Patching the vCenter Server Appliance in vSphere 7.0 has become a lucky bag. When you try to update using the vCenters VAMI, you either have greyed out STAGE ONLY and STAGE AND INSTALL buttons:
The installation fails with "Exception occurred in install precheck phase" errors, rendering the VAMI unusable:
Or the installation gets stuck on Downloading RPM vsphere-ui-[version].rpm:
When you try to install a VMware ESXi Update using esxcli, the upgrade fails with the following error message:
"[Errno 28] No space left on device"
The problem is caused by ESXi not having enough free space available to extract the installation packages. This article explains how to solve the issue by enabling swapping to a Datastore.
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To get ESXi installed on a 10th Gen Intel NUC you need a customized image at the moment. How to create the custom image is explained here. The problem is that the ne1000 driver, which is bundled in ESXi 7.0, is not compatible with the NUCs Gigabit Network interface. When you now try to install the latest ESXi patch, the driver is overwritten with the non-working default ne1000 driver.
The solution is quite simple. You can either install the working driver again after patching or create a custom ESXi 7.0b image. The method described here is specific for ESXi 7.0b but might also work for future releases, as long as ESXi 7 is not equipped with a ne1000 driver supporting Intels latest I219-V.
Read More »How to Install or Upgrade ESXi 7.0b on 10th Gen Intel NUC
VMware has just released vSphere 6.5 Update 1 including the following producs:
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VMware has released vSphere 6.0 Update 3. That update only contains minor changes, no noteworthy new features have been added. Together with 6.0 U3, the following product updates were released today:
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VMware has just released vSphere 6.0 Update 2. Together with the Updates, the following product updates were released today:
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VMware has just released vSphere 5.5 Update 3. Together with the Updates, the following products were released today:
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VMware has just released vSphere 6.0 Update 1. Together with the Updates, the following products were released today:
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VMware has published an update for vCenter Server 5.0 and 5.1 where CVE-2014-6593 (SKIP-TLS) has been fixed.
It was discovered that the SSL/TLS implementation in the JSSE component in OpenJDK failed to properly check whether the ChangeCipherSpec was received during the SSL/TLS connection handshake. A man-in-the-middle attacker could possibly use this flaw to force a connection to be established without encryption being enabled. The update has been already fixed in newer versions of vCenter Server (6.0a, 5.5 Update 2e). More information are available in VMSA-2015-0003.Read More »vCenter Server 5.0/5.1 Update - CVE-2014-6593 (SKIP-TLS)
VMware has published an update for vCenter Server 5.5.
Product: VMware vCenter Server 5.5
Release date: January 27, 2015
Version: 5.5 Update 2d
Build (Windows): 2442329
Build (Installer): 2442328
Build (Appliance): 2442330
The Update resolves 16 issues including the following:Read More »vCenter Server 5.5 January 2015 Update (5.5 U2d)
