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Today, 5 years after the release vSphere 5.0 and vSphere 5.1, end of support for both products has been reached and enters the technical guidance phase starts.
If not are not aware of the EOS, I encourage you to use my VMware Product End Of Support Countdown to keep an eye on EOS dates (It also supports ics based calendar reminders).
Currently, the only fully supported versions are
When you’ve installed the vSphere Management Assistant 6.0 (vMA) you very like came across its very strict password policy. With this requirements, the password recovery for vMAs is a common tasks. This post explains how to recover forgotten vMA passwords and how to use insecure, simple passwords for lab uses.
Please provide a password for the vi-admin user.
BAD PASSWORD: to short
BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word
BAD PASSWORD: is too simple
…Have exhausted maximum number of retries for service
Last week VMware 
has silently removed the download for the latest version of VMware NSX. Today the Support Insider blog, which is a great resource for first-hand field experience, reported that the NSX for vSphere 6.2.3 release has been officially pulled.
VMware recommends to suspend updates until the replacement for NSX 6.2.3 is released.
The vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 uses the Linux Logical Volume Management (LVM) that allows you to dynamically increase the disk size of the vCenter Server disks. For the vCenter server itself the process to increase the capacity is well documented in KB2126276. When you have an external Platform Services Controller, the tool mentioned in the KB is missing. You can’t use “vpxd_servicecfg storage lvm autogrow” to increase the space automatically so you have to do it manually.
This post explains how to increase the disk space for an external platform service controller.
VMware has published patches for ESXi 5.5 and 6.0:
VMware ESXi 5.5
Release date: August 4, 2016
Patch: ESXi550-201608001
Build: 4179633
Links: KB2144371 | Download
VMware ESXi 6.0
Release date: August 4, 2016
Patch: ESXi600-201608001
Build: 4192238
Links: KB2145667 | Download
Both patches are only available in the patch section, not as installable. A patch for vCenter Server 5.5 has also been released:
End of Support for vSphere 5.0 & 5.1 is reached soon. Use the following script to verify that you ESXi hosts are supported for 5.5 and 6.0. The script generated the following output that explains which releases are supported for all ESXi hosts connected to the vCenter.
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You might be aware that General Support for VMware vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 ends in about 4 weeks at August 24th. If not, I encourage you to use my VMware Product End Of Support Countdown to keep an eye on EOS dates (It also supports ics based calendar reminders).
If you are not running on ESXi 5.5 or ESXi 6.0, it is time to upgrade now. Prior to upgrade, please check VMware Compatibility Guide (HCL) to verify that your server is supported for the targeted vSphere release.
VMware has released an update for their network virtualization platform NSX. The updated fixes the Distributed Firewall Issue that forced VMware to pull NSX 6.2.3 from distribution. This update also fixes the SSL-VPN Issue announced in Security Advisory VMSA-2016-0007.2 (CVE-2016-2079).
