VMware Workstation 12 Pro Released

August 27, 2015October 13, 2015 VMware

VMware has just released a new version of Workstation in VMware Workstation 12 Pro. Workstation 12 Pro provides full support for Windows 10, including features such as Cortana and universal applications. As well as even larger virtual machines with up to 16 vCPU’s and 64GB of memory. Workstation 12 Pro even supports 4K displays and DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3

You can even seamlessly drag and drop virtual machines between your PC and your internal cloud running vSphere, ESXi or another instance of Workstation. In addition, easily connect to vCloud Air and upload, run, and view virtual machines right from the Workstation 12 Pro interface.

VMware Workstation 12 Pro Features

Built for Windows 10 – Easily install Windows 10 in a virtual machines and test out features like Cortana the personal digital assistant, inking capabilities in the new Edge web browser, or even start building Universal Apps for Windows 10 devices. VMware Workstation 12 Pro also supports Ubuntu 15.04, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1, Fedora 22, and many more. You can even create nested hypervisors to run Hyper-V or VMware ESXi and vSphere to build up the ultimate vSphere lab for training.
Powerful 3D Graphics – VMware Workstation 12 Pro supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3 to deliver more responsive and fluid user experience, even while running demanding 3D applications like AutoCAD or SOLIDWORKS.
4K High Resolution Displays – Support for high resolution 4K UHD displays to provide crisp and detailed experience. VMware Workstation 12 Pro also now also supports multiple monitors on the host with different DPI settings, run your 4K display along your 1080P display.
Monster Virtual Machines – Create VM’s with up to 16 vCPUs, 8TB disks, 64GB of memory and even up to 2GB of video memory.
Latest Tablet Hardware – VMware Workstation 12 Pro allows you to take advantage of the latest Microsoft Surface tablets with Workstation’s virtual accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, and ambient light sensor to enable applications running in the virtual machines to respond when a user moves, rotates, and shakes their tablet.
Enhanced Connectivity – Workstation 12 Pro now supports USB 3.0 in Windows 7 besides Windows 8 for ultra-fast file transfers with external storage devices. In addition Workstation 12 Pro improves performance of Skype or Lync conference calls within guest virtual machines so you can conduct crystal clear conference calls from your virtual machines

Compare VMware Workstation 10 and 11 to Workstation 12 Pro

VMware Workstation 12 Pro will cost $249.99.

Power off an unresponsive VM using ESXTOP

February 2, 2016February 3, 2016 VMware

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Just recently we have some hardware issues in our primary datacenter and during that time had a few VM’s that became unresponsive and needed to get them back online. The VM’s had stopped responding to the normal vSphere commands to reboot, shutdown or even restart. I didn’t want to power cycle the entire ESXi host and instead just power off an unresponsive VM.

Here is a quick and easy way to do just that using ESXTOP.

VMware Horizon View White Papers

May 19, 2013 VMware

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VMware has been on a roll here lately releasing new technical white papers for VMware Horizon View. If you already have a View environment or about to roll one out, I’d recommend reading these papers to make sure you’re following the recommended best practices.

Also, be sure to check out my View Windows 7 Optimization Guide as well.

How to fix “SRA command discoverArrays failed” in SRM with RecoverPoint

April 25, 2016August 10, 2017 VMware

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We’ve ran into an issue trying to get VMware SRM and SRA 2.2.0.3 along with EMC Recoverpoint 4.1.2 to communicate with one another and would receive this error in SRM:

SRA command discoverArrays failed. Failed opening session for user to site mgmt IP.

Please see server logs for further details.

After some digging around a bit and talking with the Storage Team and EMC we found out that this is due to the SRA’s using HTTP by default and Recoverpoint 4.1.2 does not accept HTTP, but instead only accepts HTTPS or port 443. The steps below is how to get everything to default HTTPS and then communication will resume.

VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.2 – No more Windows

May 10, 2019 VMware

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VMware has just announced the release of Site Recovery Manager 8.2. There are a number of new items in SRM 8.2, such as enhancements to the HTML5 user interface, support for vSphere 6.7 Update 2, but most notably is Site Recovery Manager 8.2 virtual appliance!

No more Microsoft Windows license needed! The SRM 8.2 virtual appliance runs on the Photon OS distro, which is similar to what the vCenter virtual appliance has been running on for years now.

How to upgrade vCenter Server Appliance from 5.x to 6.0

March 15, 2015October 15, 2015 VMware

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VMware vSphere 6.0 has finally been released as GA on March 12th and with it out of beta I hope to post several “how-to” posts, this being the first on how to upgrade your vCenter Server Appliance from 5.1/5.5 to vCSA 6.0. So lets get started…

Prerequisites:

vCSA 6.0 ISO downloaded and mounted or burned to disc.
Installed Client Integration Plugin (located in the vcsa folder on the ISO).

VMware Workstation 8.0.4 released

June 14, 2012July 5, 2012 VMware

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VMware has just released it’s forth minor update for VMware Workstation 8, bringing it up to 8.0.4. The looks to contain mostly a few bug and security fixes.

General Issues

Linux guests running the Linux kernel version 2.6.34 or later could not be pinged from the host via an IPv6 address.
On rare occasions, Linux guests would suddenly fail to Autofit or enter Unity.
Unity mode would exit if the title bar of an application contained certain non UTF-8 encoded extended ASCII characters.
On Windows hosts, the VMware Workstation user interface sometimes became unresponsive when minimized from full-screen mode if the suggestion balloon was being displayed.
On Windows hosts, the user interface sometimes became unresponsive if the application was rendered on an extended display that was abruptly disconnected.

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