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Bye bye vSphere Client, finally

18 May 2016
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Finally VMware has announced some good news about the vSphere clients: for the (old/legacy) C# client and the web/flash one:

  • the C# client (AKA Desktop Client/thick client/vSphere Client for Windows) will not be available for the next version of vSphere (finally!). Current versions of vSphere (6.0, 5.5) will not be affected, as those will follow the standard support period.
  • the web client based on Adobe Flash, will be soon replace (finally!) with a new vSphere pure HTML5 Web Client (actually available through a Fling).

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Tintri unveils its scale-out storage model

17 May 2016
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Tintri Inc. has announced a new scale-out storage platform to enable enterprises and cloud service providers (CSPs) to build their own Amazon-like cloud infrastructure for diverse virtualized workloads. The new platform forms the foundation for the industry’s largest all-flash scale-out, with support for up to 160,000 VMs, 10 petabytes of capacity, and 6.4 million IOPS, for less than $1/GB.

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ESXi on HP Proliant G7 or lower

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If you are running an HP customized image of ESXi on some old Proliant server, you may have some issues as describe in KB 2094618 (The hp-ams process does not stop when restarting ESXi management agents on HP ProLiant G5, G6 and G7-series servers)

When restarting ESXi management agents on HP ProLiant G5, G6 and G7-series servers running versions of HP Agentless Management Service (AMS) prior to 10.1.0 , you experience these symptoms:

 

  • In the Recent Tasks pane of vCenter Server, you see multiple tasks in the In Progress state
  • Virtual machines that still have a stuck In Progress task are greyed out
  • You are unable to edit the settings on a virtual machine that has a stuck task
  • The host in which the virtual machines reside are running on HP Proliant Gen 5, 6 or 7 hardware
  • When you run the services.sh restart command within the ESXi console, you see this output while stopping the hp-amsservice:Running hp-ams.sh restart
    ~ # Stopping process …
    Stopping process …
    Stopping process …
    Stopping process …
    Stopping process …
    Stopping process …
    Stopping process …

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Different editions (and prices) for NSX for vSphere

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As promised in the last VMworld, now VMware has introduced two new less-expensive versions of its NSX product targeted for the mid-enterprise. Also on NSX there are now different editions with different prices and, of course, features.

The full version will be the Enterprise one (sigh… on vSphere Enterprise has gone, wasn’t better call it Enterprise Plus), the intermediate Advanced and the starter just Standard. No Essential or Essential Plus, but will be difficult and non sense (yet) apply this kind of technology to the small business.

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Why do we need a bash on Windows?

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One recent announce by Microsoft was the bash support/integration in Windows 10: with the latest Windows Fast Ring update (14316) it’s possible run Bash and Ubuntu commands on Windows 10. This is the result of the partnership between Microsoft and Canonical.

To try this you must be part of the Windows Insider program, then you need to switch your Windows 10 system to the Fast Ring. You do this by going “System Settings > Advanced Windows Update options” and selecting your Insider Preview update setting to the far right.

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Several issues with vmxnet3 virtual adapter

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VMware best practices for virtual networking, starting with vSphere 5, usually recommend the vmxnet3 virtual NIC adapter for all VMs with a “recent” operating systems: starting from NT 6.0 (Vista and Windows Server 2008) for Windows and for Linux that include this driver in the kernel, and for virtual machines version 7 and later.

For those operating systems the choice is normally between the e1000 or the vmxnet3 adapter: the new virtual machine wizard suggest the e1000 for the recent Windows systems, but only because this driver is included in the OSes.

Historically there were some issues both with e1000 and vmxnet3, but now with vSphere 6.0 seems that the vmxnet3 choice can bring some big problems.

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Windows Server and System Center 2016 TP5

28 April 2016
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After the TP4, Microsoft has recently released the new Tecnichal Preview both for System Center 2016 and for Windows Server 2016.

What’s new in System Center 2016 Technical Preview 5:

  • Provides advanced software-defined datacenter support, including managing the lifecycle of Nano Server hosts and virtual machines, simplified deployment of the new Windows Server 2016 software-defined networking components, and support for Storage Spaces Direct and replicated storage volumes.
  • Expands the surface area of monitoring and reduces friction for IT Operations with data-driven alert management that reduces noise and enables faster troubleshooting, scheduling of maintenance windows, increased scale in monitoring of UNIX and Linux servers, and streamlined access to management packs.
  • Enables flexible approaches to Windows management, including in-place upgrade and provisioning packages and profiles, support for new Windows 10 features, a new servicing dashboard and improved mobile device and application management capabilities when connected to Microsoft Intune.

To learn more about the release, check out Microsoft Mechanics System Center 2016.

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