Starting at Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host 7.4, VMware has support this operating system as VMware Guest OS officially. Maybe, there is need to upgrade or apply patch on ESXi to support the OS.
What’s the “sfcb-smx” error? This error is related to HPE smx-providers for the Smart Array controller MRA and any HPE ProLiant G8 or G9 server will be affected if VMware ESXi has been deployed on the server by using HPE VMware ESXi 6.5 (Nov2016) ISO image. NOTE: As result of this issue, HPE Insight Management WBEM Providers are restarted by the sfcbd when they fail; therefore, the inventory information will be available. However, when a provider crashes and is re-started, the sfcbd may not resend all the indication subscriptions and the clients listening will not get any indications if the Smart Array hardware has issues. You may also faced with the below lines in vmkernel.log file: sfcb-smx: wantCoreDump:sfcb-smx signal:11 exitCode:0 coredump:enabled sfcb-smx: Dumping cartel 684037 (from world 684042) to file /var/core/sfcb-smx-zdump.000 … sfcb-smx: Userworld(sfcb-smx) coredump complete. What’s Solution? There is just a solution and administrators should upgrade their ESXi hosts by HPE VMware ESXi 6.5 (July 2017) custom ISO image. To fix the impact of not getting indications after a provider crashes, restart the HPE Insight Management WBEM Providers, by performing any of the following procedures: Run the command “/etc/init.d/sfcbd-watchdog restart”. Use the console to restart the management agents. Use vCenter to...
What’s VMware Docs VMware has launch VMware Docs officially, this is a single platform for accessing to VMware products documents as a unified portal. All documents are available in different versions (Actually Current Versions) and languages. VMware Docs Features Online or Offline Reading Users have access to all published documents for any VMware product via VMware Docs, the documents are available as HTML format and PDF format, so users be able to download and read the documents offline. Searching and Filtering VMware Docs provides searching and filtering feature to find exact information about the products, features, patches, installation, configuration and any other things. The search will return results from the below content sources: KB Articles Technical Papers Product Documentation Search results will be filtered by different information types, products and subjects. My Library VMware Docs provides My Library feature for each user and users be able to collect documents to collections. Collections are shareable and users can share their collections with each other. Searching and filtering features are also available on the collections.
VMware has published a list that includes unsupported and deprecated devices from two vendors: Emulex Qlogic Deprecated devices may still be worked and drivers will be installed but those devices are not supported on vSphere 6.5 officially. You need to upgrade your hardware before upgrading vSphere, but it’s your choice! Because your device may be worked without any issue. You can find the deprecated and unsupported devices in the below table: Partner Driver Name Device IDs Device Name Emulex lpfc 10DF:F0E5:0000:0000 Emulex LPe1105-M4 4 Dual-Channel 4Gb/s Fibre Channel HBA 10DF:F0E5:0000:0000 Emulex LPe1150 Single-Channel 4Gb/s Fibre Channel HBA 10DF:F0E5:0000:0000 Emulex LPe1150 4Gb/s Fibre Channel Adapter 10DF:F0E5:10DF:F0E5 Emulex LPe1150 Single-Channel 4Gb/s Fibre Channel HBA 10DF:F0E5:10DF:F0E5 LPe1150-E Emulex LPe1150 Single-Channel 4Gb/s Fibre Channel HBA for Dell and EMC 10DF:FE00:0000:0000 LPe11002 4Gb Fibre Channel Host Adapter 10DF:FE00:0000:0000 NE3008-102 10DF:FE00:0000:0000 NE2000-001 10DF:FE00:0000:0000 Emulex LPe11000 4Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter 10DF:FE00:10DF:FE00 Emulex LPe11002 Dual-Channel 4Gb/s Fibre Channel HBA 10DF:FE00:10DF:FE00 N8403-018 10DF:FE00:10DF:FE00 EMC LPe11000-E 10DF:FE00:10DF:FE00 EMC LPe11002-E 10DF:FE00:10DF:FE00 Emulex LPe11000 Single-Channel 4Gb/s Fibre Channel HBA 10DF:FE00:10DF:FE22 Emulex L1105-M Emulex LPe1105-M4 Dual-Channel 4Gb/s Fibre Channel mezzanine card for Dell PowerEdge 10DF:FE00:103c:1708 403621-B21 Emulex LPe1105-HP Dual-Channel 4Gb/s Fibre Channel mezzanine card for HP BladeSystem c-Cl 10DF:FE00:10DF:FE00 A8002A – FC2142SR Emulex...
Neil Anderson is one of my readers and he wanted me to share his new how-to guide. Neil has a new blog at http://www.flackbox.com/about-neil/ . You can download his guide after subscription as PDF file. Where to find all the software for free, how to build the NetApp simulators, the Windows and Linux clients, the VMware setup and how to configure the networking. The lab features two NetApp simulator ONTAP 9 clusters, Windows and Linux clients and separate IP subnets to make it as close to a real world environment as possible. You’ll have the entire lab up and running in an hour, and you won’t need to figure anything out along the way because I show you everything. You can build the lab at no cost, all you need is a PC to run it on. I hope you can make use of it to expand your storage knowledge and further your career. The lab build outlined in the book is the same one I use for the hands-on demonstrations in my videos. You can use the instructions in the free eBook to build your own lab and follow along with me as you watch. The post link: http://www.flackbox.com/netapp-simulator/ Please...
Finally, AMD has introduced AMD Zen micro-architecture with some enhancements, improvements and new features recently. AMD doesn’t have any technology like Intel Hyper-Threading till now but Zen architecture has SMT (simultaneous multi-threading) and AMD processors can compete with Intel processor in virtual environment. Hyper-Threading is a good processor feature for virtualization and it can improve performance and CPU capacity without adding new physical processor. AMD Secure Memory Encryption (SME) and AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) are two virtualization features for improving virtual environments security. We have to wait for first Opteron processor with Zen architecture and test it.
Duncan Epping has published another good post and he has introduced a solution for unswapping in vSphere. You know that you have to use vMotion or power cycle for unswap but it seems, there is a solution that it’s very simpler. So read the below post and put your feedback. I have memory pages swapped, can vSphere unswap them?
Finally, VMware Horizon View 5.3 is available and you can download that from this link. Some new features are added to this product by VMware: 3D graphics with virtual dedicated graphics acceleration (vDGA) Improved Real-Time Audio-Video experience and performance Enhancement to mobility features in HTML5 and Unity Touch Windows 8.1 support VMware® ThinApp® 5.0 Combining View with VMware Horizon Mirage™ 4.3 Reduce storage with VMware Virtual San™ (VSAN) beta Support for Windows Server 2008 for virtual desktops View Agent Direct Connection (VADC) All of the features are awesome. You can deliver better experiences to your users by new graphic acceleration even for gaming, reduce your application management by ThinApp 5.0 that this new version supporting 64 bit applications. Use your local disk as SAN storage by vSAN and reduce cost. vSAN is introducde with vSphere 5.5. New plugin is very useful when you need to use a virtual desktop as dashboard, you can access to disjoined virtual desktop or login to more than one virtual desktops by that same as RDP sessions. I recommend, use this new version of View, if you have a plan for deploy virtual desktops. in new site
