Category: VMware

vSphere Web Client 5.5 Update 2d

I have done the first upgrade til vSphere 5.5 update 2d today, and that went smooth. Afterward I needed to show the customer some things in vCenter and i used the vSphere Web Client, afterwards his first comment was, why is the vSphere Web Client running so fast on my machine, I had not noticed it, so i tried i againt,…

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By Allan Kjaer January 29, 2015 0

VMware vSphere 5.5 Patches

On January 27, 2015 VMware released new patches for vSphere 5.5, vCenter 5.5 Update 2d, and ESXi 5.5 update 2d. One of the resolved items in ESXi 5.5 Update 2, is the CBT bug, seen in this VMware KB: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2090639 This KB is not updated, with this information at the moment, but it is in one of the release notes…

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By Allan Kjaer January 28, 2015 0

vRealize Operations and vSOM Licens

If you have VMware vSOM licenses and want to install the vRealize Operations it's not available under the vSphere with Operation Manager download, but you can download i direct from the vRealize download page intend. For the licenses key, just use the same licenses key that you use for your ESXi hosts, not the vCenter…

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By Allan Kjaer January 16, 2015 0

VMware ESXi 5.x and HP AMS module problem

There is a problem with the HP AMS module on ESXi 5.x, if your installation is affected by this problem, the only solultion might be to shutdown all running Virtual Machines, and reboot the host. If you want to check if your installation i affect you can se the version of the AMS module here, look under…

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By Allan Kjaer December 19, 2014 0

Cancel Remove Snapshot Task

* Disclamer: I'm not sure this is supported by VMware, and requires a deep knowledge of how VMware snapshots works, and this can vary in different versions. I had a customer contacting me that they had a problem. They had shutdown a Virtual Machine because it had a huge snapshot ~1.7 TB, and afterwards they had…

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By Allan Kjaer December 18, 2014 2

VMware vRealize Automation 6.2 and more Released

VMware har released there new version of vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) now VMware vRealize Automation 6.2 and vRealize Automation Application Services 6.2. What's New Supportability Enhancements Improved logging and event tracking for auditing. Included centralized log collection of all cluster logs, including IaaS. Added telemetry support. Added certificate validation and simplification in vRealize Automation Management console. Integration…

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By Allan Kjaer December 9, 2014 0

VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 Released

VMware has released the new version of vCenter Operations Manager, now called vRealize Operations Manager, this is an exciting "new" product, that has a lot of changes from the old version, that I have been looking forwart to for some time. Scale-Out Deployment Architecture This release provides distributed deployment with elastic scale and higher scalability. Unified User Interface…

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By Allan Kjaer December 9, 2014 0

VMware Workstation 11 Released

VMware Workstation 11 was released yesterday. What's New New Operating System Support Support has been added for the following guest operating systems: Windows 8.1 Update Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows 10 Technical Preview (Experimental support) Ubuntu 14.10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 CentOS 7 OpenSUSE 13.2 SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 VMware Hardware Version 11 Hardware…

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By Allan Kjaer December 2, 2014 0

VMware vCenter syslog Collector

I had a customer, where the vCenter server was running out of disk space, and i turned out to be, the vCenter syslog Collector log file that was growing rapidly, and had grown to +30 GB. The solution was to disable the debugging on the service in the configuration file: %PROGRAMDATA%\VMware\VMware Syslog Collector\vmconfig-syslog.xml -<debug> <level>0</level> </debug> Changed…

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By Allan Kjaer November 22, 2014 0

IBM x3650 M4 ESXi installation

Today I had to install ESXi on some IBM x3650 M4 thru IMM, i uses the IBM ESXi 5.5 U1 Customized image, but it ended up in an endless reboot, where it just reset under the boot of the installation image. It turned to be a problem with the boot order, that should stand in a particular…

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By Allan Kjaer October 29, 2014 2