Too often I read upgrade plans or visit sites with plans to upgrade VMware products or buy new hosts and notice that the VMware Compatibility Guides have never been checked when making plans. First thing I always do when changing big parts in a virtual infrastructure is to dive into the compatibility guides to check […]
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VMware vSphere 5.1 iPXE problems with AutoDeploy
Short story: Can I replace the new vCenter 5.1 iPXE boot with good old vCenter 5.0 PXE? Yes you can !!!! I called on twitter for help for someone to send me the contents of their AutopDeploy 5.0 FTPRoot directory and I promptly received a response from Roman ( @medea61 ). After placing the AutoDeploy […]
vRAM licensing remains for VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1
UPDATE: After I published this post I got a response from VMware stating there was an error on their website. The free hypervisor is limited to 32GB physical RAM, there is no longer a vRAM limit. Their website originally reported 32GB vRAM and 32GB physical limit. This has now changed to “For vSphere Hypervisor 5.1, […]
Reminder: Keep an eye on your vCenter SQL DB
Past two months I’ve received three calls from customers who’s vCenter suddenly stopped working because their SQL database had stopped because the logs had filled up. Turns out few people regularly check the status of their SQL database. VMware has written some very good KB articles on what to do when your SQL DB fills […]
VMware Tools version number higher than expected
Today, when performing a VMware Health Check, I came across a strange issue with a customer of mine. Well, issue is maybe a big word, but I discovered the VMware Tools version some of the VMs had running, were newer than the VMware Tools version from a newly installed VM. To make sure I double […]