ESX 4 No Memory CPU Hotplug ??

[firewall68]

Hello Outthere,

i´m a New vsphere user installed everything on 4 HP G6 Server (Enterprice edition)

Works unbelievable. but i woundered because i have no Settings for Memory/CPU Hotplug under a created virtual machine (Windows 2003 R2)

i converted the machines with the converter.

i have 4 registered vSphere Enterprice servers and a registered vCenter Server 4 Standard.

did i forgot something ?:|

at my created windows 2008 server i have the feature :smileygrin:

whats going wrong ?:|

thanxs 4 helping a newbee

mike

firewall68

[Troy_Clavell]

there are some caveats to this.

Here's a couple articles discussing it

http://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2009/05/10/vsphere-memorycpu-hotplug-hot-add/

http://vmlover.blogspot.com/2009/05/hot-add-cpu-vsphere.html

[AntonVZhbankov]

Virtual Machine should be hardware version 7, and you need to enable Memory HotAdd in VM settings.

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[firewall68]

@ Anton.

all of my Machines are Hardware Version 7. Must be the Problem with the different Windows Server Versions Standard/Enterprice.

@all

I´m wondering. @every utube video, emc, hypervizor, etc. they show us the feature. nobody tells us that the feature is only enable @enterprice servers :smileyshocked:

maybe theres a patch some day and the hot feature will rock

thx 4 ure help

[AntonVZhbankov · Accepted solution]

VMware stated that HotAdd is available for Windows 2003 Enterprise only. And that's not VMware's limitation, it's Windows limitation.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/hotadd/hotaddmem.mspx

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