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alexzm

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Jan 27, 2009

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May 22, 2009 4:37 PM

HotPlug disk under ESXi 4

Tried ESXi 4.0 with a free license for a day and was disappointed to see that adding a disk to a VM guest, while it is running, now requires "hotplug" license.

This was never the case with ESXi 3. I could add/remove disks, while the virtual guest machine was running.

Looks like ESXi 4 lost some features in the process of upgrade, and now to add storage I need to shut down guest and restart.

This is a big inconvenience.

Will we see a limited hotplug functionality for free ESXi 4 to support storage management?

Thanks.

Tags: esxi_4_disk_hotplug, esxi_sphere_disk_hotplug, add_disks_esxi_4

AndreTheGiant

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1. May 22, 2009 11:10 PM

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Re: HotPlug disk under ESXi 4

Are you using VM with new hardware model, or VM with old hardware model?

Andre

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abeggled

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May 23, 2007

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2. May 23, 2009 1:46 AM

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Re: HotPlug disk under ESXi 4

alexzm schrieb:
This is a big inconvenience.

That's true it does'nt work either with HW4 or HW7X-(

Shame on you VMware, I do'nt want to spend a lot of $ to get the same functionality as I got free in past ...

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Rumple

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3. May 24, 2009 12:20 AM

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Re: HotPlug disk under ESXi 4

I can understand why they would want to have all the hotplug functionality put together under a single license, but I'm a bit flabergasted that they would enforce the hot adding of disk to a VM as now requiring a license.

Someone should be taken out to the whipping post for that bonehead move...

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DukeB0x

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4. May 25, 2009 3:54 AM

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Re: HotPlug disk under ESXi 4

/me 2 was supprised..

I'm even thinking about going back to esx3i since i realy liked the disk add/remove while turned on option,

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Steve Tron

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5. May 25, 2009 4:04 AM

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Re: HotPlug disk under ESXi 4

Hi,

It seems like VMware have made a few decisions like that with the release of vSphere. The one I like the best is the decision to have the advance software tier without DRS and then announce that the enterprise software tier will be available up until xmas after which only enterprise plus will be available (costs more than enterprise) if you want DRS. Do the extra feature of enterprise plus warrant the cost hmmm I guess we will see.