Tag: vCenter

Monthly Security Patch Program for the vCenter Server Appliance

vCenter vCSA VMware

With the announcement that the Windows version of vCenter will be discontinued, VMware will now release monthly Security for the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 (vCSA) Photon OS. See the official aaniuncement here: https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2017/09/monthly-security-patch-program-vcenter-server-appliance-vcsa.html The first one was released for 2 days ago. Here is a link to the documentation for vCSA Photon OS security patches: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/rn/vcenter-server-appliance-photonos-security-patches.html Future hopes: I…

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By Allan Kjaer September 23, 2017 0

Veeam B&R 9.5 support for vSphere 6.5 Update 1

6.5 ESXi vCenter Veeam Veeam Backup and Replication VMware vSAN vSphere

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…

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By Allan Kjaer August 19, 2017 0

VMware vSphere 6.5 update 1 and more Released

6.5 ESXi Replication Site Recovery Manager vCenter vCSA VMware VMware Tools vSAN

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…

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By Allan Kjaer July 28, 2017 0

vCenter Roles and Advanced Performance Charts

I havde a customer contact because, he had give a user the "Virtual Machine Power user role" on a VM folder or virtual Machine. But when the user wanted to see the Advanced Performance charts, he got an error. I have recreated this i the my test lab. the permissions looks like this. This is what…

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By Allan Kjaer July 8, 2017 0

vCSA 6.0 and earlier may use SMB1 for authentication

We have had a customer that disabled SMB1 by GPO. They were in the process of security hardening there Windows machine. But after this they could no longer login to there vCenter 6.0 with is an Appliance. The vCenter is a member of the AD domain, and they are using “Integrated AD authentication” for authentication. It look like vCenter uses…

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By Allan Kjaer June 20, 2017 1

vSAN 6.6, ESXi 6.5d, vCenter 6.5d and more Released

6.5 ESXi vCenter VMware vSAN vSphere Integrated Container

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…

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By Allan Kjaer April 18, 2017 0

VMware vCenter 6.5c Released

6.5 vCenter vCSA VMware

This is a security fix for vCenter 6.5a, addressing remote code execution vulnerability due the use of BlazeDS to process AMF3 messages See the full release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/65/vsphere-vcenter-server-650c-release-notes.html

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By Allan Kjaer April 14, 2017 0

vCenter 6.0 Update 3a Released

6.0 vCenter VMware

VMware has released vCenter 6.0 Update 3a, this fixes a critical security issue, see here: http://www.vmware.com/au/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0004.html See full release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/60/vsphere-vcenter-server-60u3a-release-notes.html Notes: Upgrading from vCenter Server 6.0 Update 3 and 6.0 Update 3a to vCenter Server 6.5 is not supported.

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By Allan Kjaer March 21, 2017 4

VMware vCenter 6.5b and ESXi 6.5 P01 Released

6.5 ESXi vCenter VMware

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…

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By Allan Kjaer March 15, 2017 0

RVTools 3.9.3 Released

ESXi vCenter VMware

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

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By Allan Kjaer March 6, 2017 0