I apologise in advance if this doesn't make much sense to you. It took me a while to unravel what was wrong and I still don't know why. Update 5 was being applied to a 3.5 cluster and one of the hosts was being placed into maintenance mode. Most of the VMs were migrated to other hosts but one failed part way through and was powered off. At first I thought that one of the two hosts had a grumpy moment but the VM then refused to power on again and the following message was shown: Ooops. I had…
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Storage vMotion was introduced with ESX 3.5 about a year ago but for various reasons I've never had the opportunity or need to use it until now. The project that required its use has been knocking around for a few months now. It started as a single ESX server that was to be used to build a small number of VMs for use by my customer as an HR system. Three months or so after putting in that first host I was finally called back to add another and setup VirtualCenter. Installing ESX, VC and doing all of the…