I am not manually updating 700 guest systems. I'd get carpal. I found a script which as written does not work for us but am modifying pieces out of it to work for us.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Don Ely <[email protected]> wrote: > Manually... was a bit nervious given a complete version change... > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Did you script the hw upgrade or manually do it? >> >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Don Ely <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I did my upgrade a couple of weeks ago... It was pretty flawless... >> > A >> > couple VM's lost their original NIC which in turn created some issues, >> > but >> > not too bad otherwise... >> > >> > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> 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/> ~ >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> ~ 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/> ~
