Forum Posts of the Week
Here’s a cluster of the choicest threads of the last week. Admittedly, most of them are question from students, posted on the Forum on their behalf. So some are largely of acedemic interest whereas others are more telling.
Does VMware support Microsoft Clustering on Service Pack 1 of W2K3?
The short answer is no. The ball is in M$ court to “fix” this. But many forum members say it works reliably (well, as reliably as MSCS is!) but there’s no “offical stamp of approval. Apparently, people have been waiting and waiting…
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=59684
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2021
http://www.vmware.com/community/message.jspa?messageID=488350
An Old favorite, ESX disk alignment
Does ESX 3.x suffer from disk alignment issues? Does disk alignment effect VM’s using RDM’s to store data? Is this an non-issue or something to worry about? It’s all here in this handy thread
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=54419
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=59509
“VMotion: A general system error occured: Time out waiting for migration data”
This week I had this problem in my class. My students ended up doing a reboot of the ESX server that was affected. Not something I recommended, as I try to aviod reboots at all costs. I think the problem is with a fault in the NIC driver or in the physical media. The operative word is “time out” which must infer a network problem – as VMotion is essentially a network event. Anyway, I hit the forums looking for people who had similiar and this is what I found:
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=502178
Disabling “web-access” on the ESX 3.x server
Interesting question which at first I misunderstood. My student doesn’t just want to stop the “Web-Access” service (the kinda of end-user, no need for the VI client front-end) but ALSO any web-activity (even the welcome page that gets you the link to web-access but also a link to download the VI client and so forth)
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