vSphere Hypervisor Auto Start Bug Fixed - VMware vSphere Blog

Kyle Gleed posted July 12, 2012

Posted by Kyle Gleed, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, VMware

Good news! The Auto Start bug introduced with 5.0 Update 1, which broke the VM Auto Start feature on the free version of ESXi, has finally been resolved. VMware released the ESXi patch "ESXi500-201207001" on July 12, 2012 which includes the fix.

Installing the patch does require a reboot of the host so be sure to coordinate the downtime.

You can download the patch from here: http://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal

You can review the bulletins and image profiles included with the patch from here: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2019107

For help installing the patch check out this blog on ESXi Patches.

Happy Auto Starting 🙂

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About the Author

Kyle Gleed is a Group Manager within VMware’s Integrated Systems Business Unit (ISBU) where he leads a team focused on the adoption and deployment of the solutions and capabilities of the Software-Defined Data Center. Follow Kyle on twitter @Kyle_Gleed

Comments

7 Comments been added so far

Atif K
July 13th, 2012
Too strange it is not documented in release notes, or did i miss it? Anyway this fix is much appreciated.
- M.Schenker
  August 27th, 2012
  According to http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/07/vsphere-hypervisor-auto-start-bug-fixed.html we have updated a cluster to ESX 5.0.0 768111 , the update manager shows all patches and updates applied.
  Still I can’t choose any auto-start options in the Config section, all greyed out… what am I missing here?!
Kyle Gleed
July 13th, 2012
You didn’t miss anything. I don’t know why why they didn’t document it. Likely an oversight…
Juan
July 31st, 2012
Thank you.
The patch is not found in the patch portal.
grinfilll
August 18th, 2012
Интересно, прикольно, супер
Medardo
October 4th, 2012
In the bug fix notes, you will find reference to the fix:

•PR 853333: Virtual machines fail to autostart on ESXi 5.0 U1 host assigned with free Hypervisor license. The following message is logged in the hostd logs:

Throw vim.fault.RestrictedVersion
Dell Johnson
October 25th, 2014
Kyle,

I have customers with Cisco UCSC-C220-M3SBE servers that come licensed with 5.0 standard.

Can you send me the patch for the “auto-start” bug?

Thanks,
Dell

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