Add CPU or RAM to a VM while it is powered on
It is possible to add CPU and memory to a virtual machine while it is powered on. This is not enabled by default but if you edit the settings of a VM you can enable Memory Hot Add and CPU…
What is the difference between High Availability and Fault Tolerance?
The table below describes the main differences between High Availability (HA) and Fault Tolerance (FT) in VMware. The key difference is that FT eliminates downtime whereas HA does not. High Availability Fault Tolerance Monitors heartbeat information provided by the…
VMware Tools logging Event ID 1000 warnings after upgrade to 5.1
Some of our ESX clusters have recently been upgraded to 5.1, and since doing so we have seen the following error logged every second in the Application Event Log on the guest servers while a user is logged on: Source:…