Month: May 2015

Microsoft Windows 7 virtual machines running on ESXi 6.0 hosts restart unexpectedly There has been a new bug reported by VMware that is currently unsolved and causes MS Windows 7 VMs to restart without any warning on an ESXi 6.0 host. If you can find entries like the following within the vmkwarning.log files then you’re affected. …

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Some days ago I stumbled upon a real cool blog post from Chris Wahl about his progress in creating a Grafana dashboard and filling data from PowerCLI. I checked Grafana by myself, trying his manual and it’s a pretty amazing open source project 100% worth trying. Behind Grafana is the team of raintank.io, also worth …

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How we use New Relic and Docker at Opvizor New Relic, Inc, the software analytics company, announced recently an addition of features for Docker container monitoring, currently in open public beta.  Docker is now widely used, or at least evaluated, in enterprise environments for its strong modularization and application distribution capabilities. Docker containers can be …

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VMware Backup using Changed Block Tracking failed after upgrading to VMware ESXi 6.0 VMware published a fix for the CBT issue causing VMware backups to fail when using VMware ESXi 6.0 as the hypervisor. So far the workaround was to disable Changed Block Tracking that caused long backup windows. All customers that were using CBT to backup …

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Lots of users were scared when reading about the latest vulnerability – VENOM, that attacks virtual machines through the virtual floppy drive. Photo courtesy of Crowdstrike http://venom.crowdstrike.com/ VENOM, CVE-2015-3456is a security vulnerability in the virtual floppy drive code used by many computer virtualization platforms. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to escape from the confines …

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As you know as a reader of our blog posts, we cover also Knowledge Base articles that describe what we continously see in customers’ environments. After releasing many blog articles and product features as well as products covering VMware VM snapshots we received a lot of feedback regarding Snapshot related issues from the community. One …

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Configuration of  a nested vSphere 6.0 ESXi Host Configuring the ESXi The ESXi is installed. Next steps are to configure the ESXi and add it to the vCenter. When booting the host it will try to fetch an IP-address using DHCP. Since I don’t want to use (and wouldn’t recommend) DHCP for hypervisors I’ll reconfigure …

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We received so many requests about monthly payment options especially from customers running smaller VMware vSphere environments, that we decided to react. It’s Spring time, so we had some ideas. Photo courtesy of SpaceShoe [Learning to live with the crisis](CC Attribution) Therefore you might already have noticed the current promotions that are running. We just …

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