Notes on VirtualCenter Update 3 from Eric Siebert
On Friday, VMware released the latest version of VirtualCenter, Update 3 (no update 3 for ESX yet). Unlike Update 2 (which contained some great new features), this version is mainly focused on fixing bugs. VMware administrators may be a little leery of installing this update after the time-bomb debacle that occurred several months ago with Update 2, but there are a few fixes (including many for HA) outlined below that make it worth installing. ...
This one caused some issues with HA because of a network compliance check that was introduced in Update 2. A new HA advanced setting has been added to bypass this check. ...
This one has caused a few people who upgraded to Update 2 some grief — thankfully VMware has quickly addressed it. In HA-DRS cluster, the enter maintenance mode task stalls and VMs do not migrate ... In this release, the issue has been resolved by allowing the evacuations if HA admission control is disabled.
Thanks, Eric!
Posted by John Troyer on October 6, 2008 in VMware Infrastructure 3
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hi, i doesn't see the HA advanced setting Eric talks about in the VC. Can you explain ?
Posted by: RS_1 | October 07, 2008 at 08:13 AM
Hi RS_1, did you click through to his article and the release notes? Take a look there -- not sure what your specific question was, since there are a few changes to HA in update 3.
Posted by: John Troyer | October 07, 2008 at 08:25 AM
Did you hear about VMware FT? I just read a bit about it on http://www.virtualizationteam.com/virtualization-vmware/vmware-esx-40-ft-fault-tolerant-sneak-peek.html Would u think that would replace VMware HA? I had seen a video even of FT on that link. Is it available yet?
Posted by: andrewstaflin | December 17, 2008 at 06:38 AM