Posted on November 26th, 2009 in Tips | No Comments »
Just found the note from VMware today about the possibility of upgrade fail if you are trying to update you ESX 4 to update 1 with update manager.
When attempting to upgrade ESX 4.0 to ESX 4.0 Update 1, you may experience the following symptoms:
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VMware ESX 4.0 Update 1(Build 208167) was released on 19 Nov 2009 and I did a patch update on 3 of my vSphere Dev Servers included of 1 ESX (build 164009) server and 2 ESXi (build 164009 & 171294) servers on Dell PE2950 today.
The Redhat Linux and Windows 2003 & 2008 Virtual Machines VMware tools upgraded successful and everything look goods after the Update 1 patched.
I would suggest you refer to VMware Communities – vSphere Upgrade and Install forum & “vSphere 4u1 – any issues” thread before apply any VMware vSphere ESX/ESXi Update 1 patches on production environment.
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Recently there are some request from my client who suggested to have their production and DR site to be automated protected and fail over in the event of disaster. VMware SRM seems to be right choice for most of the time, but these clients are decided to bring it to another level of fail over procedure during the DR happen. I am doing some research today and found this interesting topic from Netapp which the Metro cluster suppose to synchronize from production to DR through dark fiber to prevent controller failure, DR or disk corruption.
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I’m getting an “error message: 28038″ just before the VMware VCenter Server installation end as screen shot below:
Workaround:
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Netapp had official release the virtual storage console for VMware ESX host. You can view more information from here.
If you are netapp existing customers, you can download the software from here
Below is the summary I link from Netapp official blog site
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