Author: Allan Kjaer

vSphere Web Client and Google Chrome

There have been some issues getting the vSphere Web Client and vSphere Client Integration Plugin to work, can not launch the vCSA 6.0 / 6.0 Update installer, or use the "Windows session authentication" check box, mount local ISO file, import OVA/OVF, and more. VMware has an KB on this: KB2114800 The solution did not work. I had this…

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By Allan Kjaer October 28, 2015 0

ESXi 6.0 update 1a customized images

NEC and Fujitsu has this week released new Customized images based on ESXi 6.0 Update 1a. I hope that all the other hardware vendors will will release there Update 1 image and that it is based on the Update 1a. You can find them here: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/6_0 There are also some new 5.5 images: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/5_5#custom_iso Update: HP has now…

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By Allan Kjaer October 24, 2015 0

ESXi 5.5 Express Patch 8 and ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 3 are Released

There have been some serious problems with the latest updates from VMware. ESXi 5.5 Update 3 there was a problem with deletion of snapshots: KB2133118 ESXi 6.0 Update 1 and earlier has a problem with network disconnection: KB2124669 This problems are solved with this new releases. ESXi 5.5 Update 3a (EP8) release notes can be found here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/55/vsphere-esxi-55u3-release-notes.html ESXi 5.5…

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By Allan Kjaer October 6, 2015 0

HP Servers loses connection to SD Card

I have some customer running ESXi installed on SD Card on HP Proliant servers Gen8 and Gen9, that has have problems where the ESXi could not write to the SD Card. Some of them got this message i the vSphere Client. Other has tried to update/upgrade hosts, and after reboot, it was still the same build. All of them…

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By Allan Kjaer September 18, 2015 1

vCenter database problem during upgrade to 6.0 Update 1

I was upgrading a vCenter from 5.5 Update 2e  to 6.0 Update 1. The first thing i did was to convert there vCenter 5.5  from Windows version to vCSA 5.5, and that went good after some certificate replacement. Then I tried to upgrade the vCSA 5.5 to vCSA 5.0 Update but, during the checks that done on the old vCSA…

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By Allan Kjaer September 18, 2015 0

VMware vSphere 5.5 update 3 released

VMware released vSphere 5.5 Update 3, that has some enhancement, and bug fixes. vCenter 5.5 Update 3: What's New vCenter Server database support: vCenter Server now supports the following external databases: Oracle 12c R1 P2 (12.1.0.2) Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 3 Increased guest operating system support:…

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By Allan Kjaer September 17, 2015 0

VMware vSphere PowerCLI 6.0 R2 Released

VMware has released a new version of there PowerCLI, this version has som updated cmdlets, and new modules/snapins. Cmdlets for VMware vRealize Operations (6.0.3 and newer) VMware vCenter Update Manager, now comes included (before upgrade, uninstalle old VUM package) Support for vCD for service providers 8.0/vCloud Air Support for SRM 6.1 NFS 4.1 cmdlets VASA and VAIO filters…

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By Allan Kjaer September 16, 2015 0

VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 1 and other new Releases

Yesterday VMware released some new versions of there vSphrer suite products. There are lots of interesting new features, and fixes in this products, looking forward to testing things out. ESXi 6.0U1: See release note for more information:http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/60/vsphere-esxi-60u1-release-notes.html vCenter Server 6.0U1: See release note for more information: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/60/vsphere-vcenter-server-60u1-release-notes.html Site Recovery Manager 6.1: See release note for more information: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/srm/61/srm-releasenotes-6-1-0.html…

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By Allan Kjaer September 11, 2015 0