I've had a few issues with the virtual hardware upgrade when it would leave behind a trace of the old network card, showing as a hidden device in Device Manager. Didn't cause many issues - except for on odd systems with static IP addresses, where the IP address was bound to the "hidden" NIC and the "new" one picked up an address from DHCP. You can imagine that there was then some confusion.
Either switch 'em to DHCP (some people don't mind this, some people stick rigidly to static addressing, it's all up to you) or remove the "hidden" device by the following steps *set devmgmt show_nonpresent_devices=1 open devmgmt.msc click on View | Show hidden devices remove the dimmed network adapter* This also happened with a few hard disks, but they didn't cause any issues that we noticed YMMV There is also the issue of having to wait while Windows detects the "new" hardware and then asks for a restart to initialize it. Depending on the size of your environment, this may or may not be a major PITA. We are fairly small so didn't worry too much about it. Also, don't forget to upgrade the virtual hardware on your templates (if you have any), or you may find yourself doing the hardware upgrade more than you expected! On 30 June 2010 17:36, Mike Leone <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/30/2010 12:08 PM, Garcia-Moran, Carlos had this to say: > > > The VM version in vSphere is 7, you do a right click on the VM and it's >> an menu option , it has different improved "hardware" IDE, SCSI, PCI >> Bridges etc... while you don't have to do it at one point you won't get >> 100% of the benefit of running in vSphere, I've yet to have an issue >> doing this as long as you do the tools 1st which contains the drivers >> for the new hardware >> > > Ah, I see. DUH. Yeah, I should have realized that. :-) > > Thanks > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
