Hi.
I recently had to rebuild one of my two esx hosts due to a drive failure. I was able to restore the machines from the failed host to the other esx machine while I swapped out a backplane and rebuilt the failed esx host. When I rebuilt the failed host I installed esx 4.1. I now have an environment running esx 4.0 and 4.1 hosts.
Since the rebuild relocating virtual machines from one host to the other takes a long time. Moving a 40 GB vm takes 12 hours. It used to take 2. Sometimes the relocate virtual machine task fails. Does anyone know if both hosts need to be running the same esx version? Any other ideas about what could be causing the speed problems I am having?
Thanks.