Ah well, bit of a waste realy. The firmware took an age to load because of a hardware problem. That was fixed and the firmware was, eventualy, upgraded. The newly patched VM hosts started up fine but then the VMs wouldn't :-( I restored the hosts to their pre-patched state and the VMs (apart from one) came up OK. Buggered if I am going to start patching again now and run into the situation where we have not got the servers up by start of business tomorow! Yes - we do work back holidays.

One good thing - The holiday can start now:-) Well, after I have mailed the team. Hello, bottle of Spanish Rose, here I come...

MP