Notes from a Virtualization Consultant
The alarms in vCenter can handle more events, then what is in the list, you just have to find the connect event sting. the first thing is to find the connect event string, also called the “EventTypeID”. This can be done thru Powershell/PowerCLI, in this example i am looking for the revert snapshot string. Before…
VMware has released NSX-T Data Center 2.5 and NSX Intelligence v1.0. NSX-T Data Center 2.5 What’s new: Container API Support New API support is available for container inventory. See the API documentation. L2 Networking NSX MTU Size Increased to 9100 Bytes – To support the need for transmitting frames with a 9000 MTU over GENEVE…
VMware Has released Workstation 15.5 and Fusion 11.5. Workstation 15.5 What’s new: Support for new guest operating systems: Windows 10 19H2 Debian 10.0/10.1 Debian 9.11 Oracle Linux 8.0 SLE 15 SP1 FreeBSD 12.0 PhotonOS 3.0 Jumbo frame support: Virtual networks can now be configured with MTU size of up to 9000 bytes. Preserve Network Configuration:…
VMware has released vRealize Network Insight 5.0. What’s new: VMware SD-WAN Support VMware SD-WANTM by VeloCloud® support for end-end network/application monitoring, troubleshooting, analytics Uber Enterprise Dashboard with map view. Site/Edge, App Dashboards and Analysis. Site/Edge Topology for LAN and WAN visibility. VMware SD-WAN Flow Analysis that includes traffic, latency and retransmit counts. Top Performance Dashboards…
VMware has released Horizon View 7.10, Dynamic Environment Manager 9.9.0, App Volumes 2.18 and ThinApp 5.2.6. Horizon View 7.10 What’s new: Horizon Connection Server On-Premises Horizon Console (HTML5-based Web Interface) There are several enhancements to Horizon Console. These include: Monitor the status of Horizon 7 components in the Horizon Console dashboard. Monitor the Connection Server…
Veeam has released Veeam ONE 9.5 Update 4a. What’s new: Platform support Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2019 is now supported. VMware vCloud Director 9.7 compatibility at the existing Update 4 feature level. VMware vSphere 6.7 U2 readiness including support for VMs with virtual hardware version 15. Dell EMC Data Domain using DD OS…
Veeam has found a new bug in VMware Change Blocking Track (CBT) that can/will corrupt backups. When doing a revert on a snapshot, the CBT “QueryChangedDiskAreas API” will return incorrect data, to the backup solution. VMware has published a KB71155 about the problem and says that this i is working as designed! So the solution/workaround…
VMware has release new versions of Enterprise PKS 1.5 and Essential PKS 1.15. Enterprise PKS 1.5 What’s new: External SAML identity provider support Support for OIDC prefixes Configurable lifetime for Kubernetes cluster access token Windows worker node support (Beta) Cluster by cluster upgrade (Beta) VMware Enterprise PKS Management Console (Beta coming soon) Kubernetes 1.14.5 Network…
VMware has released PowerCLI 11.4.0. What’s new: Add support for Horizon View 7.9 Added new cmdlets to the Storage module Updated Storage module cmdlets Updated HCX module cmdlets See VMware Blot about this release here: blog
VMware has released vCenter 6.7 Update 3, ESXi 6.7 Update 3, vSAn 6.7 Update 3 and vSphere Replication 8.2.0.1. Always remember to check for compatibility issues before upgrading/updating. vCenter 6.7 Update 3 What’s new: vCenter Server 6.7 Update 3 supports a dynamic relationship between the IP address settings of a vCenter Server Appliance and a…