Once you update a VM to VMX-10, you can no longer edit the settings of the VM using the Windows vSphere client - you have to use the vCenter Web client. But what if your vCenter server needs more RAM? You have to shut it down to add RAM - but if you shut it down you can no longer use the web client. You can connect to the ESXi host using the vSphere client - but you get the same message if you try to edit the vCenter VM. It tells you that you have to use the vCenter web client (which is now unavailable since the vCenter server is down to add RAM!!!).
Is there a vSphere web client that works the same way the vSphere Windows client works? Namely, not require vCenter to work and you can use it to connect to the ESXi host directly?
Thanks,
NK
Several options actually:
VMware KB: Downgrading the virtual machine hardware version in ESX/ESXi
After talking to some of my co-workers, sounds like something that might need to be done with a PowerCLI script. Is that the correct solution?
NK
Several options actually:
VMware KB: Downgrading the virtual machine hardware version in ESX/ESXi
Thanks!
NK
One option was forgotten, if you are using the windows vCenter server then you enable hot add on the VM then you don't have to shut it down to add more RAM or CPU. That is the easiest in this situation.
Thanks - however this brings up a similar problem. In order to make this change, you have to shut down the VM. So if you have already upgraded to VMX-10, you would be in the same boat as trying to add RAM to the vCenter VM.
NK
I found this in a VMware KB article - seems easy enough:
To change the amount of allocated memory to a virtual machine, run the command:
Set-VM -VM VM_Name -MemoryMB 1024
Note: To set the size in gigabytes, use MemoryGB
NK
