vCenter and Skyline Health Problem
If you enable CEIP on a vCenter, there will for the “some” installation come a alert that the UDP heartbeat not working. I have seen this in multiple installations, and do not see any disconnects, or any other problems. I have check driver/firmware for compatibility, NICs in en ESXi hosts port for packets drop/errors, the…
Creating af Link for VMRC to a VM
Had a customer that needed the abillity to create a link/URL to connect the VMware Remote Console (VMRC), that he could send to a admin for for troubleshooting, without the use having access to the vCenter. This can be done thru the API or PowerCLI. The script is inspired by a script made by LucD.…
VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.1.0 Released and more
VMware has released NSX-T Data Center 3.1.0 and NSX Intelligence 1.2.0. NSX-T Data Center 3.1.0 What’s new: NSX-T Data Center 3.1 provides a variety of new features to offer new functionalities for virtualized networking and security for private, public, and multi-clouds. Highlights include new features and enhancements in the following focus areas: Cloud-scale Networking: Federation…
VMware vRealize Network Insight 6.0 Released
VMware has released vRealize Network Insight 6.0. What’s new: Network Assurance and Verification Distributed Firewall and Edge Firewall support for NSX-T Reachability Intent Path Search using IP addresses Enhancements to Network Map scale and improved Summary Panel Support for additional data sources, which includes Cisco UCS, ASA, and Juniper QFX VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud Display…
VMware PowerCLI 12.1 released
VMware has released PowerCLI 12.1. This version introduces new capabilities for VMC and vLCM. there are also other enhancement and new features. See the release notes here. See the VMware PowerCLI blog abount the new capabilities for VMC here. See the VMware PowerCLI blot about the vLCM enhancements here.
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.1.0 Released
VMware has released Cloud Foundation 4.1.0. Note: the BOM does not have the vRealize Suite 8.2 in this version, What’s new: vVols as Principal Storage in Workload Domains: VMware Cloud Foundation now supports vVols as principal storage, providing a common storage management framework for external storage and automation for pre-defined storage, including volume management and…
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 1 Released
VMware has released vCenter 7.0 Update 1 and ESXi 7.0 Update 1. VMware vCenter 7.0 Update 1 What’s new: Inclusive terminology: In vCenter Server 7.0 Update 1, as part of a company-wide effort to remove instances of non-inclusive language in our products, the vSphere team has made changes to some of the terms used in the vSphere Client. APIs and CLIs…
VMware vRealize Suite 8.2 Released
VMware has released vRealize Automation 8.2, vRealize Orchestrator 8.2, vRealize Operations Manager 8.2, vRealize Log insight 8.1 and vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.2. vRealize Automation 8.2 What’s new: vRealize Automation Blueprint name change to VMware Cloud Templates Blueprints are renamed to VMware Cloud Templates. Learn more. You might still see the term Blueprint in the…
VMware VCF 4.0.1.1 on VxRail Upgrade Failure
I was upgrading our VCF on VxRail to 4.0.1.1 with my colleague Anders Jacobsen. When Running the upgrade, the first elements, the SDDC Manager and vCenter update went fine, but when we came to the VxRail manager, that needed op upgraded to version 7.0.010-26590399, it failed with a strange error. Error: Unexpected failure during upgrade,…
VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.0.2 Released
VMware has released NSX-T Data Center 3.0.2, this bug fixes, and some new features, What’s new: Federation enhancement Global Manager auto deployment Onboarding NSX Local Manager objects to Global Manager Layer 4 DFW for Oracle Enterprise Linux Physical Servers API support to upgrade N-VDS to VDS Basic constraint check for end-entity certificate according to RFC…