VMware vRealize Network Insight 6.5 Released
VMware has released VMware vRealize Network Insight 6.5. What’s new: VMware NSX-T Monitoring and Troubleshooting Supports VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer for VMs in the vRealize Network Insight on-premises and VMware Cloud deployments. Introduces built-in and enforced protection mechanism to disable NetFlow collection on Distributed Virtual Port groups where VMware NSX-T edges are connected. Network…
VMware vRA 8 and vCenter Content Library
I was looking into using vCenter Content Librari to store Templates for deployment in vRealize Automation Cloud Tempates (Blueprints). There are 2 ways to store a Template in vCenter 7 Content Library. They can be converted to OVA/OVF templates or stored as VM Templates. I wanted to use the new VM Templates method, but I…
VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.2 and more Released
VMware has released NSX-T Data Center 3.2, NSX Intelligence 3.2 and HCX 4.3.0. NSX-T Data Center 3.2 The is a new major release, that has a lot of new features. I also have an update version of log4j vesion 2.16. What’s New: Switch agnostic distributed security: Ability to extend micro-segmentation to workloads deployed on vSphere…
VMware VEBA Fling 0.7.1 is Released
Michael Gasch and William Lam has released a new version of the VMware Event Broker Appliance version 0.7.1. I have found that Event driven automation is very exciting and can solve a lot of problems, and automate trivial tasks in the datacenter, I our company demo/test lab I have an old Appliance running and doing…
VMware vRealize Automation 8.6.1 Released
VMware has releases vRealize Automation 8.6.1 and vRealize Automation SaltStack Config 8.6.1. One of the new things is that you now can assign a Cloud Template when doing onboarding, which I have been asking for, as this will give some avenges on assigning day-2 operations easier, to VMs that has been onbaorded. What’s New Assign…
vRealize Automation 8 Forms and Dropdown External Source “oneof”
I have been looking for a way of using drop down and “oneof” lists i a vRA in a form with an external source. But the documentation is not very clear about how to do this, so i did a some investigation and test som different this, until i found the solution. i have only…
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…
ESXi Future Support for Boot on USB/SD-Card
VMware has not been very clear on the communication about, the support for booting ESXi on USB/SD-Card from the release of ESXi 7.0. In the original documentation, the requirement for installing/upgrading ESXi 7.0 it says that USB/SD-Card in support for boot media: “ESXi 7.0 requires a boot disk of at least 32 GB of persistent storage such…
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…
VMware vRealize Suite 8.6 Released
VMware has released vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.6, vRealize Automation 8.6 + vRealize Automation Salt Config 8.6, VMware vRealize Orchestrator 8.6, vRealize Log Insight 8.6, vRealize Operations 8.6 and vRealize Network Insight 6.4. vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.6 What’s new: Cloud Proxy deployment VCF enhancements Snapshot management enhancements Outbound notification integration vRealize Operations Manager support…