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Unable to install ESX400-201002401 or ESX400-200912401

April 29th, 2010 Eric No comments

Update Manager 4.0 Update 1 was refusing to install either of these two patches. At first I was confused because I did not have Nexus deployed, but this was looking similar to the problem that Update 1 was supposed to fix.

I downloaded the bundle from VMware’s web site and tried to install the patch manually and got this error:

The following problems were encountered trying to resolve dependencies:
   cross_emulex-cim-provider_400.2.0.27.1-164009 provides 'emulex-cim-provider
   >= 400.2.0.27.1' (required by rpm_vmware-esx-cim_4.0.0-1.11.236512@i386), but
   is obsoleted by the host

The culprit is the HBAnywhere installation I loaded for HBA firmware management. I uninstalled HBAnywhere and the patches worked just fine.

$ sudo rpm -qa | grep elx
elxvmwarecorekit-esx40-4.0a44-1
$ sudo rpm -e elxvmwarecorekit-esx40-4.0a44-1

I originally had to follow this Emulex KB article to get the application installed.

I went to Emulex’s web site to find a HBAnywhere update package for ESX 4 U1 and now I can not find a download for the original version let alone an updated one. The firmware update manual still lists HBAnywhere as a utility for VMware though.

If anyone knows of an updated package or another way to do firmware updates online I would appreciate letting me know in the comments.

UPDATE 5/6/2010
The current version of HBAnywhere resolves this issue. Here are the newest downloads for VMware.

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List VMs with Non Thick Disks

April 29th, 2010 Eric No comments 
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foreach ($vm in Get-VM)
{
    $badFormat = $false
    foreach ($hardDisk in (Get-HardDisk -VM $vm))
    {   
        if ($hardDisk.StorageFormat -ne "Thick")
        {
            $badFormat = $true
        }   
    }
 
    if ($badFormat)
    {
        $vm.Name
    }
}
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