Hello VMware Admins,
This is my first post for an issue that have faced recently, after upgrading our VMware farm from VMware ESXi 4.1 to 5.1 in a HP DL 380P Gen 8 Hardware, most of the Virtual Machines were frequently getting Hung and also the VMware Tools were not running often.
First of all the VMVisior was not detecting the HP Hardware, then i have used HP customized ISO to build the OS and it went well.
After which i have updated all the VM's to H/W version 9 and also updated the VMtools..
But Many VM's are not responding and tools were not running.Then after some Googling and VMware Forums, i found its a bug in ESXi 5.1 and then i have updated the Patches and found 4 new patches missing and updated them as well...even after that the VM tools were frequently chaning to Not running state causing the VM's to get Hung.
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/432011 - Tried most of the Links from Communities, but no luck..
My Current ESXi Version After Patching : ESXi 5.1.0 , 914609 ( 20/12/2012) - HP Customized
Version While Building : ESXi 5.1.0, 799733 ( Oct 2012) - HP Customized.
Thanks in Advance,
Murali M