VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.2 Released
VMware has released a new version of vRealize Operations Manager version 6.0. What's New? vRealize Operations Manager 6.2 is the latest release of the VMware integrated vRealize Operations Suite. Updates cover all major areas of the product including installation, configuration, licensing, alerting, dashboards, reports, and policies. This release introduces the following enhancements. Enhanced Distributed Resource Scheduler…
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:…
vSAN issue “Host cannot communicate with all other….”
There is a bug in vSphere 6.0 Update 1b that could give som false warnings, like “Host cannot communicate with all other nodes in the Virtual SAN enabled cluster”. The problem and solution can be found in this KB: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=2143214 One of my colleagues tried this but it does not always work, and we had to leave the customers…
VMware vCenter Converter 6.1 Released
VMware has just released a VMware vCenter Converter 6.1. What's new: The VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 6.1 provides: Support for additional guest operating systems: Windows 10, Ubuntu 15. Offline conversions for HyperV 2012 R2 virtual machines. SSH key based authentication for the Linux sources during conversion. Support for VMware Workstation 12. For full release notes see: https://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/converter/61/conv_sa_61_rel_notes.html…
Oracle licensing and support on VMware vSphere
As every one knows any good project get stopped by licensing. Oracle are up to there old tricks of trying to get more money or making virtual environment segmented (extra vCenter på Oracle hosts. staying on 5.5). It's properly the same with Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer. Before you just do as Oracle or there auditing partners says,…
New VMware OS Optimization Tool Published
VMware has published a new OS Optimization tool for VDI machines. There are a lot of new things, and fixes: Change Log Windows 10 template (beta) Login time optimization, for Windows 7, Window 8, Windows 8.1. Visual effect correction, now works for both current user and new users. This change applies to Windows 7, Windows…
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…
VCS til VCSA Converter update
VMware has made a new version of the fling used for migration/convertion of Windows based vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance. This new version has the following improvements: Add support for Windows Server 2012R2 VC servers Allow specifying a different port for the SQL Server It can be found here: https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vcs-to-vcva-converter Note 1: Only works on vCenter 5.5.…
Error Installing VMRC 8.0 on Windows 10
While trying to install VMware’s VMRC 8.0 on Microsoft Windows 10 the installation fails with error “Failed to install hcmon driver”. The solution is to start the installer from an elevated command prompt "Run as Administrator", and then run the MSI packages from here.
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…