Some people are experiencing issues mounting ISO files to VMs after performing a vSphere 4.0 to 4.1 upgrade. Symptom includes receiving the error message “The remote device on VMNAME connected to PathToISOFile is disconnected.” after attempting to mount an ISO file from within the vSphere client. This issue appears to be a client incompatibility issue related [...]
I was rereading the What’s New documents from VMware on their release of 4.1 ESX/ESXi and noticed that they make a recommendation to migrate your servers to ESXi in the 4.1 upgrade process if you can and avoid trying the ESX 4.0 to 4.1 upgrade process. Why would they recommend such a sweeping change? Well [...]
Yesterday VMware released the next iteration of their cloud virtualization platform. If you are anything like me you are dying to get your old 4.0 ESXi systems updated pronto. This method of upgrade is going to focus on only this scenario: