Missing the ESXi root password
I just had a support case, with customer that did not know the root password of there ESXi host because they are managed by a service provider and i needed access to one of them for some troubleshooting. My good colleague Christian Møller has blogged about how to reset the root password in this blog,…
RVTools 4.1.2 Released
Rob de Veij has just released a new version of one of my favorit tools, I uses all the time, a big thanks to Rob for this fantastic tools, for collecting a lot of information from vCenter or from a single ESXi host. What’s new: RVTools msi is now signed with a Sectigo certificate Log4net…
New Veeam Releases and Cumulative Patches
Veeam has released Backup & Replication 11 Cumulative Patche 11.0.0.837_20210324, Availability Orchestrator 4.0 and Service Provider Console v5 Patch 2. Backup & Replication 11 Cumulative Patch This is version 11.0.0.837, also known as patch P20210324, this also conatins P20210319, still no support for vSphere 7.0 Update 2, this will be in the next cumulative patch.…
VMware Horizon Version 2103 Released
VMware has released Horizon 2103, that contains Horizon View, Horizon Client, Unified AccessGateway, Dynamic Environment Manager og App Volume 4. Horizon View 2103 See the release notes here. Horizon Client 2103 See the release notes for Windows Client here. See the release notes for Mac Client here. See the release notes for Linux Client here.…
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 and more Released
VMware has released vCenter 7.0 update 2, ESXi 7.0 update 2 and vSphere replication 8.4.0. This release introduces some interesting new feature, linke vSphere native Key Provider, optimization for AMD EPYC CPUs and much more, see the VMware blog about the release here. For vSAN there is now HCI Mesh compute clusters do not need…
Elasticsearch Fails to Start after vIDM Upgrade
I have just been doing a upgrade of VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) 3.3.3 to 3.3.4 from the vRealize Suite Life Cycle Manager (vRSLCM) 8.3. After the upgrade the vIDM appliance from vRSLCM it failed after a long wait, looking at the vIDM machine i could see that the Elasticsearch service did not run. After reverting…
Veeam Availability Suite v11 and more
Veeam has released the new Veeam Backup & Replication v11, Veeam One v11, Veeam Agent for Windows v5, Veeam Agent for Linux v5 and Veeam Service Provider Console v5. Veeam Backup & Replication v11 What’s new: Eliminate data loss with Veeam Continuous Data Protection Eliminate ransomware with immutable backups on a Hardened Linux Repository Eliminate downtime with Instant Recovery for NAS,…
VMware vRA 8.3 and Multi Value Picker
I had a customer, asking me how to get the multi Value Picker working i vRA, I am using a new feature in version 8.3, so this will not work in earlier versions. The use case for this was to add multiple uses to at AD Domain Group, and filter the uses, so i only…
VUM plug-in missing i vSphere UI
Just had a vCenter 6.7 Update 3i, where I did not see the VUM plug-in. there was no information in the logs, or any other places, the only thing was that en vSphere-UI Client toke a long time to start, and it toke a long time to login to it. I could see that there…
vLCM error 404 after upgrading to vCenter 7.0.1d
I have just upgrade a vCenter from 6.7 to 7.0.1d, and when i went into the “Lifecycle manager” in the vCenter client, i got this error Status 404 – https://x.x.x.x/ui/vum-ui/rest/vcenters/5a8040e2-5dca-454a-87f4-303c3cb2f9b1/compliance This is just a browser cache problem after using the browser in incognito/privatebrowsing, i did not get this error, and a restart of the browser cleared…