Hello everyone,
I finally dived in and decided to upgrade to 4.1. First I upgraded vCenter from 4.0 to 4.1 and it's running fine. Next I took an HP DL series server (which ran 4.0 before) and installed ESX 4.1 on it from scratch. The host seemed to install just fine and then I joined it to my vCenter server.
My trouble began when I added some guest VM's to this new 4.1 host; all the guest VM's become "inaccessible" the moment they're added to the new host's inventory. No reason was given to as why. I checked the NetApp's storage and all seems to be just ducky. After rebooting the host, restarting agents, heck even restarted the vCenter server, I still couldn't get a single VM to stay "accessible" after being added to this 4.1 host.
Last thing I tried was to run vConverter on a random VM. Lo and behold the newly converted VM can be successfully added to the new 4.1 host. I tried adding the original again and no dice...got the same problem.
So before I proceed with upgrading the rest of my hosts from 4.0 to 4.1, I'm just wondering is this normal? I mean the VM's are all version 7 so I don't get why running converter without changing any settings would suddenly let ESX 4.1 host accept the VM properly? Has anyone else encountered this or have any suggestions?
Thanks very much.
