Posts Tagged ‘vSphere/ESX’

Posted on June 6th, 2009 by by Steve

ESX snapshot deletion times out

First, let me say that in my dealings with ESX, a snapshot deletion process will rarely timeout if your snapshots are properly managed. Snapshots are meant to be taken before modifying the guest OS, and then removed within 2 or 3 days. Forgotten snapshots can cause a multitude of problems ranging from filling up your [...]

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Posted on June 6th, 2009 by by Steve

vMotion issues after upgrade to vSphere

I recently upgraded two test hosts to vSphere. Both hosts were placed in a non EVC enabled cluster. After upgrading the vmware tools and the virtual hardware version from version 4 to 7  I noticed I was no longer able to vMotion some virtual machines. Turns out that during the virtual hardware upgrade there may [...]

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