VMware vRealize Automation 6.2 and more Released
VMware har released there new version of vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) now VMware vRealize Automation 6.2 and vRealize Automation Application Services 6.2. What's New Supportability Enhancements Improved logging and event tracking for auditing. Included centralized log collection of all cluster logs, including IaaS. Added telemetry support. Added certificate validation and simplification in vRealize Automation Management console. Integration…
VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 Released
VMware has released the new version of vCenter Operations Manager, now called vRealize Operations Manager, this is an exciting "new" product, that has a lot of changes from the old version, that I have been looking forwart to for some time. Scale-Out Deployment Architecture This release provides distributed deployment with elastic scale and higher scalability. Unified User Interface…
VMware Workstation 11 Released
VMware Workstation 11 was released yesterday. What's New New Operating System Support Support has been added for the following guest operating systems: Windows 8.1 Update Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows 10 Technical Preview (Experimental support) Ubuntu 14.10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 CentOS 7 OpenSUSE 13.2 SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 VMware Hardware Version 11 Hardware…
VMware vCenter syslog Collector
I had a customer, where the vCenter server was running out of disk space, and i turned out to be, the vCenter syslog Collector log file that was growing rapidly, and had grown to +30 GB. The solution was to disable the debugging on the service in the configuration file: %PROGRAMDATA%\VMware\VMware Syslog Collector\vmconfig-syslog.xml -<debug> <level>0</level> </debug> Changed…
Veeam Availability Suite 8 Released
Yesterday Veeam released there newest version of there Veeam Backup and Replicator 8 and VeeamOne 8. Whats new: Failover Plans Replication from backup Backup IO Control Snapshot Hunter Integration to NetApp storage Explorer for AD Explorer for SQL End-to-end encryption Cloud Connect And Many more See the Veeam whats new guide here for more and details: http://veeampdf.s3.amazonaws.com/new/veeam_backup_8_whats_new_en.pdf and…
IBM x3650 M4 ESXi installation
Today I had to install ESXi on some IBM x3650 M4 thru IMM, i uses the IBM ESXi 5.5 U1 Customized image, but it ended up in an endless reboot, where it just reset under the boot of the installation image. It turned to be a problem with the boot order, that should stand in a particular…
New Fling from VMware
There is a new fling from VMware, this one is very nice for troubleshooting, ESXTOP for the vSphere Web Client. This includes the following features: Separate tabs for CPU, memory, network and disk performance statistics Flexible batch output Flexible counter selection Advanced data grid for displaying stats (sortable columns, expandable rows, etc.) Configurable refresh rate…
HP 3PAR StoreServ VMware Best Practice part 2
I have early blogged about that HP has changed there Best Practice for 3PAR StoreServ, and there i gave the command for changing this on every server https://www.virtual-allan.com/category/hpe/hpe-3par-storeserv, This is nok efficient if you have alot of hosts, so here is the PowerCLI way for changing this on multiple hosts. If you are not using SIOC, then…
Announcement at VMworld in Barcalona
There have been a number of annoncement at VMword in Barcelona. EVO:RAIL now also delivered from HP and HDS vRealize Automation 6.2 (former vCAC) link to more information: http://www.vladan.fr vRealize Operations 6.0 (former vCOps) link to more information: http://blogs.vmware.com another link: http://www.vladan.fr/vrealize-operation-management-6-0/ vRealize Operations Management Packs link to more information: http://www.vladan.fr/vrealize-operations-management-packs/ vRealize Log insight 2.5 (former VMware vCenter Log Insight) link to more…
vSphere Web Client Short cuts
Today I was looking thru som Tweets and so one about a short cut in the vSphere Web Client and wanted to summaries some of the things i found over time: This Screenshot is from a Article by William Lam. Keyboard Combination Action Ctrl+Alt+s Quick Search Ctrl+Alt+Home OR Ctrl+Alt+1 Home Screen Ctrl+Alt+2 Virtual Infrastructure Inventory…