Posts Tagged ‘vMotion’

ESX – Enabling Hardware Virtualization

There are several advantages to enabling hardware virtualization technology in the BIOS of your servers when using vSphere or ESX. These include the ability to use EVC (Enhanced vMotion Compatibility) on your DRS clusters, the use of 64bit OS guests, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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