Veeam has released Management Pack 8.0 Update 5
Veeam has released Management Pack 8.0 Update 5 for Microsoft SCOM. What's new: Support for Ops Mgr and SCVMM 1801 Veeam MP supports Microsoft System Center Operation Manager 1801 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 1801. Support for Windows Server 1709 Hyper-V Veeam MP supports Windows Server 1709 Hyper-V. Windows Server 1709 Hyper-V hosts and clusters…
RVTools 3.10 Released
RVTools is one of my favorite tools to get information out of a ESXi host or vCenter. Thanks to Rob de Veij for putting time into making this tool. This new version has a lot fo cool new features: what's new: Upgraded RVTools solution to Visual Studio 2017 Upgraded RVTools to .Net Framework version 4.6.1 Upgraded Log4net…
New releases from VMware
VMware has released some new version of different products. vRealize Network Insight 3.7 This version contains new features plus security and bug fixes. What's new: Increase in Scale for Micro-Segmentation Planning You can do micro-segmentation in vRealize Network Insight now for 4 million flows. Centralized Upgrade (Offline) vRealize Network Insight supports the single-click offline upgrade from…
vCSA 6.5 Resize Disk during Migration/Upgrade/Restore
I have seen this a few time, that the Migration/Upgrade fails if the database or seat (Statistics, event and task) database runs out of disk space. you can solve this by extending the disk between Stage 1 and Stage 2. UPDATE: There is now a VMware KB with a official solution: Not sure if this…
vCSA 6.5 disks sizes
Here is a list of all sizes of vCenter (vCSA) 6.5 deployments, all disks are in GB, if nothing else is specified. vCPUs and Memory is not listed. This list i made from vCSA 6.5 Update 1e. vCenter with embedde PSC and disk size = Default. Harddisk Mount Tiny Small Medium Large X-Large Harddisk 1 / /boot SWAP 12 12…
Downsize storage on vCSA 6.5
I have been upgrading some vCenter Appliances 6.0 too 6.5 and in the process they had to be deployed with x-Large storage, But they don’t need that. But this size was the only available during upgrade, because some disks was extended. I could have forced the upgrade with other size choices with the CLI options and forced to use…
vSAN Health and Controller firmware N/A
With VMware vSAN 6.6 the vSAN health monitor can check the Storage Controller firmware level, But this does require that controller management tools are installed. If they are not installed you will see this. The tools for Lenovo M5210 Controller is not in the Lenovo customized image, so you have to install this. After downloading this from…
vCenter 6.5 Update 1e, 6.0 Update 3d and 5.5 Update 3g Released
VMware released new security updated vCenter server, There are also new patches for the ESXi server. This updated version of vCenter Server provides part of the hypervisor-assisted guest remediation of CVE-2017-5715 for guest operating systems. For important details on this remediation, see VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2018-0004. The ESXi patches are also required. See release notes here for: 6.5 U1e: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/rn/vsphere-vcenter-server-65u1e-release-notes.html 6.0…
VMware vCenter 6.5 Update 1d and ESXi 6.5 Update 1 Patch 2 Released
VMware has released vCenter 6.5 Update 1d, this is a security fix version. See the full release notes here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/rn/vsphere-vcenter-server-65u1d-release-notes.html ESXi 6.5 Update 1 Patch 2 contains bug and security fixes.Including fixes for vSAN. See this KB for more information: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2151102
Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 update 3 Released.
Veeam has released the much awaited update 3 for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5. New features Built-in agent management. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux can now be deployed and managed directly from the Veeam Backup & Replication console, adding support for physical and cloud workloads protection. Maintain complete control of data protection…