Category: vCenter

Critical Security patch for vCenter 6.7

If you have upgraded your vCenter from earlier versions of vCenter, then you should patch your vCenter. This security bug is rated 10.0 out of 10.0. A malicious actor with network access to an affected vmdir deployment may be able to extract highly sensitive information which could be used to compromise vCenter Server or other…

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By Allan Kjaer April 14, 2020 0

VMware vSphere 7 Released and more

VMware has released vSphere 7.0, vSphere Replication 8.3, Remote Console 11.1.0 and PowerCLI 12.0. This mean that it bye bye to the Windows based vCenter External PSC, Flash/Flex web client and Linux style drivers. This is just an overview of some of the new features and enhancements. Before upgrading, please check compatibility/interoperability with other solutions.…

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By Allan Kjaer April 2, 2020 0

Disable/Enable VM Methods on Virtual Appliances in vCenter

Most appliances that comes from different vendors, does not support upgrade of VMware Tools, upgrade of compatibility/Virtual Hardware or take a snapshot. And some Vendors does not support vMotion/Storage Migration on there appliances. I have earlier create a script in this blog on how to disable vMotion/Storage migration here. The scripts can also be changed…

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By Allan Kjaer March 27, 2020 4

VMware vCenter and LDAP Connection to Microsoft AD

Update (2/6/2020): On February 4, 2020 Microsoft changed their guidance for the March 2020 Windows Updates to indicate that the defaults will NOT be changing in that update. https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/ADV190023 Microsoft will release new patches here properly in the 2nd half of 2020 thru Windows Update, that will disable simple authentication connection to domain controller over LDAP,…

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By Allan Kjaer January 13, 2020 0

VMware vCenter and ESXi 6.7 Update 3b Released

VMware has released vCenter 6.7 Update 3b and ESXi 6.7 Update 3b. VMware vCenter 6.7 Update 3b This is bug fixes and security fx version. See the release notes here: Release notes VMware ESXi 6.7 Update 3b This is bug fixesand security fixes version. One of them is a fix for the Revert snapshot CBT…

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By Allan Kjaer December 6, 2019 0

vCenter Stops with Database Error

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]…

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By Allan Kjaer November 12, 2019 2

vCenter 6.7 Update 3a, VMware Tools 10.3.21 and 11.0.1 Released

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…

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By Allan Kjaer October 25, 2019 0