VMware ESX/ESXi 4.1 host upgrade failed due to 3rd party updates
I’ve recently been running several ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.1 Upgrades. Generally this is a much easier process due to the Update Manager now handling ESX/ESXi 4.+ Upgrades directly from the vCenter. That...
View ArticlevCenter “Host currently has no management network redundancy”
We recently had an IBM Blade environment where the HA Heartbeat/Management network were sharing the same NIC due to hardware constraints. This will cause an alert warning in vCenter. Ideally, you...
View ArticleESXi 5.1 Manual/Force Upgrade
One of the great features of vCenter 5.1 is the ability to upgrade older 4.x ESX/ESXi hosts to 5.1 from within Upgrade Manager. This being said, I have had several recent deployments where this has...
View ArticleVMware Scan/Stage/Remediate Patching Fails
I was recently patching an ESXi 5.1 host received the following error when attempted to scan, stage or remediate the host: None of the rest of the hosts in the cluster had any issues, so I assumed the...
View ArticleInsufficient resources to satisfy HA
After building or converting a new VM, you may find the following error when you power it on: This is due to Admission Control in VMware calculating your current host utilization and determining you...
View Article“You cannot use the vSphere Client to edit the settings of virtual machines...
After using the VMware 5.5 Convertor to perform a physical to virtual migration, I noted the following error when attempting to edit the properties of the VM in vSphere: “You cannot use the vSphere...
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