I was dazzled when I recently saw the following warning message ahile using the vSphere Client:

1Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed

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VMware released a new version of the famous ESXi Hypervisor one month ago.

This tops VMware's portfolio off after the products Fusion, Player and Workstation already were updated in september.

Some technichal enhancements of the new version:

• dropped 32 GB host memory limitation - (a minimum of 4 GB memory is required …

While creating a VMFS storage I received the following error yesterday:

1Call "HostDatastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreCreateOptions" for object "ha-datastoresystem" on ESXi "xxx.xxx.xxx.xx" failed.

First I thought the freshly created logical drive on my HP RAID contorller had a failure - but this …

Every VMware administration knows the following issue - the cluster needs to patched and so the particular nodes need to be rebooted. Fortunately this doesn't bother the users working on the farm becuase the virtual machines can be moved "online" between the cluster nodes.

There might be a little show stopper …