VMware vSphere with Kubernetes Design
If you want to use VMware vSphere with Kubernetes, you have to buy this as VMware Cloud Foundation and as a minimum standard edition. The reason VMware vSphere with Kubernetes at the moment is only available a VMware Cloud Foundation is that there is a requirement for NSX-T licenses also, so the argument is that,…
vCenter 7.0 Update 0a Released
VMware has released vCenter 7.0 Update 0a, and this also includes an update to vSphere with Kubernetes. vCenter 7.0 Update 0a This fixes a problem with a conflict between Lifecycle Manager, and vSAN File Services. See the release notes here. vSphere with Kubernetes New Features Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service for vSphere: rolling upgrade and services…
Veeam Released Management Pack 8.0 Update 6 cumulative patch
Veeam has released a cumulative patch for Managment Pack 8.0 Update 6, that makes it compatible with vSphere 7.0 and also fixes some problems. What’s new/fixed: Support for VMware vSphere 7.0 APIs. A fix for the issue with relation data being collected incompletely from virtual switches in environments running VMware vSphere 6.x and earlier versions. A fix…
vCenter Appliance 6.5 upgrade to 6.7 Error
I was upgrading a vCenter today, that was running on a Standalone ESXi host, that was using the free Hypervisor license. I always uses the CLI and JSON file for upgrading vCenter servers, since it’s easy to run the upgrade multiple times, without going thru the GUI. Bu when i did at this customer, I…
RVTools 4.0.4 released
Rob de Veij has released a new version of one of my favorit tools for VMware vSphere. Thanks to Rob for this great tool. What’s new: Upgraded RVTools solution to use VMware vSphere Management SDK 7.0 Upgraded RVTools solution to use CIS REST API, available since vSphere 6.5, to get tag information vInfo tab page…
VMware vCenter 6.7 Update 3g and ESXi 6.7 patch Released
VMware has released vCenter 6.7 Update 3g, and also a new patch for ESXi 6.7 Update 3 P02. vCenter 6.7 Update 3g What’s new: New alarms in vCenter Server: vCenter Server 6.7 Update 3g adds a Replication State Change alarm to the vCenter Server Appliance with an Embedded Platform Services Controller that displays when a replication state changes to…
Veeam Backup for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure Released
Veeam has released Backup for Microsoft Azure 1.0. See the Datasheet for this product here. See the release notes here.
VMware vRealize Suite 8.1 and more released
VMware has released vRealize Automation 8.1, vRealize Orchestrator 8.1, Operations 8.1,vRealize Log Insight 8.1, vRealize Network Insight 5.2, vRealize Lifecycle Configuration Manager 8.1, VMware Cloud Foundations 4.0 and VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center 6.0. The what’s new are not complete lists of new og enhanced features. vRealize Automation 8.1 What’s new: Support for…
Critical Security patch for vCenter 6.7
If you have upgraded your vCenter from earlier versions of vCenter, then you should patch your vCenter. This security bug is rated 10.0 out of 10.0. A malicious actor with network access to an affected vmdir deployment may be able to extract highly sensitive information which could be used to compromise vCenter Server or other…
VMware NSX-T 3.0 Released
VMware has released NSX-T 3.0 and also a new NSX Intelligence 1.1. This version will support vSphere 7.0, and one of the new things is that it uses VDS 7 and instead of N-VDS, and there are alot more changes and new features. Some of the new things/changes are: Support Added support for Windows 2016…