VirtualCenter reinstall FTL...

[zebulebu]

I. Hate. Western. Digital.

Been sick as a dog all day and just come downstairs in the last 20 minutes... to find my poxy VC Server has **** the bed - HD is screwed. Less than ten months old as well. Western Bastard Digital - that's the last you'll see of me - after having no problems with them for years, I've now had three fail on me in the past eight months.

[wagnerk]

I understand how you feel, I will never buy another fujitsu HDD. A few years back we had a whole batch of them die on us, one after another...

-Ken

[jk2447]

Does anyone know how reliable the solid state drives are? Surely VERY reliable. . .?

[zebulebu]

Yay! Recovery console to the rescue!

(after replacing five files that is...)

Even better, I have my original receipt for the disk too, so I'll by RMAing that to Western Soditall tomorrow.

Now... time to migrate everything onto another disk methinks...

[JohnBradbury]

Installing VCenter takes an absolute age. I'm running the 60 days evaluation so I've installed two VCenter servers a couple of days apart. In theory I can take the primary back to the base build snapshot and reinstall whilst the secondary server looks after things. A few days later do the same with the secondary and in 60 days the whole process starts again.

Same situation with my ESX installs.