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Reading Time: 3 minutesSeems that there are still some issues with vSphere 6.5, with a possible PSOD (Purple Screen Of the Death) after upgrade to 6.5U1 on ESXi hosts using 10 Gbps NICs. The VMware KB 2151749 describe this issue and explains that this occurs because Netqueue commit phase abruptly stop due to the failure of hardware activation of a Rx queue. As a result, Internal data-structure of the Netqueue layer’s could go out of sync with the device and cause PSOD.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter replacing the SAS card on some ESXi 6.5 nodes, I’ve got a strange issue in the vSAN cluster. The vSAN was healthy and apparently working, but when I try to build new VMs wasn’t working at all, saying that there weren’t enough resources. But there was a lot of free reported space. The reason was that single node, the capacity disks where simply “not Healthy”, but reported as mounted.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you are going to using vSphere Replication you will notice, after the deployment of the two virtual appliances a continuous (also each minute) logging of installation activities on all the ESXi hosts in the protected cluster. This is quite annoying but also is going to fill up your log both in the ESXi hosts and in the vCenter database (are all tasks visible in the the vCenter console).
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne 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 chosen during the deployment.
Reading Time: 3 minutesVMware 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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe legacy C# vSphere Client for Windows is no more available for vSphere 6.5 (see Bye bye vSphere Client, finally), put for previous vSphere version you can still use it. You can but maybe you shouldn’t, just because new features are in the vSphere Web Client and also because it’s not always friendly in error handling and message.
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