After Restore of vCenter7.0 Update 2d Task Shows Label
I have just Restore of a vCenter 7.0 Update 2d, from a VAMI backup. Not sure if this is the only version that have this problem. After I was restored the tasks was only showing the “Task Label” and not the normal text, on some of the vCenter tasks, it looked like this. Apparently the…
VCSA Restore Problem
I was just today doing at restore of a vCenter 7.0 from a VCSA backup, and in stage 2, when it validated the backup file and checks the newly deployed VCSA, it returned the following error/failure. Metadata and system validation failed. Error: Unknown system resource type seat Error: Unknown system resource type vtsdb This error…
vCenter Patches Released, Fixes Security Issue
VMware has released vCenter 6.5 Update 3p, 6.7 Update 3n and 7.0 Update 2b, this contains a serious security bug. It also con Security Issues VMware vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a remote code execution vulnerability due to lack of input validation in the VMware vSAN health check plug-in. A malicious actor with network access to…
vCenter Server Appliance /storage/log Full
On the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) i have mulitple times seen that the /storage/log runs full, there are multiple reasons that this happens. But lately the most common reason, is that if you creates support bundles, they are stored in “/storage/log” on the appliance, the problem is that this do not get deleted automatically, this…
vCenter Appliance 6.5 upgrade to 6.7 Error
I was upgrading a vCenter today, that was running on a Standalone ESXi host, that was using the free Hypervisor license. I always uses the CLI and JSON file for upgrading vCenter servers, since it’s easy to run the upgrade multiple times, without going thru the GUI. Bu when i did at this customer, I…
vCSA Upgrade to 6.7 Failure
Yesterday I was upgrading a vCSA 6.0 to 6.7 Update 2, I ran into a strange failure. I was using a JSON file for the upgrade, because I better can choose the size and, it’s easier to do multiple tries, and don’t have to go thru the wizard every time. When i ran the upgrade…
VMware vCenter 6.5 Update 1g, 6.0 Update 3e and 5.5 Update 3h Released
VMware has released vCenter 6.5 Update 1g, vCenter 6.0 Update 3e and vCenter 5.5 Update 3h. These releases fixes a problem with EVC mode problem, when adding new hosts, and some security fixes. See the full releasen notes for vCenter 6.5 Update 1g here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/rn/vsphere-vcenter-server-65u1g-release-notes.html See the full releasen notes for vCenter 6.0 Update 3e here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/rn/vsphere-vcenter-server-60u3e-release-notes.html See the full releasen…
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. Not sure if this is supported, so uses this at your own risk. This may…
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…