VMware Workstation 15.0.1 and Fusion 11.0.1 released
VMware has released Workstation 15.0.1 and Fusion 11.0.1, this comes with support for new Operating Systems and fix for the security issue with the VMXNET3 network adapter. New supported OS is: Ubuntu 18.10 Fedora 29 RHEL 7.6 See the release notes for Workstation 15.0.1 here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/15/rn/workstation-1501-release-notes.html See the release notes for Fusion 11.0.1 here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusion/11/rn/fusion-1101-release-notes.html
VMware ESXi 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7 patch released
VMware has released a new patch for ESXi 6.0, 6.5 og 6.7. This fixes a security issue with the VMXNET3 driver, and the 6.7 patch also contains some vSAN and replications fixes. See the ESXi 6.0 patch release notes here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/rn/esxi600-201811001.html See the ESXi 6.5 patch release notes here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/rn/esxi650-201811001.html See the ESXi 6.7 patch release notes here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/rn/esxi670-201811001.html
VMware Tools 10.3.2 Released
Last week VMware pulled VMware Tools 10.3.0 because of a potential PSOD issue when using the VMXNET3 driver, you can see the KB here: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/57796 Today VMware released VMware Tools 10.3.2, that fixes this problem. What's new: VMware Tools 10.3.2 supports the following guest operating systems: windows.iso supports Windows Vista and later. VMware Tools 10.3.0 depends on…
Windows 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 7 SP1 with VMXNET3 lost NIC
Microsoft has released new patch for Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 7 SP1, on the March 13th 2018. I some cases this patch will VM’s running these OS, loss there VMXNET3 nic, at get a new one, using DHCP. VMware has published a Blog about the problem, and in this blog there is a referance…
Microsoft Convenience Update and VMware VMXNET3 Incompatibilities
Microsoft has released a Convenience Patch, this is not compatible with VMXNET3 driver. This affects Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 7. See more information here: http://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2016/06/rush-post-microsoft-convenience-update-and-vmware-vmxnet3-incompatibilities.html
ESXi 6.0 and network performance issue
I have had a few customers that had a performance issue, when running in certain combination: ESXi 6.0 Windows 2012 / Windows 8 or later Virtual hardware 11 / Compatibility 6.0 or later VMXNET3 network card 1.6.6.0 (this is part of newer VMware Tools) or later There is VMware KB on this, that have a solution: https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2129176 I have used…