So it looks like I was able to get the PoC running again, however, I am running low and space. So I ended up removing old VMs and templates that were no longer needed. However, I was still really low on space even with VAAI enabled. Turns out that I have some templates that were in wrong datastore, I’ve vMotioned them off to the SAS datastore. I hope that frees up enough space.

UPDATE:

VM on the the on other datastore would not boot up because of a missing vmx file. All I had were the flat.vmdk files. So what I tried first was to create a new VM with the same exact specs to recreate a vmx file. That was not possible because of the missing disk descriptor(vmdk). So I had to create the descriptor based off of the flat file(the VM Contents). Pretty much followed this KB:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1002511

After that, I re-created the VMX file as described in this KB

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1002294

Now I just have some missing PCI devices, which is probably the nVidia K2 card that needs to be re-added to the VM.

Fun Stuff!

Had to upgrade SQL Server Express 2008 to R2 because of the 10GB limitation on SQLEE. Upgrading seemed easier than I expected, from what I read all I need to do is select maintenance during setup and select upgrade. SQL Server Express had to be upgraded my vCenter that was being used for a VDI PoC.

UPDATE:

upgrade went far smoother than expected. Upgraded the SQL instance, restarted Agent and SQL Service. DONE.

vCenter started up fine with no problems.

I love easy solutions.

now i can finally move forward with the VDI PoC.