Re: Update Manager
Upgrading the hosts and the VMs are separate tasks. First upgrade your hosts and then start upgrading VMware Tools followed by the Virtual Hardware/Compatibility. André
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Re: Is DataRecovery in esxi 5.1 worth of money?
Hello MartinF10, VDP (VMware Data Protecion, formerly VDR) has been pretty solid in my experience. I've used it in a production environment to backup about 50 VM's without...
View ArticleUpgrade to 5.1 U1A Fails
Upgraded SSO Successfully (dedicated server)Upgraded Inventory Service Successfully (dedicated server)Upgrading vCenter Server fails. As per the logs, error indicates "SSO Registration tool failed...
View ArticleRe: How to wipe and do a new install with attached iscsi luns?
Did you figure this out?I am in the same boat. Have a cluster of esx 3.5 with three hosts and trying to upgrade to esxi 5.0. Recently upgrade vcenter server to version 5.0 (needed to upgrade esx 3.5 U5...
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Huckfinn, No, I haven't figured it out yet, I am attempting to locate some spare equipment so I can set up a test environment to test the procedure. What I am afraid of is that the newly installed...
View ArticleRe: How to wipe and do a new install with attached iscsi luns?
With ESX 3.5 a local datastore is created so that is what is being seen - I would acces your controlled card for the internal disks and use that to remove and recrate the drive which will remove any...
View ArticleRe: How to wipe and do a new install with attached iscsi luns?
What you describe is correct - if you are doing an inplace upgrade when you reattach the iSCSI network connections it will recognize the storage -
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Thanks Weinstein. Please help me outline the procedure correctly. I plan to reuse the hostname and the IP. There are three ESX 3.5 hosts sharing vmfs 3.x datastores. For a clean install on one of the...
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The first step is to upgrade vCenter to vSphere 5 -Please help me outline the procedure correctly. I plan to reuse the hostname and the IP. There are three ESX 3.5 hosts sharing vmfs 3.x datastores....
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vCenter Server and the update manager both have been upgraded to vsphere 5. Now, the only task is to move to esxi 5.0 U2 since that is the furthest that is supported per HCL. Thanks for the link. So,...
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A couplde of comments: Before Step 5 reconnect the iSCSI network - Since you are doing an upgrade you should really not have to do anything to the host other than add the host to the vCenter...
View ArticleRe: Upgrade to 5.1 U1A Fails
Can you attach the install logs(viminst.log and any vc-msi-log) RegardsGirish
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Thanks a ton weinstein5!
View ArticleRe: VSphere client disappears
Were you ever able to solve this issue. I've recently started having the same problem on my Windows 7 system (physical) when attempting to upload or download files from the datastores. I'm runnig...
View ArticleRe: Error 29155.Identity source discovery error.
Resolved this issue but after when I completed installation. Details here LDAPS Identity Source for VMware vCenter Single Sign On 5.1 | Ashfaq Ahmad Shinwary
View Articleesxi 5, move to another hardware, datastore on NAS
Hi, I have a esxi host and all virtual machines (including vcenter) are on a NAS which is a qnap. We need to change the esxi server, there is nothing to do with the qnap, it stays there. I think the...
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Hi You are on right track . A. Install new esxiB mount the NAS box C. configure the Networking D ensure you are able to access the datastore which has VM'sE. If everything looks good, shut down the...
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Re: esxi 5, move to another hardware, datastore on NAS
You are on the right path. Just for help, if you want to automate the operation to add all VMs to the inventory without the need to do it manually to all VMs: How to register all VMs on all datastores...
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