vCenter Permissions problem
This week I had a colleague call me, because he had a problem at a customer with some permissions. The customer had created a Helpdesk/support role, for one of there system providers, this role only allowed them to access virtual machines, doing things like power on, power off, reset, mount CD-Rom, and thing like this. They…
New version of vSphere Web Client PowerShell Action plugin
There is a new version of the VMware vSphere Web Client PowerAction plugin 1.5, this new version supports vSphere 6.0, PowerCLI 6.0 and .Net 4.5. If you already using the old version 1.0, you have to uninstall this first, and move the scripts to a new location. This can be found on VMware Flings: https://labs.vmware.com/flings/poweractions-for-vsphere-web-client I have…
vRealize Operations for Horizon now with support for Citrix XenApp
VMware has med som updates to there vRealize Operations for Horizon, that makes it possible to get performance/health data from Citrix XenApp 6.5. For more information see this VMware Blog article: http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2015/06/vrealize-operations-horizon-just-got-whole-lot-better.html
VMware vRealize operation Manager 6.0.2 Release
VMware has released en updated version of vRealize Operations, this contains updates for all areas of the product, but no new features. For more information see the release notes: https://www.vmware.com/support/vrops/doc/vrops-602-release-notes.html
VMware has released Workstation 11.1.2 and Fusion 7.1.2
This 2 new versions is just bug fixes. Workstation 11.1.2 release notes: https://www.vmware.com/support/ws/doc/workstation-1112-release-notes.html Fusion 7.1.2 release notes: https://www.vmware.com/support/fusion/doc/fusion-712-release-notes.html
Veeam has released update 2b for Backup & Replication 8.0
This is a minor update for the Veeam Backup & Replication Update 2. the updated release notes can be found here: http://www.veeam.com/kb2024 One of the things that is fixed is a problem with VDDK 6.0 and Hot-Add. http://www.veeam.com/kb2042
HP Smart Array p440ar and vSphere 6.0 patches
I had a customer/colleague that was upgrading there HP DL380p Gen9 server with local datastores on a HP Smart Array p440ar, with the new patches from VMware, they was doing this manually, from command line. After a reboot the local storage was not accessible, and the Controller was not visible any more. The problem is that the new patches…
VMware Released Horizon View 6.1.1
Last week VMware released a new version of VMware Horizon View 6.1.1: See the release notes here: https://www.vmware.com/support/horizon-view/doc/horizon-611-view-release-notes.html
Veeam has Released Update 2a for backup & Replication 8.0
This is a minor update for the Veeam Backup & Replication Update 2. the updated release notes can be found here: http://www.veeam.com/kb2024
vSAN problem
I had a customer that is running vSAN, and had recently upgraded to vSphere 6.0. They wanted to upgrade VMFS-L to vSAN-FS (the new drive format). But they could not do this because 1 host had 2 defekt disk groups on it. The host had been a member of an old vSAN setup, that was scratched. So we…