I just received security announcement from VMware about LOW severity VMSA-2021-0021 – VMware vRealize Operations Manager update addresses SSRF Vulnerability (CVE-2021-22033). Checking on solution, I found out that fixed version is 8.6 The 8.6 has been released today on 12th of October and I just released video on my YouTube channel where I said it…
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vRealize Operations 8.6 – What’s New?
During VMworld2021 VMware announced vRealize Operations 8.6 which will provide a lot of new features and capabilities. We can expect enhanced integration between vRealize Operations and vRealize Automation, an exciting new user interface for smoother navigation, new public cloud integrations and many more like support for defining custom email notices within the user interface or…
Read moreVMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3 released!
I am happy to announce that on October 5th VMware released Update 3.You can read and watch everything you need to know about this update on my blog and Youtube channel. Download Filename VMware-vCenter-Server-Appliance-7.0.3.00000-18700403-patch-FP.iso Build 18700403 Download Size 7259.1 MB md5sum 56947bc1a591849e55165b7fecebdf85 sha256checksum 54f30ff9fda3dc0cf7f4ff3a1efef45c37152f8ff7623a4f222dbe1d89411c08 The update is applicable from VAMI: Login to VAMI. Go to UPDATE…
Read moreVMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 2c, VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 2c – overview.
Discontinuation of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 in a future major vSphere release: VMware intends in a future major vSphere release to discontinue support of TPM 1.2 and associated features such as TPM 1.2 with TXT. To get full use of vSphere features, you can use TPM 2.0 instead of TPM 1.2. Support for TPM 1.2…
Read moreMigrating from SRM 8.3 Windows to SRM 8.4 Virtual Appliance
It is time to leave Windows machines and change your SRM to Virtual Appliance. SRM 8.4 runs on Photon OS and it is deployed as OVF template. Depend on the version of SRM you are running, you may need few steps upgrade. Appliance starts from version 8.2.0 build 13481390 If you run SRM 8.1.X Windows…
Read moreCannot copy files to host data.host. Check the management service status, network connectivity with vCenter and disk space on the host.
Oh boy, oh boy, what a bumpy ride I had with upgrading my vSphere environment form 6.5 version to 7.0.2. First I had issue with prolong boot on ESXi hosts, I wrote about this in this article providing solution, now after following workaround I upgraded to 7GA (generic version, first release) and wanted to run…
Read moreAfter upgrading to ESXI 7.0 update 2 , the reboot process is Extremely slow boot
On one of my clusters (with over 30 hosts) it took literally six and half hours for one host to get back online. Furthermore they never return to vCenter. Status was Disconnected. I had to manually click on Connection -> connect. The booting process stuck on vmw_vaaip_symm loaded successfully On the small cluster it was…
Read moreWhat to do if your baseline is incompatible?
During ESXi upgrade process on one of the cluster I saw that baseline which works fine everywhere else is incompatible! What would be your first though ? Reboot? Old firmware? Fortunately we can scroll down and have a look what the error is all about. As we can see there is an issue with VIBs.…
Read moreHow to update your vCenter from ISO
I run to this very strange issue, where in the VAMI options to stage or install update are greyed-out. I have a case opened with VMware, however taking in to the account security advisory I decided to run update from ISO. Here is the Runlist: Download ISO form Vmware website NOTE: you will need to…
Read morevCenter 7.0 Update 2 Upgrade Issue – Exception occurred in install precheck phase
vSphere 7.0. Update 2 is over 5GB large and promises a lot of new features. However upgrading your environment can proof difficult. Once I start to upgrade my DEV vCenter I came across this error: Exception occurred in install precheck phase Resume leads to pre-check and pre-check results in same error as above. At this…
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