[UPDATE] – VMware have released an official KB for the CBT issue. Sadly if you recognize the title of this post it’s because this isn’t the first time I’ve felt compelled to write about the continued industry frustration with some repeat ESXi bugs. In February I wrote in general around the recent history of bugs […] Read More
January vCenter and ESXi 5.5 Patch Releases: Critical CBT Bug Fixed
VMware released new builds for vCenter and ESXi 5.5 today. The builds contain mostly bug fixes, but I wanted to point out one fix that had affected those who use CBT as part of their VM backup strategy. Veeam users where initially affected by the bug…though Veeam released a work around in subsequent Veeam 8 builds this […] Read More
Veeam 8: Zero Day Patch to Address VMware CBT Bug
Received an email this morning from Veeam letting me know that a zero day patch was available that addresses the CBT Bug mentioned in my previous New Feature Post and highlighted by Luca here: You are receiving this because our records indicate that you have downloaded Veeam Backup & Replication v8 RTM build. VMware disclosed a Changed Block […] Read More
Updated – Important ESXi 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7 Patch Release – CBT Fixes and More!
Over the last few years the amount of CBT related issues has decreased significantly from VMware. I remember back in my previous roles of having to deal with multiple issues and wrote some pretty heavy posts around the topic. While those posts where not popular in some circles at the time, they certainly highlighted the […] Read More
Important ESXi 6.0 and 6.7 Patch Release – CBT Fixes and More!
Over the last few years the amount of CBT related issues has decreased significantly from VMware. I remember back in my previous roles of having to deal with multiple issues and wrote some pretty heavy posts around the topic. While those posts where not popular in some circles at the time, they certainly highlighted the […] Read More
NSX Bytes: Important Bug in 6.2.4 to be Aware of
[UPDATE] In light of this post being quoted on The Register I wanted to clarify a couple of things. First off, as mentioned there is a fix for this issue (the KB should be rewritten to clearly state that) and secondly, if you read below, you will see that I did not state that just about anyone running […] Read More
ESXi Bugs – VMware Can’t Keep Letting This Happen!
VMware is at an interesting place at this point in time…there is still no doubting that ESXi and vCenter are the market leaders in terms of Hypervisor Platform and that the vCloud Suite offers a strong portfolio of management, automation and monitoring tools. However VMware has become the hunted and is suffering what most massivly successful tech companies go […] Read More
What’s New and Thoughts – oVirt 4.5.1 for KVM and RHV
Last year, I got myself a little more involved in the world of Red Hat and general Linux Kernel based Virtualization. It had been a space that I had basically ignored during the last decade working with VMware based virtualization almost exclusively. As I wrote in this post last year, KVM virtualization was something I […] Read More
Released: Backup for Red Hat Virtualization v1a
This is a quick post to highlight the updated release build (version 1.1.11) of Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) that was released a few weeks ago on the 9th of February. This release addresses a number of bugs in the Public Beta release and can be used into production by customers with support […] Read More
vSphere 6.5 Update 1 – What’s in it for Service Providers
Late last week VMware released vSphere 6.5 Update 1 which included updated builds of both vCenter and ESXi and as per usual I will go through some of the key features and fixes that are included in the latest versions of vCenter and ESXi. When looking through the release notes I generally keep an eye […] Read More
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