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Monthly Archives: April 2010

New articles published for week ending 4/24/2010

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VMware Consolidated Backup
VMware Consolidated Backup fails to start after upgrading from 1.0.3 to 1.5 (1020218)
Date Published: 4/23/2010

VMware ESX
Cannot connect ESX host in vCenter Server after converting a vSphere license from Enterprise to Standard (1017843)
Date Published: 4/19/2010
Continuously resetting the FCOE (CNA) card leads to a degradation of storage path redundancy (1018255)
Date Published: 4/21/2010
Unable to deploy from a Windows 2008 R2 template (1018399)
Date Published: 4/23/2010
Setting the e1000 InterruptThrottlerate parameter to improve ESX 3.5 system stability (1020564)
Date Published: 4/20/2010

VMware ESXi
The Host Update Utility fails with error: The Type Initializer for ‘VIUApp.Vua.UpgradeAgent’ threw an exception (1016950)
Date Published: 4/23/2010
Installing ESXi Installable onto a USB drive or SD flash card (1020655)
Date Published: 4/22/2010

VMware vCenter CapacityIQ
CapacityIQ runs out of space and shuts down (1020738)
Date Published: 4/23/2010

VMware vCenter Converter
Converting a machine fails with the error: the destination does not support 64-bit guests (1020708)
Date Published: 4/22/2010

VMware vCenter Lab Manager
System Administrator role in Lab Manager cannot be edited (1014207)
Date Published: 4/22/2010
Licensing Lab Manager 4.0 (1019619)
Date Published: 4/19/2010
Permissions Required for VMware vCenter Lab Manager Service Account in VMware vCenter (1020414)
Date Published: 4/23/2010
Guest customization with Microsoft Windows 2008 Enterprise and R2 Forces Administrator to Change Password (1020428)
Date Published: 4/23/2010

VMware vCenter Server
Logging into vCenter Server 4.0 Update 1 with vSphere Client produces the error: Request failed due to ssl error (1016642)
Date Published: 4/23/2010
Troubleshooting and maintaining a vCenter Server database (1017343)
Date Published: 4/19/2010
Licensing an ESX 4.0 host fails with the error: The license key entered does not have enough capacity for this entity (1019695)
Date Published: 4/19/2010

VMware View Manager
New provisioned VMs losing network connectivity (1014540)
Date Published: 4/21/2010

VMware VirtualCenter
SVMotion causes errors on the RCLI but completes successfully (1006077)
Date Published: 4/21/2010

VMware vSphere Web Access
vCenter Server Service Status plug-in cannot be enabled (1013472)
Date Published: 4/21/2010

New articles published for week ending 4/17/2010

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VMware ESX
Storage VMotion of independent disks leaves behind DMotion delta files (1005994)
Date Published: 4/12/2010
Error when when clicking the Hardware Status tab on an ESX host in maintenance mode (1011284)
Date Published: 4/12/2010
ESX host console message: Significant imbalance between NUMA nodes detected (1018754)
Date Published: 4/16/2010
Build number for VEM400-201002001 and VEM400-201002011 listed incorrectly (1020371)
Date Published: 4/14/2010
Memory hot-add fails if the assigned virtual machine memory equals the size of its memory reservation (1020430)
Date Published: 4/16/2010
OpManager Network Monitoring Software 7 cannot connect to snmpd on ESX host (1007926)
Date Published: 4/14/2010
Data corruption on Window Storage Server based NAS products (1018453)
Date Published: 4/14/2010
Virtual machines fail to start with the error: Insufficient resources (1019442)
Date Published: 4/16/2010

VMware vCenter Lab Manager
Unable to Upgrade from VMware vCenter Lab Manager 4.0 to 4.0.1 (1020528)
Date Published: 4/16/2010

VMware vCenter Server
Looking up Managed Object Reference (MoRef) in vCenter Server (1017126)
Date Published: 4/16/2010
vCenter Server experiences the repeated alarm: Agent can’t send heartbeats.msg size: 426, sendto() returned: Operation not permitted (1019548)
Date Published: 4/16/2010

VMware View Manager
View admin console doesn’t show the latest snapshot. (1017500)
Date Published: 4/12/2010

VMware VirtualCenter
vSphere Client options are disabled for users with full administrative rights to vCenter Server (1019457)
Date Published: 4/16/2010

New articles published for week ending 4/10/2010

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VMware ESX
Hostd does not start after upgrading to ESX 4.0 or ESX 4.0 Update 1 (1016010)
Date Published: 4/9/2010
Missing LUNS after upgrading to ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 5 or ESX/ESXi 4.x (1017469)
Date Published: 4/7/2010
Install PowerPath/VE for VMware vSphere by using vCenter Update Manager and UMDS (1019844)
Date Published: 4/9/2010
Understanding Exception 14 and Exception 13 purple diagnostic screens (1020181)
Date Published: 4/8/2010
Understanding a purple diagnostic screen that reports: Failed to ack TLB invalidate (1020214)
Date Published: 4/8/2010
After upgrading to vSphere 4.0 Update1, virtual machines fail to power on with an error “Insufficient resources, No COS swap configured” (1016297)
Date Published: 4/6/2010
When a VM with thin disk has a snapshot, the redo log is incorrectly created as thick disk (1020137)
Date Published: 4/8/2010
HaltingIdleMsecPenalty Parameter: Guidance for Modifying vSphere’s Fairness/Throughput Balance (1020233)
Date Published: 4/10/2010

VMware ESXi
NIC configuration reverts from full duplex to half duplex when the host is rebooted (1019836)
Date Published: 4/6/2010
Guide to configure NTP on ESX servers (1003063)
Date Published: 4/6/2010

VMware Fusion
Working with power options in VMware Fusion (1018242)
Date Published: 4/5/2010

VMware vCenter Lab Manager
Deploying a virtual machine in Lab Manager fails with the error: Failed to log into NFC server (1015652)
Date Published: 4/5/2010

VMware vCenter Server
vCenter Server 4.0 Update 1 for download is build 208156 but when installed is 208111 (1017248)
Date Published: 4/9/2010
Testing a VMware Fault Tolerance Configuration (1020058)
Date Published: 4/5/2010

VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
Running vCenter Server Heartbeat in a MSCS Cluster (1014414)
Date Published: 4/7/2010

VMware View Manager
View Client 4.0.1 fails to connect to desktop with the error: Connect desktop failed (1019742)
Date Published: 4/9/2010
Do not give the Administrator user name access to View Administrator (1020011)
Date Published: 4/6/2010
A USB flash drive might become unresponsive after you disconnect View Client for Linux (1019986)
Date Published: 4/6/2010

New articles published for week ending 4/3/2010

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VMware Consolidated Backup
Windows error when browsing mounted virtual disks from the VMware Consolidated Backup proxy (1005775)
Date Published: 3/31/2010
VMware Consolidated Backup file-level backup fails to release snapshots after job completion (1005845)
Date Published: 4/1/2010
VMware Converter
Passing the OVF descriptor is unable to pass XML element envelope (1019857)
Date Published: 3/29/2010
VMware ESX
Masking LUNs fails to mask the last path (1005596)
Date Published: 4/1/2010
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201003406-BG: Updates megaraid-sas driver (1011559)
Date Published: 4/1/2010
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201003407-BG: Updates ehci-ehci-hcd driver (1013176)
Date Published: 4/1/2010
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-201003401-BG: Updates VMkernel, Tools, Hostd, VMX, VMnix (1017457)
Date Published: 3/30/2010
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-201003402-BG: Updates SCSI driver for Qlogic Fibre Channel HBA (1017464)
Date Published: 3/30/2010
VMware ESXi 3.5, Patch ESXe350-201003401-I-BG: Updates firmware (1017683)
Date Published: 3/30/2010
Windows NT may not recognize NIC after upgrading to ESX 4.x (1017903)
Date Published: 3/30/2010
VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-201003403-SG: Updates VMware-webCenter-esx (1018702)
Date Published: 3/30/2010
VMware ESXi 3.5, Patch ESXe350-201003402-T-BG: Updates VMware Tools (1018703)
Date Published: 3/30/2010
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201003401-BG: Updates vmkernel64,vmx, hostd, and scripts (1019492)
Date Published: 4/1/2010
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201003402-BG: Updates hpsa driver (1019493)
Date Published: 4/1/2010
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201003403-SG: Updates acpid (1019494)
Date Published: 4/1/2010
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201003404-BG: Updates lpfc820 driver (1019495)
Date Published: 4/1/2010
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201003405-SG: Updates samba-client and samba-common (1019496)
Date Published: 4/1/2010
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch Release ESX400-201003001 (1019833)
Date Published: 4/1/2010
Understanding an ASSERT or NOT_IMPLEMENTED purple diagnostic screen (1019956)
Date Published: 3/30/2010
High rate of Fault Tolerance failovers on Intel Xeon Processor 3400, 6500, and 7500 series (1017520)
Date Published: 3/31/2010
Disabling Fault Tolerance compliance checks on a cluster (1017714)
Date Published: 3/30/2010
VMware ESXi
VMware ESXi 4.0, Patch ESXi400-201003401-BG: Updates Firmware (1019497)
Date Published: 4/1/2010
"Media capacity 899808 sectors appears invalid" error message is shown on the ESX console (1019694)
Date Published: 3/29/2010
VMware ESXi 4.0, Patch Release ESXi400-201003001 (1019834)
Date Published: 4/1/2010
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
Conversion fails with the error: Converter unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume (1019690)
Date Published: 3/30/2010
VMware vCenter Lab Manager
Predefined Lab Manager user roles and rights (1014148)
Date Published: 3/30/2010
Lab Manager reports Hosts and Resource Pools as disconnected or not available (1019570)
Date Published: 3/29/2010
Importing template into Lab Manager fails with the parameter log error: Value cannot be null (1019791)
Date Published: 3/30/2010
VMware vCenter Server
Virtual machines with customizations fail to deploy when using Custom SSL Certificates (1019893)
Date Published: 3/29/2010
VMware vCenter Update Manager
Update Manager fails to scan an ESX 4.0 host with an unknown error (1017377)
Date Published: 3/29/2010
Configure an Apache or an IIS Web server as a patch source for vCenter Update Manager (1019288)
Date Published: 3/31/2010
VMware View Manager
Domain administrators have full access to View Administrator (1019959)
Date Published: 3/29/2010
RDP hides the Safely Remove Hardware icon from remote users who are not administrators (1019798)
Date Published: 3/29/2010
VMware Workstation
VMware Workstation’s clone feature only produces thin disk output (1017514)
Date Published: 4/1/2010