vSAN and HBA Driver support
Be aware of using the correct SCSI/SATA driver for vSAN supported controllers. In the vSAN health check you may see something like this: After checking the Compability list, I found that this controller supported the megaraid_sas. The megaraid_sas is what’s referred to as legacy driver, so you have do disable the native driver. See the KB for instruction: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2044993 Note:…
VMware Releases this Week
This Week VMware has released some new versions of there vSphere products. vSphere 6.0 Update 1b, this is mostly security, like disabling TLS1.0, and bug fixes: vCenter 6.0 Update 1b, see release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/60/vsphere-vcenter-server-60u1b-release-notes.html ESXi 6.0 Update 1b, see release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/60/vsphere-esxi-60u1b-release-notes.html Some of the Bug fixes: Virtual machine stops responding during snapshot consolidation on ESXi 6.0…
VCS til VCSA Converter update
VMware has made a new version of the fling used for migration/convertion of Windows based vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance. This new version has the following improvements: Add support for Windows Server 2012R2 VC servers Allow specifying a different port for the SQL Server It can be found here: https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vcs-to-vcva-converter Note 1: Only works on vCenter 5.5.…
Error Installing VMRC 8.0 on Windows 10
While trying to install VMware’s VMRC 8.0 on Microsoft Windows 10 the installation fails with error “Failed to install hcmon driver”. The solution is to start the installer from an elevated command prompt "Run as Administrator", and then run the MSI packages from here.
ESXi Embedded Host Client v4
VMware updated the ESXi Embedded Host Client Fling to version 4. Here is the change log for this version, and older: New Updates in 4.0 Host Ability to change host acceptance level Ability to edit lock down exception users Ability to edit system swap settings VM VM list has been optimized for performance, reducing data download…
ESXi 5.5 Update 3b and vCenter 5.5 Update 2 problem
Yesterday I was talking to a customer,that had a problem, after they had run a remediate on a ESXi 5.5 host, and it was upgraded/patched to 5.5 Update 3b, i could not reconnect to vCenter. The vCenter was running version 5.5 Update 2. The solution was to upgrade vCenter to 5.5 Update 3b. Update: The…
New Releases from VMware
Yesterday VMware released some updated versions of there products. VMware Workstation/Workstation pro 12.1, see release notes here: https://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/workstation/12pro/workstation-121-release-notes.html VMware Fusion/Fusion pro 8.1, see release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/fusion/8/fusion-81-release-notes.html VMware vSphere vCenter 5.5 Update 3b, see release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/fusion/8/fusion-81-release-notes.html VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 Update 3b, see release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/55/vsphere-esxi-55u3b-release-notes.html
vCenter 5.5 Update 3a Released
VMware has released vCenter 5.5 Update 3a, this fixes the problem with vSphere Web Client integration plugin and Google Chrome. See the release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/55/vsphere-vcenter-server-55u3a-release-notes.html
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…