Quick Fix - ESXi loses all Network Configuration... but still runs?
I had a really strange situation pop up in one of my lab environments over the weekend. vSAN Health was reporting that one of the hosts had lost networking c...
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Important ESXi 6.0 Patch - Upgrade Now!
Last week VMware released a new patch ( ESXi 6.0 Build 5572656 ) that addresses a number of serious bugs with Snapshot operations. Usually I wouldn't blog ab...
NSX Bytes: NSX-v 6.3 Host Preparation Fails with Agent VIB module not installed
NSX-v 6.3 was released last week with an impressive list of new enhancements and I wasted no time in looking to upgrades my NestedESXi lab instance from 6.2....
NSX Bytes: Important Bug in 6.2.4 to be Aware of
[ UPDATE ] In light of this post being quoted on The Register I wanted to clarify a couple of things. First off, as mentioned t here is a fix for this issue ...
NSX Bytes: NSX-v 6.2.4 Released ...Important Upgrade!
NSX-v 6.2.4 was released the week before VMworld US so might have gotten somewhat lost in the VMworld noise...For those that where fortunate enough to not up...
Quick Post: ESXi 6.0 Patch Breaks Veeam Instant VM Recovery
This is a quick post to alert Veeam users to an issue that was raised in the Veeam Community Forums yesterday...firstly if you are a Veeam customer and are n...
ESXi Bugs - VMware Can't Keep Letting This Happen!
VMware is at an interesting place at this point in time...there is still no doubting that ESXi and vCenter are the market leaders in terms of Hypervisor Plat...
Quick Fix: vCenter 5.5 Update 3x Phone Home Warning and VPXD Service not Starting
This week I've been upgrading vCenter in a couple of our labs and came across this issue during and after the upgrade of vCenter from 5.5 Update 2 to 5.5 Upd...
NSX vCloud Retrofit: Controller Deployment Internal Server Error Has Occurred
During my initial work with NSX-v I was running various 6.0.x Builds together with vCD 5.5.2 and vCenter/ESXi 5.5 without issue. When NSX 6.1 was released I ...
ESXi 5.5 Update 2: vMotion Fails at 14% with Stale Admission Control and VM Reservations
We are currently in the process of upgrading all of our vCenter Clusters from ESXi 5.1 to 5.5 Update 2 and have come across a bug whereby the vMotion of VMs ...
Follow Up: vCloud 5.x IP Sub Allocation Pool Error ...Fix Coming
A few months ago I wrote a quick post on a bug that existed in vCloud Director 5.1 in regards to IP Sub Allocation Pools and IP's being marked as in use when...
ESXi 5.x NFS IOPS Limit Bug - Latency and Performance Hit
There is another NFS bug hidden in the latest ESXi 5.x releases...while not as severe as the 5.5 Update 1 NFS Bug it's been the cause of increased Virtual Di...
vCOPS 5.8: Critical Data Collection Bug
UPDATE : VMware Global Support supplied me with vCOPs 5.8.0 Hot Fix 01 Build 1537842 which is available via a support request. This is a complete .pak update...