New Releases and Flings from VMware
VMware has released a few new releases of there products. Releases: vRealize Log Insight 3.2.2, this is a maintenance release, it now supports vSphere 5.x vCenter license keys, and more. See release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/LogInsight/33/log-insight-332-release-notes.html NSX for vSphere 6.2.3, this is a maintenance release with a lot of fixes and new features, it is now has a default…
Microsoft Convenience Update and VMware VMXNET3 Incompatibilities
Microsoft has released a Convenience Patch, this is not compatible with VMXNET3 driver. This affects Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 7. See more information here: http://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2016/06/rush-post-microsoft-convenience-update-and-vmware-vmxnet3-incompatibilities.html
ESXi: How to find HBA/NIC driver/Firmware version
I have seen some problems when running the wrong driver version against firmware version, so here is a guide how to find the information you need to check compatability on ESXI 5.x and 6.0. I will get all the in the console via SSH. How to find NIC information: With the command: I can see the names of the…
Goodbye vSphere Client for Windows (C#) – Hello HTML5
This is not the first time VMware has announced the vSphere Client is dead (also known as the C# Client), but this time it looks like they have a real alternative i the HTML5 client, that you can try from the Fling site. I am using the HTML5 client in a Demo/lab environment at work at is…
vSphere HTML5 Web Client v1.6
VMware has updated there vSphere HTML5 Web Client fling to version 1.4. What's New in version 1.5 and 1.6: Customize guest OS when cloning a VM (basic) — select existing spec HA: responses to some failure conditions for a cluster can be viewed View port groups for standard switches VM Snapshots features include Revert to Latest…
vSphere-land Top virtualization Blog Voting
It's time to cast a vote for your favorite blogs about virtualization. On vLauncePad there is a lot of links to virtualization blogs, this voting will sort out who is on the Top 100, for the coming year. Se the blog about the voting here: http://vsphere-land.com/news/voting-now-open-for-top-vblog-2016.html You can cast your vote here: http://sgiz.mobi/s3/TopvBlog2016
ESXi Embedded Host Client 8
VMware Keeps updating the ESXi Embedded Host Client fling, and it's now in version 1.3 (fling 8). Here are the change log for version 1.1 and 1.3: Version 1.3.0 build 3841871 (Fling 8) General Table/grid filtering search and pattern highlighting Most tables now offer right click support in all columns Automatically fix the proxy configuration…
vSphere HTML5 Web Client v1.4
Wow. VMware has updated there vSphere HTML5 Web Client fling to version 1.4, It's going really fast with new versions, NICE. Version 1.4 New Features Upload a file to a Datastore ([Datastore] -> Manage -> Files) – Client Integration Plugin is not required Migrate a VM’s compute resource to a resource pool Improvements Edit an existing…
ESXi 6 Update 2, PDL errors on VVOL PE device
I was upgrading a customer to vSphere 6.0 Update 2, The vCenter went fine. but when i came to upgrade the ESXi hosts they hags when it comes to the massage "About to install" at the Console When looking at the logger screen "ALT+F12" it looks like this: And in the vmkernel.log there was a lot of this:…
Veeam B&R SQL Log Shipping and Firewall Rules
I was looking at which ports that should be open in a Firewall, for SQL log Shipping to work, so I was looking at the "VM Guest OS Connection" section of the documentation: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/backup/vsphere/used_ports.html#guest But that is not all that needs to be opened you also have to look at the "Backup Server Connections" section and…