ESXi 6 Update 2, PDL errors on VVOL PE device
I was upgrading a customer to vSphere 6.0 Update 2, The vCenter went fine. but when i came to upgrade the ESXi hosts they hags when it comes to the massage "About to install" at the Console When looking at the logger screen "ALT+F12" it looks like this: And in the vmkernel.log there was a lot of this:…
ESXi 6.0 and network performance issue
I have had a few customers that had a performance issue, when running in certain combination: ESXi 6.0 Windows 2012 / Windows 8 or later Virtual hardware 11 / Compatibility 6.0 or later VMXNET3 network card 1.6.6.0 (this is part of newer VMware Tools) or later There is VMware KB on this, that have a solution: https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2129176 I have used…
RVTools 3.8 is Released
One of m favorite tools for getting information about an vSphere environment is RVTools, is now released in version 3.8. Thanks to Rob de Veij for this great tool that's free of charge. What's new in version 3.8: VI SDK reference changed from 5.5 to 6.0 on vInfo tab page new field: ChangeVersion unique identifier for a given…
vSphere 6.0 Update 2 Released
ESXi 6.0 U2 New features: VMware host client – back to the good old web client from ESX version 1.x and 2.x, or maybe not this is a HTML5 Client. High Ethernet link speed – ESXi 6.0 U2 supports 25 G and 50 G ethernet link speeds VAIO Enhancements (vSphere API for I/O Filtering) –…
ESXi Embedded Host Client v6
VMware updated the ESXi Embedded Host Client Fling to version 6. The best news is that a version of the will be part of the upcoming ESXi 6.0 Update 2 release, see William Lam's blog post:http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2016/03/the-future-of-the-esxi-embedded-host-client.html He also stats that i will be accessible in the fre VMware Hypervisor version. Here is the change log for this version:…
ESXi Embedded Host Client v5
VMware updated the ESXi Embedded Host Client Fling to version 5. Here is the change log for this version: New Updates in 5.0 Host Improvements to performance monitoring UI, resize dragger, tooltip behavior VM Export VM support (basic) Experimental IT/ES keyboard support for in-browser console Fixed some major issues with storage controller manipulation (adding/removing controllers, assigning…
vSAN and HBA Driver support
Be aware of using the correct SCSI/SATA driver for vSAN supported controllers. In the vSAN health check you may see something like this: After checking the Compability list, I found that this controller supported the megaraid_sas. The megaraid_sas is what’s referred to as legacy driver, so you have do disable the native driver. See the KB for instruction: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2044993 Note:…
VMware Releases this Week
This Week VMware has released some new versions of there vSphere products. vSphere 6.0 Update 1b, this is mostly security, like disabling TLS1.0, and bug fixes: vCenter 6.0 Update 1b, see release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/60/vsphere-vcenter-server-60u1b-release-notes.html ESXi 6.0 Update 1b, see release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/60/vsphere-esxi-60u1b-release-notes.html Some of the Bug fixes: Virtual machine stops responding during snapshot consolidation on ESXi 6.0…
ESXi Embedded Host Client v4
VMware updated the ESXi Embedded Host Client Fling to version 4. Here is the change log for this version, and older: New Updates in 4.0 Host Ability to change host acceptance level Ability to edit lock down exception users Ability to edit system swap settings VM VM list has been optimized for performance, reducing data download…
ESXi 5.5 Update 3b and vCenter 5.5 Update 2 problem
Yesterday I was talking to a customer,that had a problem, after they had run a remediate on a ESXi 5.5 host, and it was upgraded/patched to 5.5 Update 3b, i could not reconnect to vCenter. The vCenter was running version 5.5 Update 2. The solution was to upgrade vCenter to 5.5 Update 3b. Update: The…