VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1.1 Released
VMware by Broadcom has released VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1.1, the major new is VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA, that offers a simpler way to manage On-Prem Generative AI solutions. This was announced at 2024 GTC AI Conference, and there after VMware by Broadcom posted a blog about this here. What’s new: See the full…
VMware VMs and USB Controller
The latest security patch for the VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion is for the USB Controller in the VM give access to the hypervisor (on ESXi it can only access the VMX Sandbox, not all of the ESXi host). https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2024-0006.html This is not the first time that the USB has a security bug,…
VMware vSphere 8.0 Update 2b Released
VMware by Broadcom has released vSphere 8.0 Update 2b, ESXi 8.0.2b, vCenter 8.0.2b, vSphere Replication 8.8.0.3 . This fixes the CBT bug and many other problems. I think this also introduces support for the new license model. There is nothing in the release notes about this. vCenter 8.0.2b What’s new: See the full release notes…
VMware vSphere 8 Update 2 Released (IA)
VMware has released ESXi 8 Update 2, vCenter 8 Update 2, vSAN 8 Update 2 and vSphere with Tanzu 8 “Update 2”. NOTE: Before upgrading, remember to check if your third support vSphere 8 Update 2, like backup/monitoring/automation/integration software/services. NOTE: On October 18th the release was changed to GA. ESXi 8 Update 2 What’s new:…
vSphere 8.0 Update 1 and More Released
VMware has released vCenter 8.0 Update, ESXi 8.0 Update 1, vSAN 8.0 Update 1, Replication 8.7 and vSphere with Tanzu 8.0. With this release VMware has changed the AI/GA Release model for vSphere, the vCenter is released as GA but ESXi is released as IA, for more information se this blog. vCenter 8.0 Update/ESXi 8.0…
VMware vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 Released (IA)
VMware has released VMware vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 as Initial Availability (IA). This also includes vSphere Replication 8.6, VMware Tanzu Kubernetes and vSphere with Tanzu 8.0. Initial Availability vSphere 8.0 delivers its Initial Availability (IA) release. The IA release is the first release of vSphere 8.0 and is available to all customers. Custom ISO…
Powered Off Storage Migration and Performance
If you are moving a powered off VM from one host to another, that cannot see the same storage, the copying of the data is send over the network. In version 7 and older this is done with the NFC protocol, but that is slow, so with vSphere 8 VMware has introduces a new protocol…
RVTools 4.3.1 Released
RVTools is one of my favorite tools I uses for troubleshooting, health checks. gathering information and more for my customers VMware vSphere environments. So a big thanks to Rob de Veij, for this amazing tool, that he made, is still putting new features into. here is a list of what’s new. since the last time…
ESXi Future Support for Boot on USB/SD-Card
VMware has not been very clear on the communication about, the support for booting ESXi on USB/SD-Card from the release of ESXi 7.0. In the original documentation, the requirement for installing/upgrading ESXi 7.0 it says that USB/SD-Card in support for boot media: “ESXi 7.0 requires a boot disk of at least 32 GB of persistent storage such…