Enhanced Vmotion Capabilities and You!

Nathan Simon — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:05:05 +0000

Sometimes you need to enable EVC to make sure vMotion plays nice with your ESX Hosts, I used this document as a reference point to make sure everything would work once EVC was enabled. Check it out.

For those questioning, “Can I enable this on the fly without downing any ESX Hosts or VMs?” The answer is yes you can enable it on the fly, just make sure to comply with the compatibility results when selecting your processor type, be it Core2Duo or Core2Duo 45nm etc…

-NS

vSphere vCenter Update Manager SSL Error.

Nathan Simon — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:42:56 +0000

Some people over look this when upgrading to vCenter 4, even though it warns you before installing vCenter… yeah I fell for it also.

Upgrading VirtualCenter 2.5 to vCenter Server 4.0 Update 1 without upgrading VUM and Converter might result in certain issues
If you upgrade VirtualCenter 2.5 to vCenter 4.0 Update 1 without upgrading VMware Update Manager (VUM) and VMware Converter, you might encounter the following issues:

When you are logging in to vCenter Server, the vSphere Client might display the error message “The request failed due to an SSL error”. Clicking OK for this message might display the error message The server could not interpret the client’s request. Login might succeed if you click OK for this error message.

So easy fix, as it says above, you haven’t updated VMware Update Manager, go back to the vSphere vCenter CD and run the Update Manager Installer, the rest is easy from there.

-NS

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Enhanced Vmotion Capabilities and You!

vSphere vCenter Update Manager SSL Error.