RVTools 4.0.4 released
Rob de Veij has released a new version of one of my favorit tools for VMware vSphere. Thanks to Rob for this great tool. What’s new: Upgraded RVTools solution to use VMware vSphere Management SDK 7.0 Upgraded RVTools solution to use CIS REST API, available since vSphere 6.5, to get tag information vInfo tab page…
VMware vCenter 6.7 Update 3g and ESXi 6.7 patch Released
VMware has released vCenter 6.7 Update 3g, and also a new patch for ESXi 6.7 Update 3 P02. vCenter 6.7 Update 3g What’s new: New alarms in vCenter Server: vCenter Server 6.7 Update 3g adds a Replication State Change alarm to the vCenter Server Appliance with an Embedded Platform Services Controller that displays when a replication state changes to…
VMware vRealize Suite 8.1 and more released
VMware has released vRealize Automation 8.1, vRealize Orchestrator 8.1, Operations 8.1,vRealize Log Insight 8.1, vRealize Network Insight 5.2, vRealize Lifecycle Configuration Manager 8.1, VMware Cloud Foundations 4.0 and VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center 6.0. The what’s new are not complete lists of new og enhanced features. vRealize Automation 8.1 What’s new: Support for…
Critical Security patch for vCenter 6.7
If you have upgraded your vCenter from earlier versions of vCenter, then you should patch your vCenter. This security bug is rated 10.0 out of 10.0. A malicious actor with network access to an affected vmdir deployment may be able to extract highly sensitive information which could be used to compromise vCenter Server or other…
VMware NSX-T 3.0 Released
VMware has released NSX-T 3.0 and also a new NSX Intelligence 1.1. This version will support vSphere 7.0, and one of the new things is that it uses VDS 7 and instead of N-VDS, and there are alot more changes and new features. Some of the new things/changes are: Support Added support for Windows 2016…
VMware vSphere 7 Released and more
VMware has released vSphere 7.0, vSphere Replication 8.3, Remote Console 11.1.0 and PowerCLI 12.0. This mean that it bye bye to the Windows based vCenter External PSC, Flash/Flex web client and Linux style drivers. This is just an overview of some of the new features and enhancements. Before upgrading, please check compatibility/interoperability with other solutions.…
Disable/Enable VM Methods on Virtual Appliances in vCenter
Most appliances that comes from different vendors, does not support upgrade of VMware Tools, upgrade of compatibility/Virtual Hardware or take a snapshot. And some Vendors does not support vMotion/Storage Migration on there appliances. I have earlier create a script in this blog on how to disable vMotion/Storage migration here. The scripts can also be changed…
Disable/Enable vMotion on a VM
I was looking at how to disable vMotion/Storage vMotion on a VM in vCenter 6.7, after a Tweet from Michael Ryom, And I have used a script from William Lam to do this in earlier version of vCenter, and work fine, but it did not work with vCenter 6.7 Update. I have used William Lams…
VMware Horizon View 7.12.0 and more Released
VMware has released Horizon View 7.12.0, Horizon View Client, Dynamic Environment Manager 9.11, App Volumes 2.18.2, Workstation 15.5.2 and Fusion 11.5.2. Horizon View 7.12.0 What’s new: Horizon Connection Server On-Premises Horizon Console (HTML5-based Web Interface) There are several enhancements to Horizon Console. These include: You can configure two-factor authentication to occur for an end user…
VMware Unified Access Gateway and Firewall Ports
I was changing an VMware Horizon View Security Gateway, to the VMware Unified Access Gateway (UAG), because I had som problems with the old Security Gateway, in our Demo/test environment. Properly something with the Windows OS og Windows firewall, so to get away for Windows I decided to use the UAG instead. When setting up…