There are new Lab available on VMware HOL
VMware has retired some of there old Hands-on Labs, and release about 40 new ones. Here is a list of the new labs: vSphere 6 Challenge Lab VMware vCloud Air – Jump Start for vSphere Admins VMware vCloud Air – Data Center Extension VMware vCloud Air – Manage Your Cloud VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery…
VMware Horizon 7.0.2 Released
VMware has released Horizon 7.0.2, this is a maintenance version, that also have some new features, and os support. What's New VMware Horizon 7 version 7.0.2 provides the following new features and enhancements: VMware Blast policy View administrators can configure the H.264 Quality Blast policy settings to specify the image quality for the remote display…
VMware has released vCenter migration tool
VMware has released a vCenter Migration Tool to migrate Windows vCenter Server 5.5 to vCSA 6.0. I recommend all my customer to use the vCSA 6.0 when posible, so this is great news, I have been using the Fling, but VMware removed the download from the Fling site, so looking forward to testing this GA version. It only need's…
VMware Workstation Pro 12.5 and Fusion 8.5 Released
VMware has released Workstation Pro/Player 12.5 and Fusion 8.5. What's New This release of VMware Fusion is a free upgrade for all VMware Fusion 8 users, it adds support for the following operating systems: macOS Sierra (10.12) Windows 10 Anniversary Update Windows Server 2016 (Fusion 8.5 only) And bug fixes. See the release notes for…
New Releases and Flings from VMware
VMware has released a new version of the VMware Remote Console 9.0. What's new: VMware Remote Console 9.0 supports: Linux OS Auto-update for Apple OS X Localization for German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Russian, Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Traditional See the full release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vmrc/90/vmrc-90-release-notes.html New flings updates: vSphere HTML5 Wen Client 2.3, it can be found here: https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vsphere-html5-web-client…
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
HPE StoreServ/3Par iSCSI high latency
I have a customer who has a new HPE StoreServ 8200 All-Flash (Formerly HP/3Par), efter the installation I noticed that the storage had a high latency for a All Flash storage array, So I was talking with my colleague who did the installation of the HPE StoreServ installation if there was any problem with the Storage Array,…
Intel Xeon CPU E5-26xx v4 PSOD
There is a bug in the new Broadwell CPU's from Intel that can create PSOD on ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 and i looks like this. There is an VMware KB on this Issue: https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2146388 The solution is a firmware/Bios upgrade from the hardware vendor, I haven't check if there are any of the hardware vendors that…
New Releases from VMware and Flings
VMware has released some new versions for some of there vRealize suite products. VMware vRealize Automation 7.1.0 What's New The vRealize Automation 7.1 release includes resolved issues and the following changes. Streamlined installation process using a silent installer. Agent and prerequisite command line interface. Migration tool to move data from a source vRealize Automation 6.2.x environment…
VMware Releases and Flings
VMware has released a new version of vRealize Log Insight 3.6. This version has some enhancements and preview features. vRealize Operations Manager Integration Enhancements Enhanced Alerting Alerts sent to vRealize Operations Manager now contain the same metadata as email alerts. Auto Cancel Alerts User alerts to vRealize Operations Manager can be set to auto cancel in…