New Announcements from VMware
VMware has today announced vSphere 6.7 Update 2, vRealize Operations 7.5, vRealize Automation 7.6, vRealize Lifecycle Manager 2.1, vRealize Network Insight 4.1, and some new support Persistent Memory Technology, in vSphere 6.7. vSphere 6.7 Update 2 What’s new: Deprecation of external PSC vCenter linked mode topology view Overview of vCenter and PSCs Health Replication modified…
RVTools 3.11 Released
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…
vCenter 6.7 U1 HTML5 Client and Alarm Definition Problem
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…
VMware vCenter Update Manager Scan Failure
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…
10fb does not support flow control autoneg
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 Released Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4
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…
New Releases from VMware
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…
VMware vCenter 6.5 Update 2d and ESXi 6.5 patch released
VMware has released vCenter 6.5 Update 2d, and a new patch for ESXI 6.5 (29th November 2018). ESXi 6.5 The ESXi 6.5 Update 2x patch contains many of bug fixes. See the VMware KB for this release here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/rn/esxi650-201811002.html VMware vCenter 6.5 Update 2d: Important: Upgrade and migration paths from vCenter Server 6.5 Update 2d to vCenter Server 6.7 Update 1 are not supported.…
VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 1 Released
VMware has released vSphere 6.7 Update 1, before installing make sure that your 3rd part application supports this new version, like image backup, management and other. This version will feature the full function HTML5 client i vCenter. Backup problem: Veeam has found some problems after updating to this version, see this forum thread: https://forums.veeam.com/vmware-vsphere-f24/vsphere-6-7-u1-support-t54673.html Veeam has a KB…
New VMware Releases
VMware has released vCenter 6.7d, 6.5 Update 2c, 6.0 Update 3h and 5.5 Update 3j and ESXi updates for 6.7, 6.5 Update 2, 6.0 Update 3 and 5.5 Update 3, and also Workstation 14.1.3 and Fusion 10.1.3, this are all security updates. Important: Be aware that the patch for ESXi has fixes for two security problems with…