ESXi 6.0/6.5 and Intel X710 NIC Problem
If you are running ESXi 6.0/6.5 and using a Intel X710 network adapter, the network card port may stop forwarding packets, if you are using the native driver (i40en). I customer using both Dell, HPE and Lenovo servers where I have seee this problem. This is a huge problem. The is due to a new function in…
VMware Tools 10.3.0 and vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 1.3 Released
VMware has released VMware Tools 10.3.0 and vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 1.3. VMware Tools 10.3.0 What's new: VMware Tools 10.3.0 supports the following guest operating systems: windows.iso supports Windows Vista and later. VMware Tools 10.3.0 depends on and ships Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable version 14.0. While preparing the system for VMware Tools 10.3.0 installation, Microsoft Visual C++…
Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3a Released
Veeam has released Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3a, which has support for VMware vSphere 6.7 and VMware vSphere 6.5 U2 preliminary support. What's new: Platform support VMware vSphere 6.7 support. Includes the new HTML5 version of vSphere Web Client plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication, and asynchronous NBD/NBDSSL support for improved read performance of network transport…
vRealize Network Insight 3.8 Released
VMware has released vRealize Network Insight 3.8. What's new: Cisco ASA Series Support You can add Cisco ASA series as a data source in vRealize Network Insight. In this release, vRealize Network Insight supports the following features for the Cisco ASA series: Cisco ASA-X series only Routed mode and L2 bridging mode only Cisco ASA operating…
VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.2 and PowerCLI 10.1.1 Released
VMware has released NSX-T Data Center 2.2 and PowerCLI 10.1.1. NSX-T Data Center 2.2: What's new: New features: Automated NSX Controller Cluster Deployment Automatically deploy NSX Controller cluster from the NSX Manager onto vSphere clusters discovered from a vCenter Server to simplify NSX-T installation in a vSphere environment. NSX Management of Workloads in Azure NSX Datacenter…
VMware Horizon View 7.5.0 and more Released
VMware has released Horizon View 7.5.0 and other with support for vSphere 6.7 and other new features. they also released VMware User Environment Manager 9.4.0 and VMware App Volumes 2.14.0. There are also new versions of the Horizon Client 4.8. Horizon View 7.5.0 What's new: Horizon Connection Server Horizon Console Horizon Console is the latest version of…
VMware NSX 6.4.1 Released
VMware has released NSX 6.4.1 that gives support for vSphere 6.7 and other. What's new/Changed in the version: Security Services Context-Aware Firewall: Additional Layer 7 Application Context Support: SYMUPD (Symantec LiveUpdate traffic, which includes spyware definitions, firewall rules, antivirus signature files, and software updates), MAXDB (SQL connections and queries made to a MaxDB SQL server), and…
Veeam and vSphere 6.5 Update 2 / 6.7 support
At the moment Veeam does not support VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 2 and vSphere 6.7. What this means is that you have to be carefull when doing patch if using VMware vCenter Update Manager or other, because this could break your image backup. Veeam has identified issues with this releases, that relates to the VDDK api and possible also the…
VMware vCenter 6.7a and other released
VMware has released vCenter 6.7a, vSphere Replication 8.1.0.2, vSphere Integrated Containers 1.4, and PowerCLI 10.1. vCenter 6.7a and vSphere Replication 8.1.0.2 This are bug fix versions. See the release notes for vCenter 6.7a here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/rn/vsphere-vcenter-server-670a-release-notes.html See the release notes for vSphere Relication 8.1.0.2 here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vSphere-Replication/8.1/rn/vsphere-replication-81-release-notes.html vSphere Integrated Containers 1.4 What's new: Added the ability to add VCHs to DRS VM affinity groups. Read more.…
VMware Workstation 14.1.2 and Fusion 10.1.2 Released
VMware has released Workstation 14.1.2 and Fusion 10.1.2. What's new: Windows 10 2018 Spring Creators Update (Version 1803) as host and guest Ubuntu 18.04 support as host and guest See the full release notes her for Workstation 14.1.2:https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/14/rn/workstation-1412-release-notes.html See the full release notes her for Fusion 10.1.2:https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusion/10/rn/fusion-1012-release-notes.html