http://blog.vmpros.nl It's all about virtualization... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:11:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2011/01/07/vmware-evc-method-not-found-vmomi-hostsystemarray-evcstate-get_badsoftwarehostsblockingevc/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2011/01/07/vmware-evc-method-not-found-vmomi-hostsystemarray-evcstate-get_badsoftwarehostsblockingevc/#comments Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:51:24 +0000 sanderdaems http://blog.vmpros.nl/2011/01/07/vmware-evc-method-not-found-vmomi-hostsystemarray-evcstate-get_badsoftwarehostsblockingevc/ Today I got an error when selecting the “VMware EVC” option in the Cluster Settings at my vCenter 4.0 host with multiple HP Blades with same CPU. Error message: Method not found: ‘Vmomi.HostSystemArray EVCState.get_BadSoftwareHostsBlockingEVC()’   Solution: This issue occurs when a system installed with vSphere 4.1 and you use vSphere 4.0 Client on that system [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2011/01/07/vmware-evc-method-not-found-vmomi-hostsystemarray-evcstate-get_badsoftwarehostsblockingevc/feed/ 3 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/10/03/vmware-install-in-nagiosxi-the-vmware-plugin-including-vmware-sdk/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/10/03/vmware-install-in-nagiosxi-the-vmware-plugin-including-vmware-sdk/#comments Sun, 03 Oct 2010 18:34:04 +0000 sanderdaems http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/10/03/vmware-install-in-nagiosxi-the-vmware-plugin-including-vmware-sdk/ I’m running NagiosXI in my testlab, to monitor my ESX hosts/VM’s I need to install the Nagios VMware Plugin. What did I do to realize the VMware host monitoring: You need to install the SDK software.. download the VMware vSphere™ SDK for Perl download version: vSphere SDK for Perl – 32-bit Linux Installer because Nagios [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/10/03/vmware-install-in-nagiosxi-the-vmware-plugin-including-vmware-sdk/feed/ 3 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/10/02/vmware-how-to-rollback-esxi-4-1-to-4-0-upgrade/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/10/02/vmware-how-to-rollback-esxi-4-1-to-4-0-upgrade/#comments Sat, 02 Oct 2010 13:08:56 +0000 sanderdaems http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/10/02/vmware-how-to-rollback-esxi-4-1-to-4-0-upgrade/ Sometimes it is necessary to rollback an installation of VMware ESXi, reverting to a previous installation. Last weekend I did this for testing in my home lab. It’s pretty easy… ^ My upgraded VMware ESXi 4.1.0 Build 260247 server   ^ Reboot the host and press SHIFT + H to revert the rollback. Message: Current [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/10/02/vmware-how-to-rollback-esxi-4-1-to-4-0-upgrade/feed/ 8 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/09/03/vmware-how-to-create-a-bootable-esxi-usb-stick/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/09/03/vmware-how-to-create-a-bootable-esxi-usb-stick/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:15:58 +0000 Daniel Buonocore http://blog.vmpros.nl/?p=3299 Last year we already posted about creating a bootable USB stick. In the last post we used WinImage to create the bootable USB stick to boot ESXi. Some time ago I found a tool which makes it much easier to create a bootable ESXi USB Stick. I am going to use UNetbootin to create bootable [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/09/03/vmware-how-to-create-a-bootable-esxi-usb-stick/feed/ 16 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/08/31/vmware-esx-end-of-life-esxi-will-be-the-future/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/08/31/vmware-esx-end-of-life-esxi-will-be-the-future/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:48:51 +0000 sanderdaems http://blog.vmpros.nl/?p=3278 ]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2010/08/31/vmware-esx-end-of-life-esxi-will-be-the-future/feed/ 0 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/06/08/vmware-vmotion-cpu-compatibility-requirements-for-intel-processors-1991/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/06/08/vmware-vmotion-cpu-compatibility-requirements-for-intel-processors-1991/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:30:11 +0000 Daniel Buonocore http://blog.vmpros.nl/?p=1518 Why am I unable to migrate virtual machines with VMotion across Intel processors? In ESX 3.5 Update 2 and later, VMware recommends using Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) to eliminate many VMotion CPU compatibility problems. For more information on EVC, see KB 1003212.   To ensure system stability during migration with VMotion, VirtualCenter and vCenter Server [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/06/08/vmware-vmotion-cpu-compatibility-requirements-for-intel-processors-1991/feed/ 0 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/05/29/vmware-how-to-create-bootable-esxi-4-usb-stick/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/05/29/vmware-how-to-create-bootable-esxi-4-usb-stick/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 22:27:14 +0000 sanderdaems http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/05/29/vmware-how-to-create-bootable-esxi-4-usb-stick/ Het wijkt weinig af van de configuratie van ESXi 3, toch even de tijd genomen om hier een documentje over te schrijven. ESX 4i vereist minimaal 2048 MB aan geheugen Download: VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.0.0-164009.x86_64.iso - Mount ISO - Open: image.tgz - Open: image.tgz\usr\lib\vmware\installer\VMware-VMvisor-big-164009-x86_64.dd.bz2 - Extract: VMware-VMvisor-big-164009-x86_64.dd naar C:\USB\ - Download: WinImage 8.1 - Ga naar: Disk > [...]]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/05/29/vmware-how-to-create-bootable-esxi-4-usb-stick/feed/ 6 http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/03/18/vmware-fastscp-30-released/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/03/18/vmware-fastscp-30-released/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:42:54 +0000 sanderdaems http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/03/18/vmware-fastscp-30-released/ New Features: - Full ESXi support; - Improved file copy scheduling options; - Improved user interface; Release notes: http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esx-server/fastscp/documents/veeam_fastscp_3.0_release_notes.pdf Download: http://www.veeam.com/esx-fastscp.html]]> http://blog.vmpros.nl/2009/03/18/vmware-fastscp-30-released/feed/ 0