We upgraded 15 hosts in one environment last week. Tonight we are doing the vmtools upgrade then the virtual hw upgrade to a selection of guests. 250 guest systems so it will be a long night.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Eldridge, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > We also purchased our hosts thru Dell and they are "OEM" licenses which means > first call to Dell. I have had to get them to up it to VMWare directly. It > has worked out ok up til now. > I don't have any issues with the esx cluster. It just runs. Now when it's > time to upgrade to ver. 4... > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Leone [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:49 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: OT: can't power off a VM on ESX 3.5 > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:22 PM, N Parr <[email protected]> wrote: >> Neither would I other than a last resort, I had this same issue with a guest >> not shutting down a couple weeks ago and called tech support to resolve the >> problem. That's the first solution, but I'm assuming he doesn't have >> support or he wouldn't have been asking here. > > No, I have support. :-) But since we bought our VMware through HP, I > have to call HP support, and go to their VMware support desk. That can > be ... convoluted ... > > If it was an actual emergency, I would have done that. But since it > wasn't critical, I figured I'd ask here. (and I knew it wasn't > critical since no alarms triggered; no other hosts complained; no > users complained they couldn't access various hosts; and the responses > here weren't along the lines of "Wow, that's serious .."). > > :-) > > I wouldn't bounce an ESX host unless I had to, but in this case, this > ESX hosts is (mostly) used by my private testing domain/subnet. So if > I bounced this one particular host, it would be no big deal. I would > just migrate any production VMs onto one of the other ESX hosts, and > go on from there. I'm lucky, in that I have that capability. > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the > intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not > read, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately > via e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake; then, delete this > e-mail from your system. > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
