The latest Adobe Flash update (note that the update has been included also in Microsoft Update) with v 27.0.0.170 make the vSphere Web Client no more usable with all browsers.
With Chrome and Firefox you will recognize that the Flash plugin hangs, in Internet Explorer you will have a simple generic error and the browser that will close.
There is an interesting #Blogtober campaign for the tech / virtualization community started on October 2017.
You can have more information on http://www.blogtober.net web site or on this post (actually the web site just point to this post).
One of the big advantages of the virtual appliance version of VMware vCenter (vCSA) is the ability to update both the OS components and the VMware parts with a simple menu.
Just use the administrative UI available at https://vCSA_IP:5480 and login with user root and the password that you have choose during the deployment.
VMware vSAN 6.6 works only in unicast mode, if you have upgrade all the disks to the last v5 format.
But recently I’ve got a new cluster, build totally from scratch with latest version, that has switched to multicast mode, with the result of all hosts partitioned at network level.
VeeamON is the big event from Veeam (actually only in the US) and VeeamON Tour is usually a smallest (one day) event around the world.
But, like happened in the past year, on December 5 there will be also a VeeamON Tour Virtual event: coming right to your desktop, an event on the future of Availability.
If you choose to install the vCSA 6.5 in two different components, you may have an error during the PSC custominization (happens also on latest 6.5U1):
An error occurred while starting service ‘pschealth’
This it’s related to a failure of identity management service error on first boot, so during the phase 2 of the deployment where the appliance has already been upload, but still must be configured.
Interesting European IT events:
After a technical preview period and the official announce, now both VMware Workstation 14 and VMware Fusion 10 are available for the download.
This is a good news, considering that one year ago there were some rumors and doubts about the future of Workstation and Fusion product, due to the laying off some employees from the related teams.
Seems that nested virtualization is becoming popular on public cloud: first with Ravello, this year also on Azure, and now Google Compute Engine supports nested virtualization in beta.
This feature allows you to run one or more virtual machines inside a Compute Engine Linux virtual machine by leveraging Intel VT-x, processor virtualization instructions, to deliver better performance than what’s possible with alternative technologies like emulation.
VMUG Virtual Events are periodically tech events for virtualization professionals organized by VMUG HQ, instead to have the traditional local meeting or USerCon organized by each local VMUG chapter.
The next virtual event will be the VMUG Virtual EMEA on September, 28th 2017 from 10:00 to 17:00 CET!
During the last VMworld EU, on Monday I’ve tried the new VMware vSAN 2017 Specialist exam, just to see how difficult was and which kind of contents where covered by the exam.
This specialist exam it’s something outside the traditional VMware certification paths, but it’s classified in the Certification Related Badges that includes different types of accreditations:
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