ESXi Future Support for Boot on USB/SD-Card
VMware has not been very clear on the communication about, the support for booting ESXi on USB/SD-Card from the release of ESXi 7.0. In the original documentation, the requirement for installing/upgrading ESXi 7.0 it says that USB/SD-Card in support for boot media: “ESXi 7.0 requires a boot disk of at least 32 GB of persistent storage such…
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 3 Released
VMware has released vCenter 7.0 Update 3, including vSphere for Tanzu, ESXi 7.0 Update vSAN 7.0 Update 3 and Replication 8.5. Before updating/upgrading remember to check that VMware and 3. party product are supported. vCenter 7.0 Update 3 What’s new: vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation, and support for snapshots of PMem VMs: vSphere Memory Monitoring…
VMware Tools 11.3.5 Released
VMware has released VMware Tools 11.3.5, this version resolves a problem that has annoyed me for many years. If you du a upgrade/update of VMware Tools on a Windows machine, and it has a pending reboot, it will fail and the VMware Tools will, be uninstalled, which is not good, the resolution may not be…
VMware ESX 7.0 Update 2c released
VMware has released ESXi 7.0 Update 2c (7.0.2c), this is a bug fixing version. This patch should fix the problem with boot from USB or SD-Card, where it after some time loses access to the boot device, and locks the host management, with a workaround could you in some cases vMotion the workloads to other…
vCSA /storage/log Running Full
I have been trouble shooting a problem with the /storage/log running full, for a customer. The problem was that the file /storage/log/vmware/vmware-sps/sps-runtime.log.stderr file was growing very large. I the log file I found the the vmware-sps (Storage Profile Service) had some problems. The errors looks like this May 31, 2021 7:18:02 AM org.bouncycastle.jsse.provider.ProvTlsClient notifyAlertRaised INFO:…
Missing the ESXi root password
I just had a support case, with customer that did not know the root password of there ESXi host because they are managed by a service provider and i needed access to one of them for some troubleshooting. My good colleague Christian Møller has blogged about how to reset the root password in this blog,…
RVTools 4.1.2 Released
Rob de Veij has just released a new version of one of my favorit tools, I uses all the time, a big thanks to Rob for this fantastic tools, for collecting a lot of information from vCenter or from a single ESXi host. What’s new: RVTools msi is now signed with a Sectigo certificate Log4net…
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 and more Released
VMware has released vCenter 7.0 update 2, ESXi 7.0 update 2 and vSphere replication 8.4.0. This release introduces some interesting new feature, linke vSphere native Key Provider, optimization for AMD EPYC CPUs and much more, see the VMware blog about the release here. For vSAN there is now HCI Mesh compute clusters do not need…
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 1c Released
VMware has released vCenter 7.0 update 1c, ESXi 7.0 1c and earlier they released VMware Tools 11.2.1. vCenter 7.0 update 1c What’s new: Physical NIC statistics: vCenter Server 7.0 Update 1c adds five physical NIC statistics:droppedRx, droppedTx, errorsRx, RxCRCErrors and errorsTx, to the hostd.log file at /var/run/log/hostd.log to enable you detect uncorrected networking errors and take necessary corrective action. Advanced Cross vCenter vMotion: With vCenter…
vCenter and Skyline Health Problem
If you enable CEIP on a vCenter, there will for the “some” installation come a alert that the UDP heartbeat not working. I have seen this in multiple installations, and do not see any disconnects, or any other problems. I have check driver/firmware for compatibility, NICs in en ESXi hosts port for packets drop/errors, the…