VMware Appliances and Backup Strategies
VMware has are using a lot of Virtual Appliances to there products, but there are different backup strategies for them. I have compiled a list of some of them here and their options. Supports quiesced snapshot: Most appliances supports this, but not all, always check before usingquisced image backup. vSphere vCenter Appliance 6.0 and 6.5 6.0 : https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60 6.5…
VMware vRealize Network Insight 3.3 Released
VMware has released vRealize Network Insight 3.3 with support NSX 6.3 and vSphere 6.5, and more. NSX 6.3.1 also released. What's new: Enhanced Event Management Experience and new NSX events New configuration and inter-communication checks have been added for checking and reporting on NSX manager, controller, and data plane services deployment and production issues. Additionally, all events…
VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.5 and other Released
VMware has released there vRealize Operations Manager 6.5, vRealize Log Insight 4.3, vRealize Business for Cloud 7.2.1 and NSX 6.3.1. vRealize Operations Manager 6.5 Whats new in the version: Additional monitoring capabilities Adds ability to increase memory and increase the scope of monitoring within the same environment. Enables you to monitor larger environments with the same footprint through platform…
VMware NSX for vSphere 6.2.5 Released
VMware has released NSX for vSphere 6.2.5, this is a maintenance release that contains bug fixes. vSphere 6.5 is not supported. For full list of changes and resolved issues see the release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/nsx/6.2.5/releasenotes_nsx_vsphere_625.html
VMware NSX 6.2.4 Released
A few weeks ago VMware pulled NSX 6.2.3 because there was some major problems with DFW, and they have noew released this new version that fixes this problem, plus fixes a security issue. See the release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/nsx/6.2.4/releasenotes_nsx_vsphere_624.html There is also an new plugin to vRealize Orchestrator, versio 1.0.4. See the release notes here.http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/nsx/suite/releasenotes_nsx_vro_104.html
New Releases and Flings from VMware
VMware has released a few new releases of there products. Releases: vRealize Log Insight 3.2.2, this is a maintenance release, it now supports vSphere 5.x vCenter license keys, and more. See release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/LogInsight/33/log-insight-332-release-notes.html NSX for vSphere 6.2.3, this is a maintenance release with a lot of fixes and new features, it is now has a default…
vShield endpoint / NSX file introspection and VMware Tools 10.x
There might be a performance problem when using vShield endpoint / NSX file introspection, with Trend Micro Deep Security, and other hypervisor virus scanner, when using VMware Tools version 10.0, 10.5 and 10.6. See the KB here: https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2144236 VMware has released a new version of VMware Tools 10.8, that resolves this problem: Release notes: https://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vmwaretools/1008/vmware-tools-1008-release-notes.html
VMware NSX 6.2 Released
VMware has released NSX 6.2, which contains alot of enhancement and new features, some of them are: NSX 6.2 with vSphere 6.0 supports Cross vCenter NSX Consistent firewall policy across multiple vCenters Cross vCenter vMotion with DFW Universal Security Groups Universal Logical Switch (ULS) Universal Distributed Logical Router (UDLR) New traceflow troubleshooting tool Flow monitoring…