VMware has released vROPS 6.4 which contains several new dashboards to display status and identify problems. The new dashboards can be divided into several categories: Environment and capacity overview dashboards to get a summary of your environments. VM troubleshooting dashboard that helps you diagnose problems in a VM and start solving them. Infrastructure capacity and…
As described in my previous post I have upgraded my lab vROPS cluster to vROPS 6.3. After a couple of days I finally had time to look at the updated vROPS policies. One of the things I was most interested in was support for the vSphere 6.0 hardening guide. With vROPS 6.3 it is possible…
A few weeks ago I upgraded the vROPS cluster in the lab environment to vROPS 6.3. The cluster is a 3 node cluster with a master, replica and remote collector. The cluster is behind a NSX load balancer to provide a single FQDN to connect to the cluster. The upgrade went smoothly and all nodes…
This VMworld EU 2016 VMware announced the long awaited vSphere 6.5. This blogpost focuses on the new and enhanced storage features in vSphere 6.5. VMFS-6 A new version of the VMFS file system is introduced providing an all-round performance improvement including faster file creation, device discovery and device rescanning. Maybe the biggest change is that…
21 November – VMware engineering has given a fix for this issue. Results are posted at the end of this post. 17 October – Currently this issue is under investigation by VMware and the SR has been referred to VMware engineering. The workaround for this issue at this time is to not use the provision…
VMware has announced the end of availability of vCloud Networking and Security 5.5.x which will commence on September 19. If you are using vCNS it is possible to migrate to NSX. https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2144733 NSX 6.2.3 has a default license for NSX for vShield Endpoint so if you want to use the Guest Introspection services (eg. Deep…
Update 30 March – VMware have released a KB article with steps how to solve this problem. VMware will be providing a permanent fix in due course. In the meantime they are providing a script that will detect stranded objects, broken disk chains and objects with a CBT lock. Where possible, the script will then…
