It seems the VirtualCenter upgrade process is not getting any better. I can’t for the life of me understand how bugs like this got through with the Update 2 release, but they did and are one of the primary drivers for my company to roll out Update 3 asap (that and the security fixes). But [...]
A rather odd bug with VirtualCenter is the inability to deploy VM’s with a SCSI controller but without a disk… even creating a template from a VM that has a SCSI controller but no disk results in a template with no SCSI controller (you then have to convert it to a VM, re-add the SCSI [...]
After my previous postings on the VirtualCenter upgrade process, I had some correspondence with VMware devs that was proxied by John Troyer from the VMTN Blog. During the course of that correspondence, I lamented the generic names given to the stats rollup SQL agent jobs. SQL agent jobs are created per-instance and thus having generic [...]
Removing invalid datastores from the VirtualCenter database (in 2.0.x at least) is a bit of a pain… y’know, the ones that don’t actually surface in the UI but you know are there because you get a “duplicate name” style error when adding a new datastore.
Manually editing the VirtualCenter database should never be taken lightly, and [...]
EEEK! In my original post on the VC 2.5 Update 1 upgrade process, I incorrectly stated that the VC database user needs full sysadmin on the database server for the upgrade, and pondered why that was the case. Well it turns out that is entirely NOT the case at all!
Had I RTFM, I would [...]
Well what can I say… the old days, the bad days, the all-or-nothing days – they’re back!
Once again, the VirtualCenter upgrade process is the equivalent of a full uninstall and reinstall. Someone better let the developers of the VMware management tools suite (or at least whoever writes the installers) that VMware are supposed to be [...]
I thought VMware were going to make a liar of me for a minute, but as reported here VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 1, ESX 3.5 Update 1 and ESXi 3.5 Update 1 have been released on April 10th. Several other plugins (Update Manager, Converter) have also received Update 1’s.
Doesn’t look to be anything mind blowing [...]
