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New HPE Customized ESXi Image Not Supported on ProLiant BL c-Class Servers

HPE has released the supported ESXi versions as customized images for ProLiant and other HPE server products. There is bad news about HPE ProLiant BL460c. Which Version Have Released? The below versions of HPE Custom Images for VMware Released in January 2021: VMware-ESXi-7.0.1-17325551-HPE-701.0.0.10.6.3.9-Jan2021.iso VMware-ESXi-6.7.0-17167734-HPE-Gen9plus-670.U3.10.6.3.8-Jan2021.iso VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-Update3-17097218-HPE-Gen9plus-650.U3.10.6.3.8-Dec2020.iso Which Hardware Products Not Supported? The mentioned images don’t support installing on the below server products: HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen10 Server Blade HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server Blade HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen9 Server Blade Which Versions Are Supported on ProLiant BL c-Class Servers? The below versions must be used on ProLiant BL c-Class Servers: VMware-ESXi-7.0.1-16850804-HPE-701.0.0.10.6.0.40-Oct2020.iso VMware-ESXi-6.7.0-Update3-16713306-HPE-Gen9plus-670.U3.10.6.0.83-Oct2020.iso VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-Update3-16389870-HPE-Gen9plus-650.U3.10.6.0.86-Oct2020.iso What Should We Do For Future? Don’t worry, the next releases will be supported on ProLiant BL c-Class Servers. Wait for new releases of HPE Custom Images for VMware. See Also Network Connection Problem on HPE FlexFabric 650 (FLB/M) Adapter References Notice: HPE c-Class BladeSystem – The HPE Custom Images for VMware Released in January 2021 Are Not Supported on ProLiant BL c-Class Servers

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vSphere 7 is Available to Download

VMware vSphere 7 is now available to download. The new version of vSphere is available with the below licenses and components: Licenses and Components Essentials VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0.0                           VMware vCenter Server 7.0.0                                                              Essentials Plus                                              VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0.0                            VMware vCenter Server 7.0.0                                                              VMware vSphere Replication 8.3.0                                       Standard                                                       VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0.0                            VMware vCenter Server 7.0.0                                                              VMware vSphere Replication 8.3.0                                       VMware vRealize Orchestrator Appliance 8.0.1 Enterprise                        VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0.0                            VMware vCenter Server 7.0.0                                                              VMware vSphere Replication 8.3.0                                       VMware vRealize Orchestrator Appliance 8.0.1 Enterprise Plus                VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0.0                            VMware vCenter Server 7.0.0                                                              VMware vSphere Replication 8.3.0                                       VMware vRealize Orchestrator Appliance 8.0.1 Desktop                            VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0.0                            VMware vCenter Server 7.0.0                                                              VMware vSphere Replication 8.3.0                                       VMware vRealize Orchestrator Appliance 8.0.1 vSphere Scale-Out                         VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0.0                            VMware vCenter Server 7.0.0                                                              VMware vRealize Orchestrator Appliance 8.0.1 Custom ISO and Addons Dell and HPE has released their customized images for ESXi 7 and the customized images are available to download. Also the vendors have released Addons for ESXi 7 and the addons are available now. Other vendors are not listed yet, so f you are ready to deploy vSphere 7 in your environment, make...

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Last HPE Pre-Gen9 ESXi 6.5 U3 Custom Image

HPE has released the last custom image for Pre-Gen9 ProLiant servers. Actually, the Pre-Gen9 was just Gen8! Seems, HPE Gen8 ProLiant is retiring. HPE released ESXi 6.7 U3 custom image as well and it does support Gen9 and Gen10. What’s Changed? Same as all previous custom images, there were some changes on device drivers, management bundles and also ESXi image. All the custom images have been created from latest ESXi image. Also you can find the other changes via the below links: ESXi 6.7 U3: Driver Versions in HPE supplied VMware ESXi images ESXi 6.5 U3 (G9 Plus, Pre-G9): Driver Versions in HPE supplied VMware ESXi images Download Links The custom images are available on VMware: ESXi 6.7 U3 Dec 2019 – Support Gen9 Servers and forward ESXi 6.5 U3 Dec 2019 – Support Gen9 Servers and forward ESXi 6.5 U3 Dec 2019 – Last Pre-Gen9 custom image

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HPE FlexFabric 650FLB Adapter May Cause PSOD on ESXi 6.x

Seems, there is an issue on HPE Blade Servers when a specific adapter is installed on server. If there is any server of the below models in your virtual environment that you should consider to this post: HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen10 Server Blade HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server Blade HPE ProLiant BL660c Gen9 Server HPE servers running VMware ESXi 6.0, VMware ESXi 6.5 or VMware ESXi 6.7 and configured with an HPE FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 650FLB Adapter with driver version 12.0.1211.0 (or prior), a “wake NOT set” message is logged in the Vmkernel logs. Then after 20 to 30 days of server run time, a Purple Screen of Death (PSOD) may display a brcmfcoe: lpfc_sli_issue_iocb_wait:10828 message. The following errors are displayed in the VMkernel logs after approximately 50 to 70 days of server run time: 2019-07-20T00:46:10.267Z cpu33:69346)WARNING: brcmfcoe: lpfc_sli_issue_iocb_wait:10828: 0:0330 IOCB wake NOT set, Data x24 x0 2019-07-20T01:10:14.266Z cpu33:69346)WARNING: brcmfcoe: lpfc_sli_issue_iocb_wait:10828: 0:0330 IOCB wake NOT set, Data x24 x0 2019-07-20T02:16:25.801Z cpu33:69346)WARNING: brcmfcoe: lpfc_sli_issue_iocb_wait:10828: 0:0330 IOCB wake NOT set, Data x24 x0 2019-07-20T02:22:26.957Z cpu33:69346)WARNING: brcmfcoe: lpfc_sli_issue_iocb_wait:10828: 0:0330 IOCB wake NOT set, Data x24 x0 2019-07-20T03:26:39.057Z cpu11:69346)WARNING: brcmfcoe: lpfc_sli_issue_iocb_wait:10828: 0:0330 IOCB wake NOT set, Data x24 x0 2019-07-20T04:06:46.158Z cpu11:69346)WARNING: brcmfcoe: lpfc_sli_issue_iocb_wait:10828: 0:0330...

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Kubewise, Multi-Platform Desktop Client for Kubernetes

Kubewise is a simple multi-platform desktop client for Kubernetes. In the same way the kubectl command requires only a valid kubeconfig file to run commands against a Kubernetes cluster, Kubewise requires you just to configure one or more valid kubeconfig files to interact with the corresponding Kubernetes clusters. Main features: Support for multiple kubeconfig files. UI-driven interaction with the most frequently used Kubernetes entities. One-click terminal with the proper KUBECONFIG env variable set. Generation of custom kubeconfig files for a given namespace. Highlight sustaniability and security-related data. Requirements Kubewise is a desktop application built with HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Node.js, and it runs on Electron, a framework for building cross platform apps using web technologies. So for running it, basically, all you need is: Any modern macOS, Windows or Linux (Debian-based) OS. kubectl v1.14.0+ installed to access Kubernetes v1.14.0+ clusters. External Links Kubewise

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VMware’s Tool for Find VMware’s Products Ports and Protocols

VMware’s products needs to communicate together or communicate with other components of services via network, administrators must know that components will communicate via which ports and protocols. VMware has provided a tool to find port and protocol of popular VMware’s products which called ” VMware Ports and Protocols”. Currently, you can find ports and protocols which the below products used: vSphere vSAN NSX for vSphere vRealize Network Insight vRealize Operations Manager vRealize Automation Note: The recent versions of the mentioned products and not out of support products. External Links VMware Ports and Protocols

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HPE G10 Servers: Best and Optimized Setting for VMware vSphere

Optimizing HPE server configuration is always one of biggest challenges for virtual environments administrators. The administrators always trying to provide best performance by changing configurations on hypervisor, virtual machines or other components or virtual infrastructure. There are best practices which published by server vendors to achieve best performance on their server platform. Server hardware is one most important component in every environment, server provides main power and resource: Computing Resources. Processor and memory and other server’s component made to work almost like as human brain. Some Important Things! Human brain needs consumes about 20 percent of the body’s energy. Consume more energy is equal to more heat in human body. Server components needs energy and cooling, like human body. Energy and cooling needs money. So there is a challenge to keep balance between performance and cost of services in any IT environments. What’s Important About Server Hardware? In fact, processors and cooling system consume most power which provided by power modules. Don’t think about single server, think about hundreds of servers and thousands processors, thousand x 200W! (At least). Best performance has more cost for any environment also needs more maintenance. What’s Best Practices? Best practices are depended to workload...

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Using Network Partitioning (NPAR) in VMware ESXi

Data Center design is changing year by year, before virtualization all servers was physical and data centers were full of devices and cables. Virtualization helped to make data centers smaller and consolidate different workloads in same hardware. Hardware technologies are also helping to achieve this goal. Network Partitioning (NPAR) is one of hardware technologies which helping to reduce cabling, switch devices and use all I/O capacity in data centers. What’s Network Partitioning (NPAR)? NPAR is an operating system and switch agnostic technology that allows customers to reduce the number of I/O adapters required to support different application workloads. Traditional best practices require separate LAN or SAN connections for different aspects of application workloads. Converged Network Adapters already support widely used SAN protocols like Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI, administrators can already reduce the number of adapters needed for separate protocols, including separate Fibre Channel and Ethernet adapters. With NPAR, these adapters can now partition their network bandwidth further into multiple virtual connections, making one dual-port adapter appear as eight adapters to the operating system for use by the applications. This greatly simplifies the physical connectivity to the server, reduces implementation time, and lowers the acquisition cost of the...

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Virtual Machine Compute Optimizer

Virtual Machine Compute Optimizer is a new fling which has been published on VMware Labs. The Virtual Machine Computer Optimizer (VMCO) is a Powershell script that uses the PowerCLI module to capture information about the hosts and VMS running in your vSphere environment, and reports back on whether the VMs are configured optimally based on the Host CPU and memory. It will flag a VM as “YES” if it is optimized and “NO” if it is not. For non-optimized VMs, a recommendation is made that will keep the same number of vCPUs currently configured, with the optimal number of virtual cores and sockets. Requirements In order to run the Virtual Machine Compute Optimizer, you will need the following: Windows 7/Server 2008 or above Powershell v5 or higher The PowerCLI Module installed, or access to the internet. The VMCO will attempt to install the module if it is not already, and give you an option to upgrade if it is out of date. A user account with Read-Only rights assigned at the vCenter level with ‘Propogate to children’enabled. These rights will be needed on each vCenter that will be analyzed. Further Reading VMware Tools Client – Interact with a VM without...

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The ramdisk ‘tmp’ is full – VMware ESXi 6.x on HPE ProLiant

We are using HPE ProLiant servers in our virtual environment to delivering different services to our customers. VMware ESXi has been installed on all servers as Hypervisor. You know that each vendor has customized image that includes VMware ESXi, drivers and management tools. It seems, there is an issue on HPE Agentless Management (AMS) on latest ESXi image.

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VMware ESXi Warning: Failed to reserve volume f530 28 1

We had a disaster on one of our storage devices that some virtual machines were hosting by the storage. After recovering issue on the storage, the below log was on some ESXi hosts: ESXi-Server vmkwarning: cpu45:34354)WARNING: Fil3: 2469: Failed to reserve volume f530 28 1 5cde7257 f5e2aa1e 67208f12 f0f55d7c 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 The issue was happened when the hosts were trying to mount the affected datastores even after issue was recovered. Some of affected datastores wont mounted automatically after disaster. So we had to rescan all paths on ESXi servers or mount the datastores manually. Hope this post will help you to recover same issues faster. Further Reading ESXi Fails with “Corruption in dlmalloc” on HPE Server VMware ESXi Queue Depth – Overview, Configuration And Calculation

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PowerCLI: Best Way to Run Invoke-VMScript and Challenges with Linux Guest

There is some challenges for passing Linux commands with parameters to guest OS. In most of cases, administrators have to pass commands as a PowerShell variable also I had some bad experiences, as an example: run “Sed” with some special parameters. I have to use lot of double quotes and single quotes to pass command via Invoke-VMScript to guest OS.

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What’s PCoIP Ultra?

PCoIP Ultra represents our most advanced protocol enhancements yet, designed to meet the needs of the most demanding graphics-intensive applications while delivering the same lossless image quality and security our customers expect.