Oracle licensing and support on VMware vSphere
As every one knows any good project get stopped by licensing. Oracle are up to there old tricks of trying to get more money or making virtual environment segmented (extra vCenter på Oracle hosts. staying on 5.5). It's properly the same with Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer. Before you just do as Oracle or there auditing partners says,…
VMware Releases this Week
This Week VMware has released some new versions of there vSphere products. vSphere 6.0 Update 1b, this is mostly security, like disabling TLS1.0, and bug fixes: vCenter 6.0 Update 1b, see release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/60/vsphere-vcenter-server-60u1b-release-notes.html ESXi 6.0 Update 1b, see release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/60/vsphere-esxi-60u1b-release-notes.html Some of the Bug fixes: Virtual machine stops responding during snapshot consolidation on ESXi 6.0…
ESXi Embedded Host Client v4
VMware updated the ESXi Embedded Host Client Fling to version 4. Here is the change log for this version, and older: New Updates in 4.0 Host Ability to change host acceptance level Ability to edit lock down exception users Ability to edit system swap settings VM VM list has been optimized for performance, reducing data download…
ESXi 5.5 Update 3b and vCenter 5.5 Update 2 problem
Yesterday I was talking to a customer,that had a problem, after they had run a remediate on a ESXi 5.5 host, and it was upgraded/patched to 5.5 Update 3b, i could not reconnect to vCenter. The vCenter was running version 5.5 Update 2. The solution was to upgrade vCenter to 5.5 Update 3b. Update: The…
New Releases from VMware
Yesterday VMware released some updated versions of there products. VMware Workstation/Workstation pro 12.1, see release notes here: https://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/workstation/12pro/workstation-121-release-notes.html VMware Fusion/Fusion pro 8.1, see release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/fusion/8/fusion-81-release-notes.html VMware vSphere vCenter 5.5 Update 3b, see release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/fusion/8/fusion-81-release-notes.html VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 Update 3b, see release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/55/vsphere-esxi-55u3b-release-notes.html
Problem with the vSphere Web Client Integration Plug-In
Today I was installing a VMware vCSA 6.0 update 1, and making a vCenter Update Manager server (Windows) and installed Google Chrome to use with the vSphere Web Client. After the installation i used Chrome to login to the vSphere Web Client and on the login screen i downloaded the Client Integration Plug-In, and installed it. Afterwards could…
VMware PowerCLI 6.0 R3 Released
VMware has released a updated version of there PowerCLI 6.0, this contains som minor improvement and fixes. For more information se the release notes: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/powercli/60r3/powercli60r3-releasenotes.html
vCenter 5.5 Update 3a Released
VMware has released vCenter 5.5 Update 3a, this fixes the problem with vSphere Web Client integration plugin and Google Chrome. See the release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/55/vsphere-vcenter-server-55u3a-release-notes.html
vSphere Web Client and Google Chrome
There have been some issues getting the vSphere Web Client and vSphere Client Integration Plugin to work, can not launch the vCSA 6.0 / 6.0 Update installer, or use the "Windows session authentication" check box, mount local ISO file, import OVA/OVF, and more. VMware has an KB on this: KB2114800 The solution did not work. I had this…
ESXi 6.0 update 1a customized images
NEC and Fujitsu has this week released new Customized images based on ESXi 6.0 Update 1a. I hope that all the other hardware vendors will will release there Update 1 image and that it is based on the Update 1a. You can find them here: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/6_0 There are also some new 5.5 images: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/5_5#custom_iso Update: HP has now…