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…
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 3 Released
VMware has released vCenter 7.0 Update 3, including vSphere for Tanzu, ESXi 7.0 Update vSAN 7.0 Update 3 and Replication 8.5. Before updating/upgrading remember to check that VMware and 3. party product are supported. vCenter 7.0 Update 3 What’s new: vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation, and support for snapshots of PMem VMs: vSphere Memory Monitoring…
VMware Tools 11.3.5 Released
VMware has released VMware Tools 11.3.5, this version resolves a problem that has annoyed me for many years. If you du a upgrade/update of VMware Tools on a Windows machine, and it has a pending reboot, it will fail and the VMware Tools will, be uninstalled, which is not good, the resolution may not be…
VMware ESX 7.0 Update 2c released
VMware has released ESXi 7.0 Update 2c (7.0.2c), this is a bug fixing version. This patch should fix the problem with boot from USB or SD-Card, where it after some time loses access to the boot device, and locks the host management, with a workaround could you in some cases vMotion the workloads to other…
vCSA /storage/log Running Full
I have been trouble shooting a problem with the /storage/log running full, for a customer. The problem was that the file /storage/log/vmware/vmware-sps/sps-runtime.log.stderr file was growing very large. I the log file I found the the vmware-sps (Storage Profile Service) had some problems. The errors looks like this May 31, 2021 7:18:02 AM org.bouncycastle.jsse.provider.ProvTlsClient notifyAlertRaised INFO:…