VMware Event Broker Appliance v0.6.0 Fling Released
Michael Gasch and William Lam has released version 0.6.0 of there VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) fling. This is one of my favorite flings at the moment, and i have been using it since version 0.4.0. What’s new: Flingen VEBA er kommer I version 0.6.0 Knative er det nu fuldt integrated PowerShell native Sockeye vCenter…
vCenter Upgrade Problem
A few weeks ago i had a problem upgrading a vCenter from version 6.7 to 7.0 update 2, and this week my good colleague Christian Møller had the same problem, at another customer. I normally uses a JSON file to do the upgrade, instead of using the wizard, as i find it easier and faster.…
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…
VUM plug-in missing i vSphere UI
Just had a vCenter 6.7 Update 3i, where I did not see the VUM plug-in. there was no information in the logs, or any other places, the only thing was that en vSphere-UI Client toke a long time to start, and it toke a long time to login to it. I could see that there…
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…
VMware Flash End of Life and Supportability
Adobe Flash Player is going End of Life (EOL) on Dec 31, 2020. The major web browser manufacturers have aligned their efforts to disable/stop running Flash applications around this date. There still customer who are using VMware products that is managed with at Adobe Flash Client, all the products now has a other solution in…
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…
Creating af Link for VMRC to a VM
Had a customer that needed the abillity to create a link/URL to connect the VMware Remote Console (VMRC), that he could send to a admin for for troubleshooting, without the use having access to the vCenter. This can be done thru the API or PowerCLI. The script is inspired by a script made by LucD.…