VMware Cloud Foundation and vSAN ESA (no internet connection)
I was doing at installation of VMware Cloud Foundation at a customer. This installation does not have any internet connection, Which is something that I see as a growing requirement for VMware Infrastructure at customer. This installation was with VMware Cloud foundation 5.1, and customer had purchased some vSAN ESA Ready nodes for the installation…
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 Released
VMware has released VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1, this version features some major new features and enhancements. This version has support for the new VMware vSAN ESA and vSAN Max. It is also the backbone of the future VMware Private Generative AI, for now this is only guided for installing the product at the moment, so…
VMware vSphere 8 Update 2 Released (IA)
VMware has released ESXi 8 Update 2, vCenter 8 Update 2, vSAN 8 Update 2 and vSphere with Tanzu 8 “Update 2”. NOTE: Before upgrading, remember to check if your third support vSphere 8 Update 2, like backup/monitoring/automation/integration software/services. NOTE: On October 18th the release was changed to GA. ESXi 8 Update 2 What’s new:…
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 3 Released
VMware has released vCenter 7.0 Update 3, including vSphere for Tanzu, ESXi 7.0 Update vSAN 7.0 Update 3 and Replication 8.5. Before updating/upgrading remember to check that VMware and 3. party product are supported. vCenter 7.0 Update 3 What’s new: vSphere Memory Monitoring and Remediation, and support for snapshots of PMem VMs: vSphere Memory Monitoring…
Dead SD-Card in ESXi vSAN node
Yesterday I was contacted by a customer that needed to reboot a ESXi host on a HPE server, because i needed to get the NAND reset, to clear an error in the ILO. But the customer have had some bad experience with reboot there ESXi/vSAN hosts, that they could not boot on the SD-Card ,…
VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 3 Released
VMware has released vCenter 6.7 Update 3, ESXi 6.7 Update 3, vSAn 6.7 Update 3 and vSphere Replication 8.2.0.1. Always remember to check for compatibility issues before upgrading/updating. vCenter 6.7 Update 3 What’s new: vCenter Server 6.7 Update 3 supports a dynamic relationship between the IP address settings of a vCenter Server Appliance and a…
VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 3 and vSAN Update 3 announcement
VMware has announced the upcoming vSphere 6.7 Update 3 and vSAN Update 3. What’s coming with this new version: vSphere Mulitiple NVIDIA vGPUs per VM AMD EPYC Generation 2 Support Ability to change vCenter Server PNID Support for changing the FQDN of the vCenter Dynamic DNS support Driver Enhancements VMXNET3 version 4 driver supports performance…
VMware vCenter Update Manager Scan Failure
I was troubleshooting a VMware vCenter and vSAN, that does an automated VUM scan on all vSAN cluster, to check there compliance with the vSAN baselines, and they was failing. The error in the vCenter was: “There are errors during the scan operation. Check……”. I did some checks in the vCenter appliance and the Update…
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 vSphere 6.7 Update 1 Released
VMware has released vSphere 6.7 Update 1, before installing make sure that your 3rd part application supports this new version, like image backup, management and other. This version will feature the full function HTML5 client i vCenter. Backup problem: Veeam has found some problems after updating to this version, see this forum thread: https://forums.veeam.com/vmware-vsphere-f24/vsphere-6-7-u1-support-t54673.html Veeam has a KB…