According to the vSphere 4.0 release notes (http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_esx40_vc40_rel_notes.html) vCenter Server 4.0 becomes unresponsive in large environments if managing ESX Server 3.5 hosts prior to ESX 3.5 patch 10 vCenter Server 4.0 can become unresponsive in large environments after 30 days if it manages any ESX Server 3.5 hosts prior to ESX Server 3.5 patch 10. […]
I’ve been using the new Storage VMotion functionality fairly heavily over the last couple of months. I have encountered a couple of significant bugs whilst using it, which have resulted in corrupted VMDK files. Here are my two tips when using Storage VMotion, to avoid the problems I have seen: Ensure that you have sufficient […]
For anyone who doesn’t subscribe to Duncan Epping’s great blog, he reminded me of this great command line snippet: Enter maintenance mode from the ESX command line: vimsh -n -e /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter I have used this command several times in anger. It is particularly useful if you can’t get to your VirtualCenter server for whatever reason. […]
I’ve just uploaded version 1.2 There over a dozen corrections, updates, and a few small additions. Many thanks to everyone who has emailed me since the last release, particularly Simon Price and Peter Vroomen.