ESXi 6 Update 2, PDL errors on VVOL PE device
I was upgrading a customer to vSphere 6.0 Update 2, The vCenter went fine. but when i came to upgrade the ESXi hosts they hags when it comes to the massage "About to install" at the Console When looking at the logger screen "ALT+F12" it looks like this: And in the vmkernel.log there was a lot of this:…
vSphere HTML5 Web Client v1.2
WOW, VMware is really fast at updating there vSphere HTML5 Web Client. New Features Browse files in a Datastore ([Datastore] -> Manage -> Files) Download a file from a Datastore URL redirects: your old bookmarked URLs should now work, simplifying adoption of h5client. Examples: https://[h5client ip or domain name]/vsphere-client https://[h5client ip or domain name]:9443/vsphere-client https://[ip or domain…
vSphere Enterprise licenses EOA
VMware has announced that vSphere Enterprise licenses is EOA June 30, 2016, this also includes Operations Management Standard and VMware vSphere with Operations Management Enterprise. There was a lot of confusion about what existing customer with this licenses was locked to vSphere 6.0 and older, without upgrading there licenses to Enterprise Plus. VMware has change what was there…
vSphere HTML5 Web Client v1.1
VMware has publish a update version of the vSphere HTML5 Web Client Fling. Wha'ts new in this version: Add a new CD/DVD drive to a new or existing VM Add a new network adapter to a new or existing VM Add a new hard disk to a new or existing VM Create a VM from a…
vSphere HTML5 Web Client v1.0
VMware has published a new Fling, a vSphere HTML5 Web Client, this is a new client for vCenter, that uses HTML5 and javascript. This is the first version of this fling and the installation is command line based configuration and installation. This version only has a limited set of functions, but it will be interesting too see…
RVTools 3.8 is Released
One of m favorite tools for getting information about an vSphere environment is RVTools, is now released in version 3.8. Thanks to Rob de Veij for this great tool that's free of charge. What's new in version 3.8: VI SDK reference changed from 5.5 to 6.0 on vInfo tab page new field: ChangeVersion unique identifier for a given…
vSphere 6.0 Update 2 Released
ESXi 6.0 U2 New features: VMware host client – back to the good old web client from ESX version 1.x and 2.x, or maybe not this is a HTML5 Client. High Ethernet link speed – ESXi 6.0 U2 supports 25 G and 50 G ethernet link speeds VAIO Enhancements (vSphere API for I/O Filtering) –…
vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 End of General Support this Year
2016/8/24 VMware will end there general Support for vSphere 5.0 and 5.1, so if you are still using this versions you should begin to plan the next upgrade to 6.0 or 5.5. For more information on VMware product lifecycle see: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/support/Product-Lifecycle-Matrix.pdf Other products that will expire 2016: VMware App Volumes 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 – 2016/12/09 VMware Data…
vSAN and HBA Driver support
Be aware of using the correct SCSI/SATA driver for vSAN supported controllers. In the vSAN health check you may see something like this: After checking the Compability list, I found that this controller supported the megaraid_sas. The megaraid_sas is what’s referred to as legacy driver, so you have do disable the native driver. See the KB for instruction: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2044993 Note:…
vSAN issue “Host cannot communicate with all other….”
There is a bug in vSphere 6.0 Update 1b that could give som false warnings, like “Host cannot communicate with all other nodes in the Virtual SAN enabled cluster”. The problem and solution can be found in this KB: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=2143214 One of my colleagues tried this but it does not always work, and we had to leave the customers…