vSphere 6.5 – Virtualization, DBaaS & Whatever Crosses My Mind

VMware vCenter Server 6.5 U2 & ESXi 6.5 U2 Released

magander — Fri, 04 May 2018 16:30:00 +0000

Yesterday, 2018-05-03, VMware released an update to vSphere 6.5 meaning the latest release is now vSphere 6.5 Update 2. This is little more than two weeks since the vSphere 6.7 release and some features from vSphere 6.7 are backported to 6.5 U2. The most important things is vCenter Server single instance solution meaning no more …

VMware ESXi Upgrade 6.0 To 6.5 – Conflicting VIBs

magander — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 12:40:51 +0000

A few days ago I was contacted by a customer I used to work with before I joined Nutanix. They were in the process of upgrading their vSphere environment from 6.0 to 6.5 and had ran into a problem with the ESXi upgrade. After creating a vSphere Update Manager (VUM) baseline with the HP ESXi …

Heads Up! Shockwave Flash Crashes In VMware vSphere Web Client 6.x

magander — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:25:38 +0000

Updated 2017-10-19 – Additional information and a fix in the Adobe forum. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Just a heads up that all versions of the vSphere Web Client 6.5 (and also at least vSphere Web Client Version 6.0.0 Build 361739) will crash with the below error if using Adobe Shockwave Flash version 27.0.0.170: Shockwave Flash has crashed To …

In Next Major vSphere Release VMware Plans to Deprecate……..

magander — Sun, 27 Aug 2017 13:52:38 +0000

As you might have seen over the last couple of days VMware has announced that a few components and or features will be deprecated in the next major release of vSphere. The next release of vSphere will be a terminal release and the information in this blog post does not apply. vCenter Server for Windows …

Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5 Released

magander — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 07:21:42 +0000

Yesterday, 2017-08-22, Zerto released a new version of their Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR) and there are quite a enhancements and new features available. As I know many of my readers will be at VMworld next week it makes sense to step by the Zerto boot #630 and check out all goodness. Below is a short summary …

VMware vCenter Server 6.5 U1 & ESXi 6.5 U1 Released

magander — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 11:06:22 +0000

Yesterday, 2017-07-27, VMware released an update to vSphere 6.5 meaning the latest release is now vSphere 6.5 Update 1. The release includes quite a few driver updates for ESXi and vCenter Server got a few new enhancements & features which I know a few of my customers have been waiting for such as: External database …

NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7 Released

magander — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:36:27 +0000

So it has been a few months since the Nakivo Backup & Replication version 7 beta program started and today the software was released. I have written about all the new features and functionality included in this release before but I’ll include the summary further down in this blog post anyway. To get started click here or the …

Manage vSphere Virtual Machines in Nutanix PRISM

magander — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:59:26 +0000

With the Nutanix AOS 5.0 release it is now possible to manage VMware vSphere ESXi based virtual machines (VMs) via Nutanix PRISM. VM management is controlled via the VM section in PRISM which you’ll reach by: Selecting VM in the main drop down menu Click Table and you’ll see all the VMs in table format. Both …

VMware vSphere vCenter Server 6.5 Appliance Installation & Configuration

magander — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 09:00:21 +0000

Basic documentation about my lab environment VMware vCenter Server 6.5 installation and configuration. I decided to run the UI based installation form my Windows 8 based VDI. However, there is a cli option available for the deployment and a blog post about that can be found here. Hang on for a lot of print screens:) Deployment/Installation …

VMware vCenter Server 6.5 Resource Requirements

magander — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 17:04:02 +0000

Just a quick blog post about the vCenter Server 6.5 Appliance resource requirements in terms of vCPUs, RAM and Storage per deployment size option. And yes, this is mostly for my personal documentation purposes since the information can also be found in the VMware vSphere 6.5 official documentation, Anyway, the following Deployment Sizes are available: …

VMworld Barcelona 2016 – Day 1 Summary

magander — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 23:16:08 +0000

So today, 2016-10-18, was my first day at VMworld and it started with being stuck in traffic for about 30 min so i made it to the general session about 20 seconds before it started…. I’ll structure my daily summaries, yes i’ll keep that concept as well, this year pretty much same way as last year …

vMotion – A general system error occurred

magander — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 12:57:30 +0000

Updated 20170127 Apparently this applies to vSphere 6.5 as well according to a comment below. Thanks Joe for letting us know ———————————————————————– The other day i had an issue with vMotion migrations in my vSphere environment running the following versions: vCenter Server 5.5.0 build 2183111 ESXi 5.5.0 build 2143827 The error i was seeing happened at …