#VMware ecosystem gets bigger, will remain «crown jewel» of EMC federation – Michael Dell
«We intend for VMware to remain an independent public company. Further, we believe it is very important to maintain VMware’s successful business model supporting an open and independent ecosystem. We do not plan to do anything proprietary with VMware as regards Dell or EMC, nor place any limitations on VMware’s ability to partner with any other company.»
VMware are reporting about three Security issues, which I shortly render below, and link to the KB’s and where to download the patches.
Affected releases of VMware ESXi:
VMware ESXi 5.5 without patch ESXi550-201509101-SG
VMware ESXi 5.1 without patch ESXi510-201510101-SG
VMware ESXi 5.0 without patch ESXi500-201510101-SG
Affected releases of VMware vCenter Server:
VMware vCenter Server 6.0 prior to version 6.0.0b
VMware vCenter Server 5.5 prior to version 5.5 update 3
VMware vCenter Server 5.1 prior to version 5.1 update u3b
VMware vCenter Server 5.0 prior to version 5.0 update u3e
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The other day I was troubleshooting a vCenter Server where the VMware VirtualCenter Server service started, and in a few seconds stopped – and restarted again. Les videre
VUM 5.x will not work with vCenter 6.0. You have to upgrade this as well to use it. Now, if you are running vSphere Update Manager on a MS Windows 32 bit version, you have to install a new Windows 64 bit host, because, vSphere Update Manager 6.0 doesn’t support 32 bit. Les videre
This blog post will give you some hints before you go ahead and upgrade your VMware vCenter 5.x server to 6.0 – and then walk you through the installation step-by-step. In this guide vCenter services are running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 and the back end database is Oracle. The steps for a MS SQL back end database will not differ too much.
If you have a vCenter appliance, please see this blog post…
VMware have announced critical information for products using Oracle JRE!
Please have a look at «VMware Security Advisories» for information about which Products and versions that are affected.
Have you thought about upgrading Your vCenter 5.x appliance to 6.0 ? This post gives you som hint & tricks before you proceed – and then walk you through the Upgrade path.
When installing, or adding, new ESXi hosts to your environment you may need to mount NFS shares like the other hosts you have. Eighter they are used to store virtual machines or iso’s or other media. Or, maybe you just want to traverse all your host and make all the same NFS mounts to all ESXi hosts like one source host ?
Then this script will help you do that!
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In vSphere 5.5 vFlash Read Cache was introduced. A Nice feature if you use it for what it’s meant for – read cache. In my experience this feature is not commonly known and used by VMware admins, but from time to time I’m hitting some environments where it’s used. In larger deployments with a lot of virtual machines – it’s not an option to check this manually!
Management around this feature is per Virtual machine basis through the Web Client. I think it’s troublesome to edit settings of each and every virtual machine to see if vFRC is used or not. Therefor, PowerCLI is Your, and my, friend for repetitive tasks!
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