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vCenter Server 5.1 Update 2 released

vCenter Server 5.1 Update 2 released

VMware released update 2 for vCenter Server 5.1 which adds some nice features and enhancements. If you haven’t updated to vSphere 5.5 yet make sure you update your 5.1 environment. What’s new? So what’s new with this update? vCenter Server is now supported on Windows Server 2012 R2 Additional Guest Operating System Customization Support: vCenter now supports Windows 8.1 RHEL 6.4 Windows Server 2012 R2 SLES 11 Service Pack 3 Database support added for Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Service Pack…

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vCenter Server 5.1.0a released and View support for vSphere 5.1

vCenter Server 5.1.0a released and View support for vSphere 5.1

VMware released an update for vCenter Server 5.1, bringing the version towards 5.1.0a (build version 880471). This update addresses several issues found in GA release (mostly related wit the new SSO service). For more information you can read the release notes. There are no new things added with this release but mostly bug fixes. View support for vSphere 5.1 VMware also released a patch which makes View supported with vSphere 5.1. For more information please read the KB. For VMware…

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VMware releases 5.0 U1 and more!

VMware releases 5.0 U1 and more!

VMware announced quite some updates today. A summary of updates released and a link to their release notes: VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 1 VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1 (for Windows) VMware vCenter Configuration Manager VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat 6.4 Update 1 vCloud Director 1.5.1 VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0.1 VMware vShield 5.0.1 VMware vCenter Chargeback Manager 2.0.1 As you can see these updates fix quite some problems :-). Furthermore there are quite some new features added. Newly added…

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Disabling ” SSH/ESXi shell for the host has been enabled” warnings

Disabling ” SSH/ESXi shell for the host has been enabled” warnings

When enabling SSH or ESXi shell on a ESXi host you will get a warning in the client summary tab. This can be disabled by changing the UserVars.SuppressShellWarning to 1. To do this follow the steps below: Select the ESXi host Click the Configuration tab Under Software, choose Advanced Settings Navigate towards UserVars Change the value of UserVars.SuppressShellWarning to 1 Save the change by clicking OK The warning will be gone after this. You can enable it again by changing…

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Moving locked VM’s in ESXi using SSH

Moving locked VM’s in ESXi using SSH

VMware vSphere is a very nice piece of virtualization software. Sadly there are a few things that can go wrong and I had the “luck” to hit one of those. Waking up on a morning to notice that 4 VM’s are offline because of the ESXi host going down (hardware failure) isn’t something you want to wake up with. The worst news was that it was a new host which hadn’t been added to a cluster yet so no HA…

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