Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Cannot log into VI client- "The server could not interpret the communication from the client. (The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable)".

Here's a good one. I created a 2 ESX Server "Sandbox environment" for my lab testing with 1 Windows 2008 VM providing DNS to the test servers. The idea was to use the 2 ESX servers with a Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN to test replication and failover from the prodcution tot the DR site of the Windows 2008 server. I ran into some trouble when I rebooted the ESX severs I could not log back in to either of the ESX servers with the VI client. I came accross this article below which helped me out tremendously and put an end to this madness. I know that normally this would not be a problem since a DNS server would be up and running at both the production and DR sites however, in my sanbox this was not the case. I changed the Windows 2008 VM to automatically startup with the ESX host so that I would have a DSN server available to the ESX servers.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1012942

Anyway...The moral of the short story is to make sure your DNS server is up and running before you try to login to the ESX servers otherwise you could be waiting a while to login to the VI client.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

VMware Introduces Enhanced Virtualization Offerings for Small and Midsize Businesses

On July 13th, 2010 VMware introduced VSphere 4.1 with supposedly over 150 new features.
Read the news here http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vsphere-4-1.html

Great news for SMB's VMotion in now available for Essentials Plus!
Read the news here http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vsphere-4-1-smb.html