Purple screen for ESX host during vSphere 5 Upgrade

Posted on October 27th, 2011 in ESXi, Tips, vCenter, Virtualization | No Comments »

Just read through 1 of the KB here which referring to the potential risk to create a purple screen scenerio during the vSphere 5 upgrade while you ESX host update 2 could potential conflict with the vCenter 5.

You may encounter an issue where:

  • You have recently upgraded your vCenter Server to version 5.0
  • You have hosts of minimum version ESXi 4.0 Update 2 (build 261974) and maximum version ESXi 4.0 Patch 9 (build 360236) in your vCenter Server inventory
  • After the vpxa agents are upgraded, the ESXi 4.0 Update 2 hosts experience a purple screen that includes this error:NOT_IMPLEMENTED bora/vmkernel/filesystems/visorfs/visorfsObj.c:3391
Solution
This issue has been resolved in ESXi 4.0 Update 3. To avoid this issue, upgrade all affected hosts to at least ESXi 4.0 Update 3 (build 398348) before upgrading vCenter Server to 5.0.
please refer to the full post here for more details.

Apply VMware vSphere 4 Update 1 Patches

Posted on November 25th, 2009 in Tips, vSphere | No Comments »

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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How to check VMware tools version using CLI on Linux

Posted on February 10th, 2009 in Operating Systems, Tips | 1 Comment »

Personally, I would said VMware Tools upgrade on Linux is not as easy as Microsoft Windows virtual machine. Every time VMware Tools upgrade must give me some problem especially on SuSE Linux virtual machine. Anyway this article is not discuss about VMware Tools upgrade and I’m focus on “How to check VMware tools version on Linux using CLI”

Option 1:
# grep buildNr /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl
my $buildNr;
$buildNr = '3.5.0 build-143128';
return remove_whitespaces($buildNr);

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