Unable to Mount ISOs to VMs after vSphere 4.1 Upgrade

July 26 2010 by psebastian in ESXi, vCenter, Virtualization, VMware |2 Comments

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 [...]

How to Perform a vCenter 4.0 to 4.1 Upgrade

July 14 2010 by psebastian in vCenter, Virtualization, VMware |1 Comment

One of the biggest hurdles you may have to overcome in the upgrade of vCenter to the latest 4.1 platform is the fact that 32bit is no longer an OS option.  With Microsoft abandoning 32bit OS support with the latest Server 2008 R2 offering it should be no surprise that vendors supplying software for Microsoft [...]

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