If you’ve upgraded to vSphere 4.1 and have Standard licensing, you may have noticed that vMotion is now supported at that licensing level. Previously, vMotion was only available with Enterprise licenses and above. (Storage vMotion is still a feature only available with Enterprise & Enterprise Plus.) One of the nice features about rebooting hosts in […]
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ESX(i) NTP Server settings: PowerCLI
I read a great post by Roger Lund today that discussed timekeeping in VMware virtual machines. That got me thinking, “How would this be handled with PowerCLI?” A blog post was born. 🙂
vMotion failing at 82%: VMware
The other day, one of my coworkers was attempting to upgrade a cluster from ESX 4.0 to ESXi 4.1. He started on a host that was empty (no DRS; manually load balanced cluster), and after that completed he began to evacuate the other 2 ESX 4.0 hosts to the newly installed ESXi 4.1 host. While […]
Guest troubleshooting 101: VMware
Lately I’ve been fighting a remote cluster that has had its share of host and guest issues; this latest issue piqued my interest and its solution was so simple that I chuckled a bit. Problem: The guest will not respond to power commands thru vCenter The guest OS has been shutdown thru Windows, but the […]