i been helping a customer troubleshooting a problem where some virtual machines was hanging. The VM’s just stopped answering on the network, and could not be accessed in the console. The VM’s hang for around <1 minut, but some time i after a few seconds, it hang again, and could repeat this over a long […]
VMware has released new builds of ESXi 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7, this are bug fixes, and security fixes, including new Intel CPU microcodes. The ESXi 6.7, also includes a fix for “Sensor -1 type hardware health alarms” that may fill the vCenter SEAT database disk, and other fixes. The ESXi 6.0 also includes a fix […]
Today I had to do some troubleshooting on a vCenter 6.7 that stopped working. The vCenter tried to start the vCenter service in a loop, but always stoppen. I looked at the logs for the vCenter, when it was stating and after a minuts I found the problem. 2019-11-12T10:00:32.752+01:00 error vpxd[13536] [Originator@6876 sub=Default opID=HB-host-276676@5660-594724f6] [Vdb::VdbField] […]
VMware has released Cloud Foundation 3.9.0. What’s new 3.9.0: Cluster-Level Upgrade Support: Provides an option to select individual clusters within a workload domain for ESXi upgrades. Multi-Instance Management: Allows you to monitor multiple Cloud Foundation instances from a single console. Fibre Channel Storage as Principal Storage: Virtual Infrastructure (VI) workload domains now support Fibre Channel […]
VMware has released PowerCLI 11.5. What’s new: Added cmdlets for Content Library management Added cmdlets for vCenter alarm management Added cmdlets for VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC management Updated Get-*Service output Updated New-VM parameters for networking Updated performance for Tag based operations Updated properties of Virtual Machine object Updated support for Horizon 7.10.0 Updated support […]
VMware has released vCenter 6.7 update 3a, vCenter 6.5 update 3d, VMware Tools 10.3.21 (this is for Linux) and VMware Tools 10.0.1 (this is for Windows and OSX). vCenter 6.7 Update 3a This new version i a bug fix version. See the release notes here for more information: Release notes vCenter 6.5 update 3d This […]
VMware has released vRealize Suite 2019, which is vRealize Automation 8.0 , Operations Manager 8.0, vRealize Log Insight 8.0, vRealize Orchestator 8.0 and vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.0 . vRealize Automation 8.0 Note that there are no upgrade from vRealize Automation 7.x, but there is a migration option, but not all implementation can be migrated, […]
Yesterday I was contacted by a customer that needed to reboot a ESXi host on a HPE server, because i needed to get the NAND reset, to clear an error in the ILO. But the customer have had some bad experience with reboot there ESXi/vSAN hosts, that they could not boot on the SD-Card , […]
I have seen the error “ERROR: must be owner of relation vpx_vdevice_backing_rel_seq; ” a few times when upgrading from vCenter 6.0 til 6.5 or 6.7. This is a problem with the sequence owner ship. Brian Knutsson have a blog about how to resolv this here: https://vm.knutsson.it/2017/10/things-to-know-about-upgrading-vcsa-6-0-to-vcsa-6-5/ I do this a little different but the result […]
The alarms in vCenter can handle more events, then what is in the list, you just have to find the connect event sting. the first thing is to find the connect event string, also called the “EventTypeID”. This can be done thru Powershell/PowerCLI, in this example i am looking for the revert snapshot string. Before […]