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, and using VMware FT (Fault Tolerance).
Turning Intel VT or AMD-V on must be done on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
