Rob de Veij has released RVTools 3.11, this is one of my favorite tools. What’s new: Upgraded RVTools solution to use VMware vSphere Management SDK 6.7U1 Windows Authentication Framework (Waffle) is no longer used by RVTools NPOI .NET library for creating excel export files is no longer used by RVTools RVTools now uses OpenXML and […]
VMware has released HotFix 4 for vRealize Automation 7.5. This is a cumulative bug fix package. That contains fixes for a number of problemes, like the Custom Forms Orchestrator Validation, and hanging UI that I have blogged about earlier. See the VMware KB here for more details and download: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/60310 VMware also released Realize Suite […]
VMware has released a new version of their PowerShell extension, PowerCLI. This is available on Microsoft PowerShell Gallery. What’s new: New module available for VMware HCX Added support for NSX-T Policy services Added support for OAuth based connectivity to vCenter Added support for Opaque Networks Updated Storage module cmdlets See VMware Release blog here: https://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2019/02/powercli-11-2-0.html?src=vmw_so_vex_akjaer_1025 […]
Today I was changing a Alarm definition at a customer, and after adding a email recipient to the alarm, it sent did not work as expected. The alarm I was working on was “Host connection status”, this alarm has 2 triggers, “Host connection status” and “Host Power status”. I did the changes i the new […]
I was troubleshooting a VMware vCenter and vSAN, that does an automated VUM scan on all vSAN cluster, to check there compliance with the vSAN baselines, and they was failing. The error in the vCenter was: “There are errors during the scan operation. Check……”. I did some checks in the vCenter appliance and the Update […]
This is a follow up on a blog that Brian F. Knutsson wrote last year, about a Intel network driver that spammed the VMware ESXi logs, and vCenter event log. In the Blog from Brian the solution was to change from the Native driver and to the Linux style drive. See the blog here: https://vm.knutsson.it/2018/07/10fb-does-not-support-flow-control-autoneg/ […]
Veeam has finally released Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4. This is a major update, that contains new features, and enhancements. Some of the new features are: Support for VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 1 and Windows Server 2019, including VMware vCloud 9.5 Windows 10 (1809) Hyper-V 2019 Active Directory, Exchange 2019 and SharePoint 2019 Oracle […]
VMware has released, vCenter 6.7 Update 1b, ESXi 6.7 patch, vSphere Integrated Containers 1.5.0 and VMware PKS 1.3 vCenter 6.7 Update 1b This is bug fixing release. Notes: that this version does still not support upgrade from vCenter 6.5 Update 2b and update 2e. See the release notes here for more details: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/rn/vsphere-vcenter-server-67u1b-release-notes.html ESXi 6.7 […]
I was doing an upgrade of a VMware vRealize 7.4 -> 7.5 and also 7.5 -> 7.6 in my lab. After the upgrade i wanted to upgrade the software agent in the VM’s, but i failed with multiple errors. The first one was in the VAMI, that came with an error that i should check […]
VMware has released vRealize Network Insight 4.0. What’s new: Public/Hybrid Cloud VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) Integration as a data source Traffic analysis and micro-segmentation planning for VMC workloads Migration planning from on premises to VMC Hybrid network path troubleshooting (VMC-to-on-premises, gateways, VPN) New capabilities in AWS Geo blocking support to limit the AWS API […]