Dead SD-Card in ESXi vSAN node
Yesterday I was contacted by a customer that needed to reboot a ESXi host on a HPE server, because i needed to get the NAND reset, to clear an error in the ILO. But the customer have had some bad experience with reboot there ESXi/vSAN hosts, that they could not boot on the SD-Card ,…
vCenter upgrade from 6.0 Error “vpx_vdevice_backing_rel_seq”
I have seen the error “ERROR: must be owner of relation vpx_vdevice_backing_rel_seq; ” a few times when upgrading from vCenter 6.0 til 6.5 or 6.7. This is a problem with the sequence owner ship. Brian Knutsson have a blog about how to resolv this here: https://vm.knutsson.it/2017/10/things-to-know-about-upgrading-vcsa-6-0-to-vcsa-6-5/ I do this a little different but the result…
How-to Create vCenter Alarms on “Custom” Event
The alarms in vCenter can handle more events, then what is in the list, you just have to find the connect event sting. the first thing is to find the connect event string, also called the “EventTypeID”. This can be done thru Powershell/PowerCLI, in this example i am looking for the revert snapshot string. Before…
VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.5 and NSX Intelligence v1.0 Released
VMware has released NSX-T Data Center 2.5 and NSX Intelligence v1.0. NSX-T Data Center 2.5 What’s new: Container API Support New API support is available for container inventory. See the API documentation. L2 Networking NSX MTU Size Increased to 9100 Bytes – To support the need for transmitting frames with a 9000 MTU over GENEVE…
VMware Workstation 15.5 and Fusion 11.5 Released
VMware Has released Workstation 15.5 and Fusion 11.5. Workstation 15.5 What’s new: Support for new guest operating systems: Windows 10 19H2 Debian 10.0/10.1 Debian 9.11 Oracle Linux 8.0 SLE 15 SP1 FreeBSD 12.0 PhotonOS 3.0 Jumbo frame support: Virtual networks can now be configured with MTU size of up to 9000 bytes. Preserve Network Configuration:…
VMware vRealize Network Insight 5.0 Released
VMware has released vRealize Network Insight 5.0. What’s new: VMware SD-WAN Support VMware SD-WANTM by VeloCloud® support for end-end network/application monitoring, troubleshooting, analytics Uber Enterprise Dashboard with map view. Site/Edge, App Dashboards and Analysis. Site/Edge Topology for LAN and WAN visibility. VMware SD-WAN Flow Analysis that includes traffic, latency and retransmit counts. Top Performance Dashboards…
VMware Horizon 7.10 And more Released
VMware has released Horizon View 7.10, Dynamic Environment Manager 9.9.0, App Volumes 2.18 and ThinApp 5.2.6. Horizon View 7.10 What’s new: Horizon Connection Server On-Premises Horizon Console (HTML5-based Web Interface) There are several enhancements to Horizon Console. These include: Monitor the status of Horizon 7 components in the Horizon Console dashboard. Monitor the Connection Server…
Veeam ONE 9.5 Update 4a Released
Veeam has released Veeam ONE 9.5 Update 4a. What’s new: Platform support Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2019 is now supported. VMware vCloud Director 9.7 compatibility at the existing Update 4 feature level. VMware vSphere 6.7 U2 readiness including support for VMs with virtual hardware version 15. Dell EMC Data Domain using DD OS…
CBT bug on Revert Snapshot
Veeam has found a new bug in VMware Change Blocking Track (CBT) that can/will corrupt backups. When doing a revert on a snapshot, the CBT “QueryChangedDiskAreas API” will return incorrect data, to the backup solution. VMware has published a KB71155 about the problem and says that this i is working as designed! So the solution/workaround…
VMware Enterprise PKS 1.5 and Essential PKS 1.15 Released
VMware has release new versions of Enterprise PKS 1.5 and Essential PKS 1.15. Enterprise PKS 1.5 What’s new: External SAML identity provider support Support for OIDC prefixes Configurable lifetime for Kubernetes cluster access token Windows worker node support (Beta) Cluster by cluster upgrade (Beta) VMware Enterprise PKS Management Console (Beta coming soon) Kubernetes 1.14.5 Network…