vSphere 6.5 Update 1 is out, here’s why you want to upgrade

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vSphere 6.5 Update 1 is out, here’s why you…

Hi VMware have just released the first major update to vSphere 6.5, normally, I don’t blog on these but this update is so big and it fixes some really annoying bugs I saw using the GA version of vSphere 6.5..thankfully, we worked hard with their support to overcome some of the issues I highlighted…


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VMware Announces General Availability of vSphere 6.5 Update 1

VMware Announces General Availability of vSphere 6.5 Update 1

VMware Announces General Availability of…

vSphere 6.5 Update 1 is the Update You’ve Been Looking For! Today, VMware is excited to announce the general availability of vSphere 6.5 Update 1. This is the first major update to the well-received vSphere 6.5 that was released in November of 2016. With this update release, VMware builds upon the already robust industry-leading virtualization The post VMware Announces General Availability of vSphere 6.5 Update 1 appeared first on VMware vSphere Blog .


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Free e-learning course – VMware vSphere: What’s…

Free e-learning course – VMware vSphere: What’s New Fundamentals [V6.0 to V6.5]

Free e-learning course – VMware vSphere: What’s…

This course highlights the new features and enhancements in vSphere 6.5. It also presents use cases that describe how the new features align with customer needs.


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Weathervane, a benchmarking tool for…

Weathervane, a benchmarking tool for virtualized infrastructure and clouds – now open source!

Weathervane, a benchmarking tool for…

Weathervane is a performance benchmarking tool developed at VMware. It lets you assess the performance of your virtualized or cloud environment by driving a load against a realistic application and capturing relevant performance metrics. You might use it to compare the performance characteristics of two different environments, or to understand the performance impact of some change in an existing environment.


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Released: vCenter and ESXi 6.0 Update 3 –…

Released: vCenter and ESXi 6.0 Update 3 – What’s in It for Service Providers — via VIRTUALIZATION IS LIFE!

Released: vCenter and ESXi 6.0 Update 3 –…

Last month I wrote a blog post on upgrading vCenter 5.5 to 6.0 Update 2 and during the course of writing that blog post I conducted a survey on which version of vSphere most people where seeing out in the wild…overwhelmingly vSphere 6.0 was the most popular version with 5.5 second and 6.5 lagging in adoption for the moment.


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Top documents, whitepapers, videos, & blogs you…

Top documents, whitepapers, videos, & blogs you MUST read about vSphere 6.5 – vSphere-land

Top documents, whitepapers, videos, & blogs you…

There have been so many documents, white papers, videos and blog posts about the vSphere 6.5 release that it’s hard to keep up with them all. Fortunately you don’t have to as I have over 300 links gathered in my vSphere 6.5 Link-O-Rama and it is still growing. With so many links it’s easy to … Continue reading » [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]


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Update Manager fails to scan ESXi host

I had an issue when using update manager to scan a host and it would fail with a “Check log for errors blah blah blah”.  The errors are never useful.  After investigating and checking the log, I found the following entry:

2015-06-02T20:57:30.312-07:00 [00504 info ‘VcIntegrity’] Error on logout (ignored): vim.fault.NotAuthenticated

When researching the issue, I came across a best practices guide that basically pointed out the error.  So as a general best practice, verify on your hosts, on the configuration tab, under DNS and Routing, that you have filled in all the fields. I had missed the Search Domain field on that particular host which was causing the scan to fail.

DNS and RoutingThe fields with the blue boxes will cause the Update Manager scan failure as well as cause other issues with DNS on the host.  Just another one of things to check!

As always, leave questions or suggestions in the comments.

 

SRM 5.8 Plugin does not display in the vSphere Web Client

Today when logging into the vSphere Web Client to document the SRM testing process, I noticed that the SRM plugin did not show on the home screen.  However, when logging into the protected site I noticed that it was there.  Here are my troubleshooting steps:

1. Logged into the SRM server and noticed the service was not running.  I started the service and tried logging into the web client, but the plugin was still not showing.

2. I then rebooted the SRM box and logged back into the web client.  Still no SRM plugin.

3. I restarted the vCenter service and web managementservices on the vCenter box. Still no SRM plugin.

4. Finally, I restarted the web client service on the vcenter box. Logged into the web client, and voila! Plugin was showing.

The root cause is that the SRM service must be running.  If it is not, start the service and then restart the web client service on the vCenter server.