New Releases from VMware and Flings
VMware has released some new versions for some of there vRealize suite products. VMware vRealize Automation 7.1.0 What's New The vRealize Automation 7.1 release includes resolved issues and the following changes. Streamlined installation process using a silent installer. Agent and prerequisite command line interface. Migration tool to move data from a source vRealize Automation 6.2.x environment…
VMware Releases and Flings
VMware has released a new version of vRealize Log Insight 3.6. This version has some enhancements and preview features. vRealize Operations Manager Integration Enhancements Enhanced Alerting Alerts sent to vRealize Operations Manager now contain the same metadata as email alerts. Auto Cancel Alerts User alerts to vRealize Operations Manager can be set to auto cancel in…
VMware Released a new Patch for ESXi 6.0 (Patch 3)
VMware released a new patch for ESXi 6.0 named Patch 3, this a lot of fixes for vSAN, vSAN health, PSOD, security and other. There are 6 KB about what the Patch contains and the can be found here: https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2145664 https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2145817 https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2145816 https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2146217 https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2145669 https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2145666
vCSA 6.0 update 1 Error “503 service Unavailable”
Today I had a call from a customer that could not get into there vCenter. When they opened the web backup https://vCenter.domain.local they got this message: 503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http20NamedPipeServiceSpecE:0x7f32a40624c0] _serverNamespace = / _isRedirect = false _pipeName =/var/run/vmware/vpxd-webserver-pipe) This i normal during restart of the vCSA or vCenter server. but…
New Releases from VMware
VMware has released some new versions for some of there products. VMware Horizon 7 version 7.0.1 see release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/horizon-7-view/horizon-701-view-release-notes.html VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon 6.3 see release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/v4h/63/vrealize-horizon-63-release-notes.html VMware vRealize Operations for Published Applications 6.3 see release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/v4pa/63/vrealize-operations-for-published-applications63-release-notes.html VMware App Volumes 2.11 see release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/appvolumes/2.11/app-volumes-211-release-notes.html VMware Mirage 5.8 see release notes…
New Releases and Flings from VMware
VMware has released a few new releases of there products. Releases: vRealize Log Insight 3.2.2, this is a maintenance release, it now supports vSphere 5.x vCenter license keys, and more. See release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/LogInsight/33/log-insight-332-release-notes.html NSX for vSphere 6.2.3, this is a maintenance release with a lot of fixes and new features, it is now has a default…
Microsoft Convenience Update and VMware VMXNET3 Incompatibilities
Microsoft has released a Convenience Patch, this is not compatible with VMXNET3 driver. This affects Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 7. See more information here: http://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2016/06/rush-post-microsoft-convenience-update-and-vmware-vmxnet3-incompatibilities.html
ESXi: How to find HBA/NIC driver/Firmware version
I have seen some problems when running the wrong driver version against firmware version, so here is a guide how to find the information you need to check compatability on ESXI 5.x and 6.0. I will get all the in the console via SSH. How to find NIC information: With the command: I can see the names of the…
Goodbye vSphere Client for Windows (C#) – Hello HTML5
This is not the first time VMware has announced the vSphere Client is dead (also known as the C# Client), but this time it looks like they have a real alternative i the HTML5 client, that you can try from the Fling site. I am using the HTML5 client in a Demo/lab environment at work at is…
vSphere HTML5 Web Client v1.6
VMware has updated there vSphere HTML5 Web Client fling to version 1.4. What's New in version 1.5 and 1.6: Customize guest OS when cloning a VM (basic) — select existing spec HA: responses to some failure conditions for a cluster can be viewed View port groups for standard switches VM Snapshots features include Revert to Latest…