VMware vSphere 7 Released and more
VMware has released vSphere 7.0, vSphere Replication 8.3, Remote Console 11.1.0 and PowerCLI 12.0. This mean that it bye bye to the Windows based vCenter External PSC, Flash/Flex web client and Linux style drivers. This is just an overview of some of the new features and enhancements. Before upgrading, please check compatibility/interoperability with other solutions.…
Disable/Enable VM Methods on Virtual Appliances in vCenter
Most appliances that comes from different vendors, does not support upgrade of VMware Tools, upgrade of compatibility/Virtual Hardware or take a snapshot. And some Vendors does not support vMotion/Storage Migration on there appliances. I have earlier create a script in this blog on how to disable vMotion/Storage migration here. The scripts can also be changed…
Disable/Enable vMotion on a VM
I was looking at how to disable vMotion/Storage vMotion on a VM in vCenter 6.7, after a Tweet from Michael Ryom, And I have used a script from William Lam to do this in earlier version of vCenter, and work fine, but it did not work with vCenter 6.7 Update. I have used William Lams…
VMware Horizon View 7.12.0 and more Released
VMware has released Horizon View 7.12.0, Horizon View Client, Dynamic Environment Manager 9.11, App Volumes 2.18.2, Workstation 15.5.2 and Fusion 11.5.2. Horizon View 7.12.0 What’s new: Horizon Connection Server On-Premises Horizon Console (HTML5-based Web Interface) There are several enhancements to Horizon Console. These include: You can configure two-factor authentication to occur for an end user…
VMware Unified Access Gateway and Firewall Ports
I was changing an VMware Horizon View Security Gateway, to the VMware Unified Access Gateway (UAG), because I had som problems with the old Security Gateway, in our Demo/test environment. Properly something with the Windows OS og Windows firewall, so to get away for Windows I decided to use the UAG instead. When setting up…
VMware Licensing Change
VMware has announced a change to core licensing for there products. This means that 1 CPU licens is equal to a maximum of 32 physical cores, so under the new model, one CPU license covers up to 32 cores in a single CPU. If the CPU has more than 32 cores, additional CPU licenses are…
VMware App Volumes 4 Released
VMware has released App Volumes 4.0, this has new and update features + bug fixes. There is an upgrade path from version 2.18, earlier version need to updated to this version first. If you are using the “abandoned” version 3.0 there is no upgrade path. App Volumes 4.0 is supported with Horizon View 7.10 and…
vRealize Network Insight 5.1 Released
VMware has released vRealize Network Insight 5.1, this has support for new things and enhanced features. What’s new: VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud® Analytics support for VMware SD-WAN: Support Threshold-based Analytics for various metrics for VMware SD-WAN entities including Edge, Link, and Edge-Application. Pre-SD-WAN assessment report: WAN Uplink/downlink assessment of non-SD-WAN (Cisco ASR/ISR) deployment. Generate a…
VMware Cloud Foundation 3.9.1 Released
VMware has released Cloud Foundation 3.9.1. This new version has a new Bill of Materials with never versions of the software, and other fixes. Application Virtual Networks (AVNs): Enable vRealize Suite deployment in NSX overlay networks. AVNs provide benefits for portability and failover for planned migration or disaster recovery. New installations of Cloud Foundation 3.9.1 use…
VMware Enterprise PKS 1.6.1 Released
VMware has released Enterprise PKS 1.6.1, this has some bug fixes and supports NSX-T 2.5.1. What’s new: [Bug Fix] Resolves an issue where if you are using Ops Manager v2.7 and PKS v1.6 as a fresh install, enabling Plans 11, 12, or 13 does not enable Windows worker-based clusters. It creates Linux-based clusters only. For…