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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.

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is a vendor-neutral link layer protocol used by network devices for advertising their identity, capabilities, and neighbors on an IEEE 802 local area network, usually with Ethernet standard. Compared to Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) it’s not proprietary and can be used from different vendors. VMware vSphere adds LLDP capability in the Distribuited Virtual Switches (DVS). CDP it’s also available both in DVS, but also in standard virtual switches (by default it’s enabled in listen mode).

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf 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.

Reading Time: 2 minutesVMware has released a new version of vCloud Director: this is a major release with version number 9.0. All related documentation has now been moved to VMware Docs website: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vCloud-Director/index.html. So vCloud Director is still alive and still the first (and actually only) choice, using VMware products, for service providers. Actually vRA is not yet able to replace it in this special use case.

Reading Time: 2 minutesDopo un periodo in technical preview period e dopo l’annuncio ufficiale, ora sia VMware Workstation 14 che Fusion 10 sono disponibili per il download. Buona notizia, visto che solo un anno fa si temeva sul futuro di questi prodotti a causa di alcune dipartite nei rispettivi team di sviluppo di prodotto.

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn un’infrastruttura basata su VMware vSphere il concetto di compatibilità si applica normalmente alle macchine virtuali in relazione a quale versione minima di vSphere richiedono per il loro funzionamento. Il livello è definito dalla versione di virtual hardware (che dal punto di vista numerico segue le numerazioni di VMware Workstation): quando si crea una nuova macchina virtuale il livello di default dipende da diversi fattori, quali la versione di vSphere utilizzata, il tipo di client (ad esempio il vecchio vSphere Client per Windows non chiede la versione, nel wizard di default), ma anche da come è stato […]

Reading Time: 6 minutesUsually when you upgrade to a new version of a product you may need also a new license key for it. But it’s not always true. For most of VMware’s products (for example VMware vSphere) a new license key is needed ONLY if you change the major number.

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