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…
VMware VEBA Fling 0.7.1 is Released
Michael Gasch and William Lam has released a new version of the VMware Event Broker Appliance version 0.7.1. I have found that Event driven automation is very exciting and can solve a lot of problems, and automate trivial tasks in the datacenter, I our company demo/test lab I have an old Appliance running and doing…
After Restore of vCenter7.0 Update 2d Task Shows Label
I have just Restore of a vCenter 7.0 Update 2d, from a VAMI backup. Not sure if this is the only version that have this problem. After I was restored the tasks was only showing the “Task Label” and not the normal text, on some of the vCenter tasks, it looked like this. Apparently the…
VCSA Restore Problem
I was just today doing at restore of a vCenter 7.0 from a VCSA backup, and in stage 2, when it validated the backup file and checks the newly deployed VCSA, it returned the following error/failure. Metadata and system validation failed. Error: Unknown system resource type seat Error: Unknown system resource type vtsdb This error…
VMware Fling VEBA v0.7 Released
William Lam and Michael Gasch has released version 0.7 of the VEBA Fling. What’s new. VMware Horizon Event Provider Generic CloudEvent Webhook Event Provider Day 2 Operations Improvements Monitoring Logging New Function Examples VEBA Website Update bug fixes and enhancements There at lots of optimization for Knative functions, so make sure to look into the…
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 3 Released
VMware has released vCenter 7.0 Update 3, including vSphere for Tanzu, ESXi 7.0 Update vSAN 7.0 Update 3 and Replication 8.5. Before updating/upgrading remember to check that VMware and 3. party product are supported. vCenter 7.0 Update 3 What’s new: vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation, and support for snapshots of PMem VMs: vSphere Memory Monitoring…
vCSA /storage/log Running Full
I have been trouble shooting a problem with the /storage/log running full, for a customer. The problem was that the file /storage/log/vmware/vmware-sps/sps-runtime.log.stderr file was growing very large. I the log file I found the the vmware-sps (Storage Profile Service) had some problems. The errors looks like this May 31, 2021 7:18:02 AM org.bouncycastle.jsse.provider.ProvTlsClient notifyAlertRaised INFO:…
vCenter Patches Released, Fixes Security Issue
VMware has released vCenter 6.5 Update 3p, 6.7 Update 3n and 7.0 Update 2b, this contains a serious security bug. It also con Security Issues VMware vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a remote code execution vulnerability due to lack of input validation in the VMware vSAN health check plug-in. A malicious actor with network access to…