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biekee
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ESX 3.5 Update 3 has killed my Service Console

Hi gents (sorry ladies),

Specs: HP blades BL25, 8 GB Memory, iscsi SAN on EVA 5000

Since I upgraded my environment with Update 3 all my VM Consoles freeze on me.

It is slowwwwwwwwwwwwwww and doesn't update more often than every 10 minutes or so.

And when I finally have entered the Console (this happens 3 ways: When I enter the Console through VC, through Direct to ESX Console and through Seperate Console) the screen turns black!!

This clearly drives me nuts! I already raised the SC memory from 272 to 544 MB. I rebooted all the servers after this change.

Anyone seen the same behaviour and know a solution to this problem?

bk

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Lightbulb
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Try adding the following line to your /etc/vmware/config file (No service restarts needed)

vmauthd.server.alwaysProxy=TRUE

See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/749640

biekee
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Bubbly,

That is really a nice work-around, thanks!

I will give you half the points (sorry), because it is a workaround (I guess).

Is there no update available, which cures it fundamentally?

bk

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