Virtual Machines Hangs
i been helping a customer troubleshooting a problem where some virtual machines was hanging. The VM’s just stopped answering on the network, and could not be accessed in the console. The VM’s hang for around <1 minut, but some time i after a few seconds, it hang again, and could repeat this over a long…
ESXi 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7 New Builds Released
VMware has released new builds of ESXi 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7, this are bug fixes, and security fixes, including new Intel CPU microcodes. The ESXi 6.7, also includes a fix for “Sensor -1 type hardware health alarms” that may fill the vCenter SEAT database disk, and other fixes. The ESXi 6.0 also includes a fix…
Dead SD-Card in ESXi vSAN node
Yesterday I was contacted by a customer that needed to reboot a ESXi host on a HPE server, because i needed to get the NAND reset, to clear an error in the ILO. But the customer have had some bad experience with reboot there ESXi/vSAN hosts, that they could not boot on the SD-Card ,…
VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 3 Released
VMware has released vCenter 6.7 Update 3, ESXi 6.7 Update 3, vSAn 6.7 Update 3 and vSphere Replication 8.2.0.1. Always remember to check for compatibility issues before upgrading/updating. vCenter 6.7 Update 3 What’s new: vCenter Server 6.7 Update 3 supports a dynamic relationship between the IP address settings of a vCenter Server Appliance and a…
VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 3 and vSAN Update 3 announcement
VMware has announced the upcoming vSphere 6.7 Update 3 and vSAN Update 3. What’s coming with this new version: vSphere Mulitiple NVIDIA vGPUs per VM AMD EPYC Generation 2 Support Ability to change vCenter Server PNID Support for changing the FQDN of the vCenter Dynamic DNS support Driver Enhancements VMXNET3 version 4 driver supports performance…
VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 3 and more Released
VMware has released vCenter 6.5 Update 3, ESXi 6.5 Update 3,vSphere Replication 6.5.1.4, App Volumes 2.17 and User Environment Manager 9.8.0. vCenter 6.5 Update 3 Important: Before updating to vSphere 6.5 U3, make sure to read the release Notes. Upgrades and migrations from vCenter Server 6.5 Update 3 to vCenter Server 6.7, including Update 1,…
Remove vShield epsec-mux driver from ESXi 6.7
I was upgrading some ESXi hosts today, from 6.0 and to 6.7 Update, and afterward i found that they had en vShield File Introspection driver installed, so i tried to remove it from command line with: But it did not work, I got a error back that looks a little like this. Error in running…
VMware Relaesed new ESXi Security patches
VMware released new version of ESXi 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7 that contains a security fix to yet another security bug in the Intel CPU architecture. There are also microcode update include for some of the affected Intel CPU’s, other CPU’s will require patches delivered from the hardware vendors. There is also a update to vCenter…
vSphere 6.7 Update 2 and updated vRealize Suite 2018 Released
VMware has released a new versions for there vRealize Suite 2018 (Operations Manager 7.5, Automation 7.6, vRealize Orchestrator 7.6, Log Insight 4.8, Business for Cloud 7.6 and vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 2.1) and vSphere 6.7 Update 2 (vCenter 6.7 Update 2, ESXi 6.7 Update 2 and Replication 8.1.2). Before updating/upgrading, check your compatibility and Interoperability…
New Announcements from VMware
VMware has today announced vSphere 6.7 Update 2, vRealize Operations 7.5, vRealize Automation 7.6, vRealize Lifecycle Manager 2.1, vRealize Network Insight 4.1, and some new support Persistent Memory Technology, in vSphere 6.7. vSphere 6.7 Update 2 What’s new: Deprecation of external PSC vCenter linked mode topology view Overview of vCenter and PSCs Health Replication modified…