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vSphere 6.7 – Overview, Videos and Download Links

GrahamApril 18, 2018April 17, 2018

VMware has just made vSphere 6.7 Generally Available! What's new? As part of vSphere, we have updates to all core components, notably: ESXi vCenter Server Appliance Update Manager HTMl5 Client This week has also seen vRealize Operations & vSAN announce version 6.7 also. What am I most interested in?...

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vSphere 6.7 – HTML5 Update Manager (VUM) Walkthrough

GrahamApril 17, 2018

If you haven't already check my earlier blog post on some of the new features of Update Manager 6.7: vSphere 6.7 - ESXi Upgrade Enhancements (No hardware reboots) Finally, we are able to use Update Manager via the HTML5 UI! Not only that but the workflow is cleaner and smoother than...

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vSphere 6.7 – Fault Tolerance – What’s New? – New Limits and APD Integration

GrahamApril 17, 2018

Physical processors are getting more powerful & supporting more cores. This means that previous vNUMA considerations for Virtual Machines are changing. Essentially Virtual Machines with more cores is possible without breaching vNUMA boundaries. This results in us being able to run VMs with more cores, for example, requirements for mission-critical...

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vSphere 6.7 – Update Manager – ESXi Upgrade Enhancements (No hardware reboots)

GrahamApril 17, 2018April 17, 2018

So vSphere 6.7 has been announced but what does this mean for Update Manager? Single reboot on upgrades Historically (Prior to 6.7) when upgrading a host Update Manager will trigger a reboot to prepare the host and then the installer will trigger another upgrade. These reboots add time to the maintenance...

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VMware News – April 2018 – New vSphere soon, vROps, Config Maximums Tool!

GrahamApril 14, 2018April 16, 2018

Quite a lot has been going on in April for VMware, so I've put a post together with notable news: vSphere - Next version The next version of vSphere looks to be coming soon. There has been some talk about its upcoming release in the public domain. I'm a Beta...

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Internal error when upgrading vCenter Server / PSC 6.0 to 6.5

GrahamMarch 17, 2018March 18, 2018

While everyone upgrades to the latest release of vSphere be aware that there are a few minor catches along the way. A couple I've seen this week include the vague error "An internal error has occurred" This seems to happen more on stage 2 of the upgrade process for either...

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How to check if your VMs are backed up with script – Backup Exec & Veeam etc

GrahamFebruary 27, 2018March 7, 2018

A quick post on using Powershell & PowerCLI to email you a list of VMs that are not getting backed up. Also functionality to exclude certain VMs from the check (those that you do not want to backup and be alerted on) Note that this is just a quick post,...

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vSphere 6.7 – VMFS3 Datastores No Longer Supported

GrahamFebruary 6, 2018April 17, 2018

As of vSphere 6.7 VMware no longer supports VMFS version 3 datastores. If a vSphere ESXi 6.7 host mounts a VMFS3 datastore, it will be automatically upgraded to VMFS 5. This automatic upgrade process is in-line and does not impact the availability of virtual machines, however this upgrade process will...

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VMware vSphere SSL Certficates – Easy as 1, 2, 3

GrahamJanuary 23, 2018February 23, 2018

This is a very quick post on the use of SSL certificates and vSphere. As of vSphere 6.0 and beyond VMware have provided a VMCA (VMware Certificate Authority) which by default signs all vSphere SSL certificates (vCenter Server & ESXi) The VCSA is a Platform Services Controller feature, enabled by...

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Spectre & Meltdown on VMware – What you need to patch

GrahamJanuary 8, 2018January 14, 2018

Spectre & Meltdown are hot topics at the moment but how does this affect VMware solutions? VMware have provided detail on their stance on the situation via mostly two KB articles; https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/52245 & https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/52264 In summary this is what is covered: ESXi, Workstation & Fusion ESXi is affected by Spectre and patches...

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