Author: Allan Kjaer

Veeam Released Management Pack 8.0 Update 6 cumulative patch

Veeam has released a cumulative patch for Managment Pack 8.0 Update 6, that makes it compatible with vSphere 7.0 and also fixes some problems. What’s new/fixed: Support for VMware vSphere 7.0 APIs. A fix for the issue with relation data being collected incompletely from virtual switches in environments running VMware vSphere 6.x and earlier versions. A fix…

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By Allan Kjaer May 12, 2020 0

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…

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By Allan Kjaer May 7, 2020 0

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…

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By Allan Kjaer May 3, 2020 0

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…

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By Allan Kjaer April 30, 2020 0

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…

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By Allan Kjaer April 14, 2020 0

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…

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By Allan Kjaer April 14, 2020 0

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…

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By Allan Kjaer April 7, 2020 0

Veeam B&R v10 CP 1 Released

Veeam has released Cumulative Patch 1, that fixes a number of known issues. General Defragment and compact functionality performs multiple passes on the same full backup for backup jobs that do not use per-VM backup file chains. Querying WMI API class “Backup” fails with error code 0x80131500, which affects integration such as Veeam Service Provider…

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By Allan Kjaer April 3, 2020 0

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.…

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By Allan Kjaer April 2, 2020 0