When you are performing an upgrade from vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 to 6.7, you may see this, after you have filled out, all the details about the source server: As you double check, you found out, that all infos you have typed, are correct! – But then, what could be wrong?! Let’s check the suggested installer… Read More »
VMWARE released vSphere 6.7, getting a lot of new functions and improvements, this also gives us a new vCenter Server Appliance. In many smaller setups, we run what is called and embedded appliance, where all vSphere vCenter Server funtionalites coexist on one single VM, this is VMWARE’s guide how to upgrade and embedded appliance 🙂… Read More »
When triyng to scan og remediate hosts, you may get errors saying that hosts cannot be updated in the event log, but nothing more, a quick and easy fix is to reset the update manage db and the patch store: Cautions: The following is a destructive task. Ensure you have working backups and/or snapshots of the… Read More »
When updating a ESXI HOST with esxcli, you may get this: Running command: esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.5.0-20180104001-standard \ -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml Output: [InstallationError] Failed updating the bootloader: Execution of command /usr/lib/vmware/bootloader-installer/install-bootloader failed: non-zero code returned return code: 1 output: ERROR: ld.so: object ‘/lib/libMallocArenaFix.so’ from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Traceback (most recent call last):… Read More »
Due to the new CPU bug, memory can be read by criminals, therefore update your OS and virtuel environments: Relevant Products VMware vSphere ESXi (ESXi) VMware Workstation Pro / Player (Workstation) excluded Workstation version 14 VMware Fusion Pro / Fusion (Fusion) excluded Fusion 10 Solution VMware vSphere 6.5: apply patch ESXi650-201712101-SG (released on Dec, 19th 2017) VMware… Read More »
After I installed the 5100 build of vCenter Server Appliance 6.5, and ran with it for 1 month, I suddenly could not connect to the Web Interface anymore, all I got was this: “503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http20NamedPipeServiceSpecE:0x7f009c095810] _serverNamespace = / _isRedirect = false _pipeName =/var/run/vmware/vpxd-webserver-pipe)” This is due to a… Read More »
Suddenly when running VMWARE Workstation 11 on Windows 10, the VM’s would not start, when trying to start them they each give “internal error”. Looking in service manager, I found that the “VMWARE Workstation Server”-service was stopped, and could not start, giving the following error in event log: Event id: 7024 “VMware Workstation Server… Read More »
VMWARE has just released vSphere 6.5 offering a lot of new and great features: vSphere 6.5 – Release Notes vSphere 6.5 – Whitepaper What’s new From my perspective, the biggest feature is the new “VMware vCenter Server 6.0 with an embedded VMware Platform Services Controller” The VCSA have been having a rough start in the… Read More »
Managing vCenter server, everybody knows it can be a pain setting up notifications. Luckily this guy did some great work, simplifying everything 🙂 It changes notifications, e-mail and repeat, once, frequency on the most used notifications – it tested this on vSphere 6, and it works great: Download: powercli_script_to_automatically_setup_vcenter_alarm_email.txt Source: https://fixingitpro.com/2012/07/09/powercli-script-to-automatically-setup-vcenter-alarm-email-notification/
Here we go again! VMWARE has released ESXi 6.0 Express Patch 6: Link This apparently breaks CBT, under the following conditions: Only VMs with Operating System Server 2008 or newer (Linux VMs are unaffected.) All HW Versions (7, 8, 9, 10 and 11) and all VMware tools versions are affected The issue occurs with both thick… Read More »
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