Problem You’ve just upgraded the majority of your ESXi 4.x hosts to ESXi 5.0 and attempt to vMotion the rest of your virtual machines from the ESXi 4.0 host to the ESXi 5.0 host but
Problem You’ve just completed the upgrade of 3 out of 4 of your blades from ESXi 4.1 to 5.0 attempt to migrate / vMotion the virtual machines from the ESXi 4.1 blade to the other
I know I’m bound to forget this one day as I did today when I had to upgrade a few ESXi 4.1 blades to 5.0. The blades don’t have CD/DVD-ROMs so I had to burn
As most of us who worked with vSphere 4 would probably know, changing the MTU size of a vSwitch had to be done via command line with the: esxcfg-vswitch –m #### vSwitch# … which looked
For those who have come across problems mentioned in 2 of my previous blog posts: vCenter / Virtual Center Service fails to start with event ID: 1000, 7024, 7001, 18456 https://blog.terenceluk.com/2010/07/vcenter-virtual-center-service-fails-to.html Addressing the VirtualCenter service
Problem You’ve suffered a failure on your VMware SRM’s “Protected Site” or “Recovery Site” server. You have no backups so you proceed to rebuild the server by reinstalling and restoring the databases. Upon completing the
As with my previous post, I had to document a recent vSphere 5 install and since I already have the screenshots, I figure I’ll take the time to write this post to show what an
While installing VMware vCenter 5.0 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 isn’t very exciting, I had to document one of my installs earlier last week so while it doesn’t differ too much from 4.x, I
It’s been such a busy 2 months for me over here that I just realized I’ve written 5 posts in October 2011 and 3 posts in November 2011. My draft items in my Outlook which
Problem You’ve just rebuilt VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager) 4.1.1 after suffering a host failure and would like to rerun the Configure option for the Array Manager: You navigate through the wizard to the Review
