VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 1 Released
VMware has released vCenter 7.0 Update 1 and ESXi 7.0 Update 1. VMware vCenter 7.0 Update 1 What’s new: Inclusive terminology: In vCenter Server 7.0 Update 1, as part of a company-wide effort to remove instances of non-inclusive language in our products, the vSphere team has made changes to some of the terms used in the vSphere Client. APIs and CLIs…
VMware vCenter Server 7.0.0d Released
VMware has released vCenter Server 7.0.0d, this fixes a problem with high CPU usage on the vCenter server 7.0.0c. After you upgrade your vCenter Server system to vCenter Server 7.0.0c, CPU usage continuously stays high. On a single core, CPU usage might spike up to 100% for hours. The Workload Control Plane service causes the…
New Releases from VMware
VMware has released vCenter Server 6.7 Update 3j, ESXi 6.5 Update 3 PO5, ESXi 6.7 Update 3 Build 16713306 and VMware Tools 11.1.5. vCenter 6.7 Update 3j What’s new: vCenter Server 6.7 Update 3j adds support to SMTP authentication in the vCenter Server Appliance to enable sending alerts and alarms by email in secure mode.…
VMware vCenter 7.0.0c Released
VMware has released vCenter 7.0.0c, this has updated kubernetes services. What’s new: Supervisor cluster: new version of Kubernetes, support for custom certificates and PNID changes Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service for vSphere: new features added for cluster scale-in, networking and storage Network service: new version of NCP Registry service: new version of Harbor See the release…
VMware vCenter 7.0b Released
VMware has released vCenter 7.0b, this has bug and security fixes but also new features. What’s new: New alarms in vCenter Server Show only rollup updates See the release notes here.
vCenter Server Appliance /storage/log Full
On the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) i have mulitple times seen that the /storage/log runs full, there are multiple reasons that this happens. But lately the most common reason, is that if you creates support bundles, they are stored in “/storage/log” on the appliance, the problem is that this do not get deleted automatically, this…
vCenter 7.0 Update 0a Released
VMware has released vCenter 7.0 Update 0a, and this also includes an update to vSphere with Kubernetes. vCenter 7.0 Update 0a This fixes a problem with a conflict between Lifecycle Manager, and vSAN File Services. See the release notes here. vSphere with Kubernetes New Features Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service for vSphere: rolling upgrade and services…
Veeam Released Management Pack 8.0 Update 6 cumulative patch
Veeam has released a cumulative patch for Managment Pack 8.0 Update 6, that makes it compatible with vSphere 7.0 and also fixes some problems. What’s new/fixed: Support for VMware vSphere 7.0 APIs. A fix for the issue with relation data being collected incompletely from virtual switches in environments running VMware vSphere 6.x and earlier versions. A fix…
vCenter Appliance 6.5 upgrade to 6.7 Error
I was upgrading a vCenter today, that was running on a Standalone ESXi host, that was using the free Hypervisor license. I always uses the CLI and JSON file for upgrading vCenter servers, since it’s easy to run the upgrade multiple times, without going thru the GUI. Bu when i did at this customer, I…
RVTools 4.0.4 released
Rob de Veij has released a new version of one of my favorit tools for VMware vSphere. Thanks to Rob for this great tool. What’s new: Upgraded RVTools solution to use VMware vSphere Management SDK 7.0 Upgraded RVTools solution to use CIS REST API, available since vSphere 6.5, to get tag information vInfo tab page…