VCSA Restore Problem
I was just today doing at restore of a vCenter 7.0 from a VCSA backup, and in stage 2, when it validated the backup file and checks the newly deployed VCSA, it returned the following error/failure. Metadata and system validation failed. Error: Unknown system resource type seat Error: Unknown system resource type vtsdb This error…
VMware vRealize Suite 8.6 Released
VMware has released vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.6, vRealize Automation 8.6 + vRealize Automation Salt Config 8.6, VMware vRealize Orchestrator 8.6, vRealize Log Insight 8.6, vRealize Operations 8.6 and vRealize Network Insight 6.4. vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.6 What’s new: Cloud Proxy deployment VCF enhancements Snapshot management enhancements Outbound notification integration vRealize Operations Manager support…
VMware Fling VEBA v0.7 Released
William Lam and Michael Gasch has released version 0.7 of the VEBA Fling. What’s new. VMware Horizon Event Provider Generic CloudEvent Webhook Event Provider Day 2 Operations Improvements Monitoring Logging New Function Examples VEBA Website Update bug fixes and enhancements There at lots of optimization for Knative functions, so make sure to look into the…
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 3 Released
VMware has released vCenter 7.0 Update 3, including vSphere for Tanzu, ESXi 7.0 Update vSAN 7.0 Update 3 and Replication 8.5. Before updating/upgrading remember to check that VMware and 3. party product are supported. vCenter 7.0 Update 3 What’s new: vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation, and support for snapshots of PMem VMs: vSphere Memory Monitoring…
VMware Tools 11.3.5 Released
VMware has released VMware Tools 11.3.5, this version resolves a problem that has annoyed me for many years. If you du a upgrade/update of VMware Tools on a Windows machine, and it has a pending reboot, it will fail and the VMware Tools will, be uninstalled, which is not good, the resolution may not be…
VMware vRA 8 Subscriptions and Advanced Condition Filters
I had to do some filters on a vRealize Automation 8.5, that was based on a tag on the VM/Compute resource. There is no god documentation for that in VMware’s documentation, and searching the internet did not give anything, maybe I was just search for the correct things. So I had to dig into the…
VMware vRealize Automation 8.5.1 Released
VMware has released vRealize Automation 8.5.1. What’s new: New “Project Supervisor” role for approvals This release introduces a new out of the box role called “Project Supervisor” which can be used for approving deployment requests. Any user with this role can serve as an approver only for that specific Project. Learn more. Onboard vSphere networks…
VMware Cloud Foundation 4.3 Released
VMware has VMware Cloud Foundation 4.3 and VMware Cloud Foundation 4.3 on Dell EMC VxRail 4.3. What’s new: Flexibility in Application Virtual Networks (AVN): Application Virtual Networks (AVN)s, which include the NSX Edge Cluster and NSX network segments, are no longer deployed and configured during bring-up. Instead they are implemented as a Day-N operations in SDDC Manager,…
VMware ESX 7.0 Update 2c released
VMware has released ESXi 7.0 Update 2c (7.0.2c), this is a bug fixing version. This patch should fix the problem with boot from USB or SD-Card, where it after some time loses access to the boot device, and locks the host management, with a workaround could you in some cases vMotion the workloads to other…
VMware vRealize Automation 8.5 Released
VMware has released vRealize Automaiton 8.5. vRealize Automaiton 8.5 Project Administrator can act as Approver for all approval requests When creating an approval policy, administrators can select a Project Administrator (for the project in which the approval was triggered) as the approver. This means a policy can be created once, for the organization, or a…