VMware ESXi 6.0 Express patch 11 and 6.5 Express Patch 4 Released
This releases fixes some critical bugs in vSAN All-Flash and does also contain other fixes for 6.5. See the KB for 6.0 here: https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2151043 See the KB for 6.5 here: https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2151082
HPE Customized ESXi Image, Removed from Download
There is found a critical issues in a combination of firmware and driver in the HPE customized ESXi images. så the affected versions have been removed from the VMware download page. The message stats that they will upload a new version October 6. 2017, this is for ESXi 6.5 Update 1, but it's the same for…
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 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…
Other new releases from VMware
VMware has released VMware vRealize Business for Cloud 7.3.0, and last week a new important patch for ESXi 6.0. See the release notes for VMware vRealize Business for Cloud 7.3.0 here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vRBforCloud/73/vRBforCloud-73-release-notes.html See the release notes for ESXi 6.0 Patch 5, this contains important bug fixes, see this KB's: KB2149955 and links for all the other KB's here: KB2149954
Disable Delayed Ack for iSCSI on ESXi, not always working
Some iSCSI storage system, requires that “Delayed Ack” is disabled on the ESXi hosts, like DELL Equallogic, HPE StoreVirtual and HPE StoreServ. If this is not done in the correct order this will not work completely as expected. The KB from VMware says, just to disable it, and reboot, and this will work if you wan not…
vSAN 6.6, ESXi 6.5d, vCenter 6.5d and more Released
VMware has released vSAN 6.6 which is a part of vCenter 6.5d and ESXi 6.5d. This is a very exciting new version of vSAN with many new features and enhancements. vSAN 6.6 What’s New: VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN) 6.6 introduces the following new features and enhancements: Unicast. In vSAN 6.6 and later releases, multicast is not required…
VMware has Released Patches for the VM-Escape Security Bug
VMware has released security patches for the VM-Escape Security Bug. http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0006.html Products affected is ESXi, Workstation, Player and Fusion. VMware ESXi 6.5 Downloads:https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch Documentation: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2149573 VMware ESXi 6.0 patch on top of ESXi 6.0 U3 Downloads: https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch Documentation: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2149569 VMware ESXi 6.0 patch on top of ESXi 6.0 U2 Downloads: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?productId=491&downloadGroup=ESXI60U2 (Click on the above link and scroll down…
VMware vCenter 6.5b and ESXi 6.5 P01 Released
VMware has released vCenter 6.5b and ESXi 6.5 P01 are maintenance release the fixes some bugs, and a serious security bug in vCenter. VMware vCenter 6.5b this fixes this security bug: http://www.vmware.com/au/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0004.html Updates to time zones in the Linux Guest Operating System customization. vCenter Server Linux guest operating system customization supports latest time zones. For more information on…
RVTools 3.9.3 Released
Rob de Veij, has released a new version of my favorite Tool for gathering information about vSphere enironments. This new version contains a small bug fixes. Unhandled exception in decrypt function solved It can be found here: http://www.robware.net