Vertical Scale Up of a vIDM 3.3.4
With the latest version of vRealize Suite Life Cycle Manager (vRSLCM) it’s possible to do vertical scale of more of the products. One of my customer wanted to do a vertical scale of there vIDM version 3.3.4, but it that failed wit error code: LCMVIDM72239 in stage 9 “Disk Partition…..”. It turned out that the…
VMware Event Broker Appliance v0.6.0 Fling Released
Michael Gasch and William Lam has released version 0.6.0 of there VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) fling. This is one of my favorite flings at the moment, and i have been using it since version 0.4.0. What’s new: Flingen VEBA er kommer I version 0.6.0 Knative er det nu fuldt integrated PowerShell native Sockeye vCenter…
VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.1.2 Released
VMware has released NSX-T Data Center 3.1.2. This is release contains some minor feature and enhancement and bug fixes, and security fixes. NOTE: VMware has annonced that the N-VDS on vSphere 7.0 will be deprecated in the future releases, so it a good idea to look into the migration to the VDS 7.x switch, VMware…
VMware vRealize Suite 8.4 Released
VMware has released vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.4, vRealize Automation 8.4, vRealize Automation Saltstack 8.4, vRealize Operations 8.4, vRealize Log Insight 8.4, vRealize Orchestrator 8.4 and vRealize Network Insight 6.2. vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.4 What’s new: VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.4.0 Easy Installer support vRealize Automation Salt Stack Config Standalone support VMware Identity…
vCenter Upgrade Problem
A few weeks ago i had a problem upgrading a vCenter from version 6.7 to 7.0 update 2, and this week my good colleague Christian Møller had the same problem, at another customer. I normally uses a JSON file to do the upgrade, instead of using the wizard, as i find it easier and faster.…
Missing the ESXi root password
I just had a support case, with customer that did not know the root password of there ESXi host because they are managed by a service provider and i needed access to one of them for some troubleshooting. My good colleague Christian Møller has blogged about how to reset the root password in this blog,…
RVTools 4.1.2 Released
Rob de Veij has just released a new version of one of my favorit tools, I uses all the time, a big thanks to Rob for this fantastic tools, for collecting a lot of information from vCenter or from a single ESXi host. What’s new: RVTools msi is now signed with a Sectigo certificate Log4net…
VMware Horizon Version 2103 Released
VMware has released Horizon 2103, that contains Horizon View, Horizon Client, Unified AccessGateway, Dynamic Environment Manager og App Volume 4. Horizon View 2103 See the release notes here. Horizon Client 2103 See the release notes for Windows Client here. See the release notes for Mac Client here. See the release notes for Linux Client here.…
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 and more Released
VMware has released vCenter 7.0 update 2, ESXi 7.0 update 2 and vSphere replication 8.4.0. This release introduces some interesting new feature, linke vSphere native Key Provider, optimization for AMD EPYC CPUs and much more, see the VMware blog about the release here. For vSAN there is now HCI Mesh compute clusters do not need…
Elasticsearch Fails to Start after vIDM Upgrade
I have just been doing a upgrade of VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) 3.3.3 to 3.3.4 from the vRealize Suite Life Cycle Manager (vRSLCM) 8.3. After the upgrade the vIDM appliance from vRSLCM it failed after a long wait, looking at the vIDM machine i could see that the Elasticsearch service did not run. After reverting…