vCSA 6.0 update 1 Error “503 service Unavailable”
Today I had a call from a customer that could not get into there vCenter. When they opened the web backup https://vCenter.domain.local they got this message: 503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http20NamedPipeServiceSpecE:0x7f32a40624c0] _serverNamespace = / _isRedirect = false _pipeName =/var/run/vmware/vpxd-webserver-pipe) This i normal during restart of the vCSA or vCenter server. but…
vSphere HTML5 Web Client v1.1
VMware has publish a update version of the vSphere HTML5 Web Client Fling. Wha'ts new in this version: Add a new CD/DVD drive to a new or existing VM Add a new network adapter to a new or existing VM Add a new hard disk to a new or existing VM Create a VM from a…
vSphere HTML5 Web Client v1.0
VMware has published a new Fling, a vSphere HTML5 Web Client, this is a new client for vCenter, that uses HTML5 and javascript. This is the first version of this fling and the installation is command line based configuration and installation. This version only has a limited set of functions, but it will be interesting too see…
vSphere 6.0 Update 2 Released
ESXi 6.0 U2 New features: VMware host client – back to the good old web client from ESX version 1.x and 2.x, or maybe not this is a HTML5 Client. High Ethernet link speed – ESXi 6.0 U2 supports 25 G and 50 G ethernet link speeds VAIO Enhancements (vSphere API for I/O Filtering) –…
VMware vRealize Log Insight for vCenter
VMware announced that all users with a vCenter Server License are entitled to use their vCenter Server License to get a 25-OSI pack for vRealize Log Insight for vCenter, at no charge. For more information on this see: http://blogs.vmware.com/management/2016/02/vrealize-log-insight-for-vcenter-faq.html
Veeam One and vCenter 5.5 Update 3
If you are using Veeam One 8.0 and has updated vCenter to version 5.5 update 3, you will get an error that it can't collect performance data. This i due to a change in vCenter that limits the query size. Veeam has a hotfix to solve this problem Veeam One Build 8.0.1731: https://www.veeam.com/kb2071
VMware Releases this Week
This Week VMware has released some new versions of there vSphere products. vSphere 6.0 Update 1b, this is mostly security, like disabling TLS1.0, and bug fixes: vCenter 6.0 Update 1b, see release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/60/vsphere-vcenter-server-60u1b-release-notes.html ESXi 6.0 Update 1b, see release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/60/vsphere-esxi-60u1b-release-notes.html Some of the Bug fixes: Virtual machine stops responding during snapshot consolidation on ESXi 6.0…
VCS til VCSA Converter update
VMware has made a new version of the fling used for migration/convertion of Windows based vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance. This new version has the following improvements: Add support for Windows Server 2012R2 VC servers Allow specifying a different port for the SQL Server It can be found here: https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vcs-to-vcva-converter Note 1: Only works on vCenter 5.5.…
Error Installing VMRC 8.0 on Windows 10
While trying to install VMware’s VMRC 8.0 on Microsoft Windows 10 the installation fails with error “Failed to install hcmon driver”. The solution is to start the installer from an elevated command prompt "Run as Administrator", and then run the MSI packages from here.
ESXi 5.5 Update 3b and vCenter 5.5 Update 2 problem
Yesterday I was talking to a customer,that had a problem, after they had run a remediate on a ESXi 5.5 host, and it was upgraded/patched to 5.5 Update 3b, i could not reconnect to vCenter. The vCenter was running version 5.5 Update 2. The solution was to upgrade vCenter to 5.5 Update 3b. Update: The…