Where to find VMware version information
Here some links to find version information about VMware vSphere products
http://vsphere-land.com/vinfo/release-build-info
and about VMware 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.
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 increate the size of the disk. After increasing the disk size you should be able to increate the partition size.
The ESXi was managed by a vCenter 5.0. On the storage adapter I did a RESCAN data stores after the disk size was increased. Then I went into the DATASTORE properties and I saw following
This above view was via a vCenter connection. Then I found following VMware KB which told me to make a direct connection to the ESXi host. After going to into the datastore properties I found out that I could increase.
When I selected this local datastore and finished the expansion I saw following result in the vSphere Client direct to the ESXi and via vCenter.
Lucky for the customer this expansion went OK.
Hopefully if you have this problem this KB article fixes also your problem.
Success
Gert Van Gorp
Unable to remove VMware ESXi host in VMware vCenter
During a migration process from ESX to ESXi at a customer site we had a problem removing a server from the vCenter inventory.
We checked the permissions on this server and we saw that the user who wanted to remove the server was admin on datacenter level. Here the screen we got.
Knowing there is a PowerCLI command to remove a ESXi host from the vCenter, we walked that way with success.
I used this
PowerCLI script to remove this server from the inventory after moving the
server out of the cluster to the datacenter level.
Connect-VIServer vCenterServer
Remove-VMHost “HostThatCannotBeRemovedViaGui” –confirm:$false
Disconnect-VIServer –confirm:$false