3 Announcement from VMware before VMworld
VMware has announced that the next number version (not update) will be the last version to have a Window vCenter version, vSphere Web Client (Adobe Flash) and support for old Linux style /O drivers. vCenter on Windows VMware introduced the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) back in version 5.0. I did not use vCSA version 5.0 and 5.1 at…
Veeam B&R 9.5 support for vSphere 6.5 Update 1
Veeam has been testing support for VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 and vSAN 6.6.1, and they now supports this combination. There is no version information for Veeam Backup & Replication, other then vSphere 6.5 is supportet from 9.5 Update 1, and vSAN 6.6 was support in 9.5 Update 2. So I will say you have to use 9.5 Update…
VMware NSX for vSphere 6.3.3 Released
VMware has released NSX for vSphere 6.3.3, this is primarily bug fixes, and a few new things. What's new: Guest Introspection supports Windows Server 2016: See "Guest Introspection for Windows" below for requirements. NSX Controller OS change: The underlying operating system for the NSX Controller is now Photon OS. See Controller Upgrade in the Upgrade Notes for NSX Components section…
VMware PowerCLI 6.5.2 released
VMware has released PoserCLI 6.5.2 thru Microsoft PowerShell Gallery. What's new: Addition of the ‘InventoryLocation’ parameter to the following cmdlets: Move-VM, Import-VApp, New-VApp Ability to mount a Content Library sourced ISO with the New-CDDrive cmdlet Updated Support Around Experimental Features See VMware Blog article about it here: https://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2017/08/new-release-powercli-652.html
VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.6.1 Released
VMware has released vRealize Operations Manager 6.6.1, this is a bug fix version. See the full release notes here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations-Manager/6.6.1/rn/vrops-661-release-notes.html
VMware vSphere 6.5 update 1 and more Released
VMware has released vCenter 6.5 Update 1, ESXi 6.5 Update 1, vSAN 6.6.1, Replication 6.5.1, Site Recovery Manager 6.5.1, and VMware Tools 10.1.10. This means that we now can upgrade from vSphere 6.0 update 3 to vSphere 6.5. vCenter 6.5 Update 1 What's new: You can run the vCenter Server Appliance GUI and CLI installers on Microsoft…
Veeam Scale-Out Repository Full Error
I had a customer that got this error “Unable to allocate resources, Error: No scale-out repository extend have sufficient disk space to store the backup file.” in Veeam, for a backup job. The problem is that there was plenty of space free on all the Scale-out extends. After some searching I found this i the…