Here some links to find version information about VMware vSphere products http://vsphere-land.com/vinfo/release-build-info and about VMware Tools versions http://packages.vmware.com/tools/versions
How long can an ESXi host run?
Before starting an upgrade at a customer site I was surprised how long an ESXi host can run. Here the proof.
Upgrade VMware vCenter Appliance 5.1 to 5.5
A lot of my customers are running the vCenter Appliance version 5.1. Now they start to ask to upgrade this appliance to the newest version. […]
Remove leftovers of a vCenter plugin
During an upgrade at a customer site we removed a Dell Appliance that was connected to vCenter. We dit remove the aplliance just by powering […]
Upgrade ESXi 5.0 to 5.1 via VMware Update Manager : incompatible
Today I am at customer site to upgrade en vSphere environment to the latest and greatest version of VMware vSphere 5.1. We started the migration […]
Unable to expand VMFS partition
Today I was asked to expand a local datastore of a ESXi 4.1. Expanding a disk is normally no problem when you are able to […]
VSS issues when doing backups using VMware VDR
Hi, During some consultancy projects @ SMB customers where we needed to install and configure VMware VDR to do some backups, we had some issues […]
vCenter VPXD service stopped few second after start
In my home lab I have a setup with has 1 VC VM and 2 ESXi hosts (Dell PowerEdge T410) which are connected to a […]