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VMware Tools 12.2.6 | 17 AUG 2023 | Build No 22229486 – release notes

Freitag, August 25th, 2023

VMware Tools 12.2.6 Release Notes

VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas – VMware Cloud NSX+ vSAN Max and more

Donnerstag, August 24th, 2023

DietPi v8.20 – VMware vSphere and ESXi install

Mittwoch, August 23rd, 2023

VMware vSphere & vSAN 8 Update 1 – Express Storage Architecture (ESA) performance improvements

Montag, August 21st, 2023

RVTools 4.4.3 – the best practice health analyzer for VMware vSphere

Montag, August 21st, 2023

VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 8.x) – Performance Counter Description

Dienstag, August 1st, 2023

All performance metrics that are available in vSphere vCenter Server 8.0 Performance counters can be viewed for Virtual Machines  Hosts Clusters Resource Pools and other objects by opening Monitor > Performance > Advanced in the vSphere Client

These performance counters can also be used for performance analysis with PowerShell/PowerCLI

PS> Get-Stat -entity (Get-VM <VMNAME>) -realtime -stat „cpu.usage.average“

VMware Workstation – Public Tech Preview 2023

Mittwoch, Juli 19th, 2023

VMware Workstation – Public Tech Preview 2023

VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 8.x) ‚esxtop‘ – a command line interface that provides real-time data on the ESXi host and its virtual machines

Samstag, Juli 15th, 2023

VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 8.x) ‚esxtop‘  – the Ultimate Guide

VMware Tools 12.2.5 – release notes

Donnerstag, Juni 15th, 2023

VMware Tools 12.2.5 – release notes

RVTools 4.4.2 – the best practice health analyzer for VMware vSphere

Donnerstag, Juni 8th, 2023

VMware vSphere & vSAN 8 Update 1 – Express Storage Architecture Deep Dive

Sonntag, Mai 14th, 2023

VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 8.x) – USB network native driver for ESXi Fling version 1.12 now supports vSphere 8 Update 1

Freitag, Mai 12th, 2023

Prerequisites:
PowerCLI 13 (v13 required for ESXi 8 support)
ESXi 8 depot zip file (Offline Bundle)
USB Network native driver zip file (Offline Bundle)
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> cd C:\esxi
PS C:\esxi>
PS C:\esxi> Add-EsxSoftwareDepot https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml
PS C:\esxi> Export-ESXImageProfile -ImageProfile „ESXi-8.0U1-21495797-standard“ -ExportToBundle -filepath ESXi-8.0U1-21495797-standard.zip
PS C:\esxi> Remove-EsxSoftwareDepot https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml
PS C:\esxi> Add-EsxSoftwareDepot .\ESXi-8.0U1-21495797-standard.zip
PS C:\esxi> Add-EsxSoftwareDepot .\ESXi80U1-VMKUSB-NIC-FLING-64098092-component-21669994.zip
PS C:\esxi> New-EsxImageProfile -CloneProfile „ESXi-8.0U1-21495797-standard“ -name „ESXi-8.0U1-21495797-USBNIC“ -Vendor „virten.net“
PS C:\esxi> Add-EsxSoftwarePackage -ImageProfile „ESXi-8.0U1-21495797-USBNIC“ -SoftwarePackage „vmkusb-nic-fling“
PS C:\esxi> Export-ESXImageProfile -ImageProfile „ESXi-8.0U1-21495797-USBNIC“ -ExportToIso -filepath ESXi-8.0U1-21495797-USBNIC.iso
PS C:\esxi> Export-ESXImageProfile -ImageProfile „ESXi-8.0U1-21495797-USBNIC“ -ExportToBundle -filepath ESXi-8.0U1-21495797-USBNIC.zip

VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 8.x) Update 1 – USB Network Native Driver for ESX v1.12 Fling

Mittwoch, Mai 10th, 2023

VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 8.x) – how to update and patch a standalone server we need to run a command from the CLI to apply a patch we download from VMware

Mittwoch, Mai 10th, 2023
[root@RA-VMWARE8-03:~] esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient
[root@RA-VMWARE8-03:~] esxcli software sources profile list -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml | grep -i ESXi-8
ESXi-8.0.0-20513097-standard VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported 2022-09-23T18:59:28 2022-09-23T18:59:28
ESXi-8.0.0-20513097-no-tools VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported 2022-09-23T18:59:28 2022-09-23T18:59:28
ESXi-8.0a-20842819-standard VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported 2022-12-08T00:00:00 2022-12-08T00:00:00
ESXi-8.0a-20842819-no-tools VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported 2022-12-08T00:00:00 2022-11-24T05:47:13
ESXi-8.0sb-21203431-standard VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported 2023-02-14T00:00:00 2023-02-14T00:00:00
ESXi-8.0sb-21203431-no-tools VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported 2023-02-14T00:00:00 2023-01-30T05:35:42
ESXi-8.0b-21203435-standard VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported 2023-02-14T00:00:00 2023-02-14T00:00:00
ESXi-8.0b-21203435-no-tools VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported 2023-02-14T00:00:00 2023-01-30T07:21:34
ESXi-8.0c-21493926-standard VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported 2023-03-30T00:00:00 2023-03-30T00:00:00
ESXi-8.0c-21493926-no-tools VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported 2023-03-30T00:00:00 2023-03-24T16:36:33
ESXi-8.0U1-21495797-standard VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported 2023-04-18T00:00:00 2023-04-18T00:00:00
ESXi-8.0U1-21495797-no-tools VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported 2023-04-18T00:00:00 2023-03-25T02:02:48
[root@RA-VMWARE8-03:~]
[root@RA-VMWARE8-03:~] esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-8.0U1-21495797-standard -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml
[root@RA-VMWARE8-03:~] reboot
[root@RA-VMWARE8-03:~] esxcli software profile get

VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 7.x) – how to update and patch a standalone server we need to run a command from the CLI to apply a patch we download from VMware

Dienstag, Mai 9th, 2023