Sunday, January 16, 2022

VMware NSX for vSphere 6.4.x is EoGS January 16, 2022.

 VMware NSX for vSphere 6.4.x is EoGS January 16, 2022.

There is an additional one year of Technical Guidance which ends on January 16, 2023. Limited support during this year is documented below (see Resources).

Resources

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/85706

https://www.vmware.com/products/nsx/migrate-to-nsx-t.html

https://www.vmware.com/support/services/extended.html

https://www.vmware.com/support/policies/lifecycle.html

During the Technical Guidance phase, VMware will not offer new hardware support, server/client/guest OS updates, new Security patches or bug fixes unless otherwise noted.


Renaming VMware Virtual Machine and its files

Renaming VMware Virtual Machine and its files 


There are some situations where you need to rename the Virtual Machine, but renaming Virtual Machine within vCenter will not rename the folder and Virtual Machine files, this may cause confusions in the future that VM name is different and folder and file names of different from the the current VM name.

There is way to come out situation easily by performing the sVmotion (Storage vMotion) of  the Virtual Machine to different Datastore from the current datastore, This action will rename the folder and and Virtual Machine files.

There comes a situation that you are cluster is on vSAN storage and there is no other shared storage in that cluster, No worries move the Virtual Machines to local datastore of the one of the host and move them back to vSAN storage 

VMware Aria Automation New Features in versions 8.13.1, 8.13 and 8.12.2

  VMware Aria Automation New Features in versions 8.13.1, 8.13 and 8.12.2 The latest release is 8.13.1 released in September 2023 VMware is ...