Missing the ESXi root password
I just had a support case, with customer that did not know the root password of there ESXi host because they are managed by a service provider and i needed access to one of them for some troubleshooting. My good colleague Christian Møller has blogged about how to reset the root password in this blog,…
RVTools 4.1.2 Released
Rob de Veij has just released a new version of one of my favorit tools, I uses all the time, a big thanks to Rob for this fantastic tools, for collecting a lot of information from vCenter or from a single ESXi host. What’s new: RVTools msi is now signed with a Sectigo certificate Log4net…
VMware Horizon Version 2103 Released
VMware has released Horizon 2103, that contains Horizon View, Horizon Client, Unified AccessGateway, Dynamic Environment Manager og App Volume 4. Horizon View 2103 See the release notes here. Horizon Client 2103 See the release notes for Windows Client here. See the release notes for Mac Client here. See the release notes for Linux Client here.…
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 and more Released
VMware has released vCenter 7.0 update 2, ESXi 7.0 update 2 and vSphere replication 8.4.0. This release introduces some interesting new feature, linke vSphere native Key Provider, optimization for AMD EPYC CPUs and much more, see the VMware blog about the release here. For vSAN there is now HCI Mesh compute clusters do not need…
Elasticsearch Fails to Start after vIDM Upgrade
I have just been doing a upgrade of VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) 3.3.3 to 3.3.4 from the vRealize Suite Life Cycle Manager (vRSLCM) 8.3. After the upgrade the vIDM appliance from vRSLCM it failed after a long wait, looking at the vIDM machine i could see that the Elasticsearch service did not run. After reverting…
VMware vRA 8.3 and Multi Value Picker
I had a customer, asking me how to get the multi Value Picker working i vRA, I am using a new feature in version 8.3, so this will not work in earlier versions. The use case for this was to add multiple uses to at AD Domain Group, and filter the uses, so i only…
VUM plug-in missing i vSphere UI
Just had a vCenter 6.7 Update 3i, where I did not see the VUM plug-in. there was no information in the logs, or any other places, the only thing was that en vSphere-UI Client toke a long time to start, and it toke a long time to login to it. I could see that there…
vLCM error 404 after upgrading to vCenter 7.0.1d
I have just upgrade a vCenter from 6.7 to 7.0.1d, and when i went into the “Lifecycle manager” in the vCenter client, i got this error Status 404 – https://x.x.x.x/ui/vum-ui/rest/vcenters/5a8040e2-5dca-454a-87f4-303c3cb2f9b1/compliance This is just a browser cache problem after using the browser in incognito/privatebrowsing, i did not get this error, and a restart of the browser cleared…
VMware vExpert 2021
I’m proved to be awarded the VMware vExpert award 2021, this i my 7th year in a row, and congratulation to all other new and return vExpert 2021 ward winners.
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.2 Released
VMware has released Cloud Foundation 4.2. This version contains vRealize Suite to 8.2, NSX-T to 3.1, and updates to other things like vCenter/ESXi/….. What’s new: vSAN HCI Mesh Support: VMware Cloud Foundation supports HCI Mesh on VSAN clusters. This capability allows you to utilize storage from remote vSAN clusters in a local vSAN cluster. NSX-T Federation…