Comments on: vSphere 4 Update 1 Released

By: AC

AC — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:08:00 +0000

It bothers you that they keep increasing the maximum amount of VMs you can have on a host? It bothers me that they can increase that one, but can’t increase the max of 40 when using an HA cluster with 9 or most hosts. This screams like a false limitation to make us buy more servers. Does anyone know why this limitation still exists? I mean, what’s up with the HA algorithm that it drops so drastically when you add that 9th host? Without seeing that info, it is hard to believe it isn’t an artificial limit….

By: jason

jason — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:25:33 +0000

@Dan – It was the first thing that popped in my head when I was thinking about the increase in vCPU to core density.

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vSphere 4 Update 1 Released | Expert Data Labs Blog — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:59 +0000

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By: cloudgreen

cloudgreen — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:54:53 +0000

Do I need to install prior patches before running Update 1?

By: Leif Hvidsten

Leif Hvidsten — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:53:33 +0000

Since I was out yesterday, I was a little surprised to see an email from our vCenter listing 41 patches were downloaded early this morning. It appears only 1 of them is critical for ESX and 4 critical for ESXi.
I was hoping vCenter Server would support WS2008 R2 with this update. It appears it doesn’t. I also noticed that WS2008 SP2 is now officially supported and wasn’t before. I guess I presumed it was supported before.

By: Vladan

Vladan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:35:36 +0000

Jason,
especially the support for boot drives with pvSCSI driver is great, since this should boost the performances quite a bit….-:)

By: Dan Willis

Dan Willis — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:34:28 +0000

What’s with the BTTF reference? I.. don’t get it!

By: mastrboy

mastrboy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:32:18 +0000

I think more people wanted mysql support than DB2, i am at least one of them.

And the CTRL-ALT-DEL is a default redhat config, and easy to fix:

perl -p -i.old -e “s/ca:12345:ctrlaltdel/#ca:12345:ctrlaltdel/g” /etc/inittab
init q

By: Techstarts

Techstarts — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:14:19 +0000

These changes are going to affect maximum configuration PDF. Does this impact vcp4.0 exam? Probably a question for forum but in case you know in advance.
Thank you

By: Forbes Guthrie

Forbes Guthrie — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:10:33 +0000

“DB2 database back end support (Who requested this? Sound off, I’d like to hear your comments)”

Yeah, I would have thought MySQL and PostgreSQL support would have been more useful.