VMware vSphere 8 Update 2 Released
VMware has released ESXi 8 Update 2, vCenter 8 Update 2, vSAN 8 Update 2 and vSphere with Tanzu 8 “Update 2”. NOTE: Before upgrading, remember to check if your third support vSphere 8 Update 2, like backup/monitoring/automation/integration software/services. ESXi 8 Update 2 What’s new: See the release notes here. vCenter 8 Update 2 What’s…
vSphere 8.0 Update 1 and More Released
VMware has released vCenter 8.0 Update, ESXi 8.0 Update 1, vSAN 8.0 Update 1, Replication 8.7 and vSphere with Tanzu 8.0. With this release VMware has changed the AI/GA Release model for vSphere, the vCenter is released as GA but ESXi is released as IA, for more information se this blog. vCenter 8.0 Update/ESXi 8.0…
vCenter Expired Certificates
I had a strange problem in my Lab, that was showing that there was expired certificates in the vCenter. Running the following command on the vCenter Appiance: This show that there was no expired certificates, but there was a expired Certificate Request. The __MACHINER_CSR was expired, I think this was leftover becaurse created 1 request,…
VMware vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 Released (IA)
VMware has released VMware vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 as Initial Availability (IA). This also includes vSphere Replication 8.6, VMware Tanzu Kubernetes and vSphere with Tanzu 8.0. Initial Availability vSphere 8.0 delivers its Initial Availability (IA) release. The IA release is the first release of vSphere 8.0 and is available to all customers. Custom ISO…
Powered Off Storage Migration and Performance
If you are moving a powered off VM from one host to another, that cannot see the same storage, the copying of the data is send over the network. In version 7 and older this is done with the NFC protocol, but that is slow, so with vSphere 8 VMware has introduces a new protocol…
VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) 0.7.4 Released
VMware har released the Fling VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) version 0.7.4. This is a minor update, that fixes the problem in the VEBA vCenter UI, that I have written about here. I got access to an early release and can confirm that the problem is fixed. Thanks to Michael Gasch and William Lam for…
VMware VEBA 0.7.3 Released
The VMware Event Broker Appliance version 0.7.3 has been released. This is one of my favorite toy to play around with, so tomorrow i will see if can get time to change my old one for this release. I have been talking about this a lot to colleagues and also had a session on the…
RVTools 4.3.1 Released
RVTools is one of my favorite tools I uses for troubleshooting, health checks. gathering information and more for my customers VMware vSphere environments. So a big thanks to Rob de Veij, for this amazing tool, that he made, is still putting new features into. here is a list of what’s new. since the last time…
VMware vRA 8 and vCenter Content Library
I was looking into using vCenter Content Librari to store Templates for deployment in vRealize Automation Cloud Tempates (Blueprints). There are 2 ways to store a Template in vCenter 7 Content Library. They can be converted to OVA/OVF templates or stored as VM Templates. I wanted to use the new VM Templates method, but I…