New patches from VMware (last week)
VMware Released some new patches for there VMware products. VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1b: Release Notes Resolved Issues The resolved issues are grouped as follows: Security Update to OpenSSL library addresses security issues OpenSSL libraries have been updated to versions openssl-0.9.8za, openssl-1.0.0m, and openssl-1.0.1h to address CVE-2014-0224. Server Configuration Host profile answer file might not be applied when you reboot…
ESXi 5.5 Update 1 and NFS APD fix
VMware has released a fix for the problem with disconneted NFS Datastores in ESXi 5.5 Update 1, with Express Patch 04. See more in the VMware KB about the problem: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2076392 And the Express patch discription can be found here: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=2077360 I have not testet this patch, so use this information as is.
vSphere Web Client optimization
The VMware vSphere Web Client is the place to be, there are more and more third party plug-ins that's only released for this, and not for the legacy old vSphere Client. So I was looking for some tricks for VMware vSphere Web Client, so I could demonstrate some nice features at my customers. First step…
Customization of the VMware vSphere Web Client not saved
Users can customize the view, of where the items are showed, and with columns to show, and hide/show “Getting Started” pages. Under the Help menu it’s possible to “Hide all Getting Started” but some time this function does not work. The solution is to delete your personal settings directory on the VMware vSphere Web Client…
VMware vSphere Web Client hiding vCenter Operations Manager Health Badge
After I have done a upgrade of a VMware vCenter Server to 5.5 Update 1a and vCenter Operations Manager 5.8.1, I was checking around to see if everything was working and after logging in to the vSphere Web Client I could not find the the health bagde. The was also a odd menu item on the…