While looking for VMA 4.1 documentation I came across this bit of time travel. VMA version 5.0 with a realease date of August 5 2011, which is just about 2 months from now. If VMA is being upgraded to 5, I would suspect vSphere would also see an update around that same time. I should [...]
I ran into an issue with VMWare converter hanging while in block conversion mode while trying to virtualize an instance of Microsoft SQL server. It turns out that it’s a known issue in version 4.3 of the standalone converter. My conversion was hanging due to the cluster size of some disks being larger than 4k. [...]
ESX 4.1 (update n) will be the last installable version of ESX to retain the service console. There is no upgrade path for ESX to ESXi, you must reinstall to migrate or upgrade. Upgrading is a great reason to consider modernizing your virtualization infrastructure. VMWare currently recommends that new deployments of vSphere 4.x are done on [...]
After having connected to your VC server: Get-VM | select-Object Name, @{ Name=”NumCPU”; Expression={ ($_ | measure-object -property NumCPU -sum).Sum }}, @{ Name=”StorageGB”; Expression={ ($_ | get-harddisk | measure-object -property CapacityKB -sum).Sum / 1024 / 1024 }}, @{ Name=”MemoryGB”; Expression={ ($_ | measure-object -property MemoryMB -sum).Sum / 1024 }} | Format-Table -AutoSize This produces the [...]