vSphere products will probably be sooner than some people can imagine. When I was doing the “Overview of the new vSphere products” lab on VMworld Europe 2009 in Cannes last week, the product was looking very finished. All the [...]

Yesterday I did a post on how to change your ESX root password using a Powershell script and told you that I, as a good administrator, didn’t change my password for ages.
Today VMware just released this KB article on password aging in the ESX console. This way you can force a password change after an [...]

Have you ever been facing your security department demanding you to change your ESX root password?
Well I did. At the current site there’s a strict security policy where passwords must change every 2 months. Offcourse as a good administrator I changed the ESX root account …. ehm …. well …. ehm …. never.
Because we have over [...]

When I was reshuffling some VMs from one cluster to the other, I had a VM that was cut off from the network. When I did some investigation I found that the network adapter was disconnected in the VM Settings. Hmmmm strange.
How could that happen?

Last Friday I was brainstorming with Gabrie van Zanten about the optimal placement of the VMDKs across our LUNs. We tried to come up with an algorithm that could give us insight in what would be our optimal storage layout.
First read the complete post here.
This weekend I was continuously thinking about this challenge.
I came up [...]

Ivo Beerens posted this article last week on the defunct cimservera processes that render an ESX Host unmanageable.
See also this VMWare KB Article.
Symptoms include:

Unable to log in through SSH to the ESX host.
Unable to log in on the local service console.
HA errors.

I ran into this problem a while ago too.
The reason why you cannot login [...]