New Releases from VMware and Flings
VMware has released some new versions for some of there vRealize suite products. VMware vRealize Automation 7.1.0 What's New The vRealize Automation 7.1 release includes resolved issues and the following changes. Streamlined installation process using a silent installer. Agent and prerequisite command line interface. Migration tool to move data from a source vRealize Automation 6.2.x environment…
VMware Releases and Flings
VMware has released a new version of vRealize Log Insight 3.6. This version has some enhancements and preview features. vRealize Operations Manager Integration Enhancements Enhanced Alerting Alerts sent to vRealize Operations Manager now contain the same metadata as email alerts. Auto Cancel Alerts User alerts to vRealize Operations Manager can be set to auto cancel in…
VMware Released a new Patch for ESXi 6.0 (Patch 3)
VMware released a new patch for ESXi 6.0 named Patch 3, this a lot of fixes for vSAN, vSAN health, PSOD, security and other. There are 6 KB about what the Patch contains and the can be found here: https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2145664 https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2145817 https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2145816 https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2146217 https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2145669 https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2145666
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 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:…
vSphere Enterprise licenses EOA
VMware has announced that vSphere Enterprise licenses is EOA June 30, 2016, this also includes Operations Management Standard and VMware vSphere with Operations Management Enterprise. There was a lot of confusion about what existing customer with this licenses was locked to vSphere 6.0 and older, without upgrading there licenses to Enterprise Plus. VMware has change what was there…
vSphere HTML5 Web Client v1.0
VMware has published a new Fling, a vSphere HTML5 Web Client, this is a new client for vCenter, that uses HTML5 and javascript. This is the first version of this fling and the installation is command line based configuration and installation. This version only has a limited set of functions, but it will be interesting too see…
VMware Horizon Suite 7.0 Released
VMware has released Horizon 7.0 and the Suite, this also means a new version af the Horizon Client 4.0, and other, links to release notes, at the bottum for this. Here is the what’s new in Horizon 7.0 former Horizon View: Instant Clones A new type of desktop virtual machines that can be provisioned significantly…