vSAN Health and Controller firmware N/A
With VMware vSAN 6.6 the vSAN health monitor can check the Storage Controller firmware level, But this does require that controller management tools are installed. If they are not installed you will see this. The tools for Lenovo M5210 Controller is not in the Lenovo customized image, so you have to install this. After downloading this from…
VMware vCenter 6.5 Update 1d and ESXi 6.5 Update 1 Patch 2 Released
VMware has released vCenter 6.5 Update 1d, this is a security fix version. See the full release notes here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/rn/vsphere-vcenter-server-65u1d-release-notes.html ESXi 6.5 Update 1 Patch 2 contains bug and security fixes.Including fixes for vSAN. See this KB for more information: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2151102
VMware ESXi 6.0 Express patch 11 and 6.5 Express Patch 4 Released
This releases fixes some critical bugs in vSAN All-Flash and does also contain other fixes for 6.5. See the KB for 6.0 here: https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2151043 See the KB for 6.5 here: https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2151082
VMware vSphere 6.5 update 1 and more Released
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…
PowerCLI 6.5.1 Released
VMware has released PowerCLI 6.5.1, this new version, adds support for new commands til DRS groups/Rules and vSAN 6.6. See the VMware blog about it here: https://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2017/04/new-release-powercli-6-5-1.html There is no installer for this version, it is installed thru PowerShell Gallery, here is a blog on how to install: https://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2017/04/powercli-install-process-powershell-gallery.html After I have installed this i made a a…
vSAN 6.6, ESXi 6.5d, vCenter 6.5d and more Released
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…
vSAN error “Cannot complete file creation operation”
My Colleague Anders Hansen was enabling VSAN on a cluster. After the creation 4 out of 5 nodes showed this error,, when running “VM Creation test”. ”Cannot complete file creation operation.Failed to place witnesses. There are currently 0 usuable disks and 1 more usable disks are needed in witness node. Failed to create object” After he contacted…
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) –…
vSAN and HBA Driver support
Be aware of using the correct SCSI/SATA driver for vSAN supported controllers. In the vSAN health check you may see something like this: After checking the Compability list, I found that this controller supported the megaraid_sas. The megaraid_sas is what’s referred to as legacy driver, so you have do disable the native driver. See the KB for instruction: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2044993 Note:…
vSAN issue “Host cannot communicate with all other….”
There is a bug in vSphere 6.0 Update 1b that could give som false warnings, like “Host cannot communicate with all other nodes in the Virtual SAN enabled cluster”. The problem and solution can be found in this KB: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=2143214 One of my colleagues tried this but it does not always work, and we had to leave the customers…