VMware vSphere 5.5, the latest release of VMware's flagship virtualization hypervisor and central management server, has something for companies of all sizes. Usability and speed enhancements to the vSphere Web Client and the redesign of the vCenter single sign-on architecture are good reasons for all vSphere customers - large or small - to plan on making the move to vSphere 5.5 without delay. While most customers will make the move for those two reasons, large enterprises will gain the most new features from version 5.5 with additions like vSphere Flash Read Cache, 16GB Fibre Channel, 40GB NIC support, 62TB VMDKs, enhanced SR-IOV, and vGPU support. And small shops will appreciate the new vSphere Data Protection (disk-based backup with deduplication) and the increased scalability of the new vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA), which makes vCSA the ideal choice for vSphere management for the long term. Get virtualization right with InfoWorld's PDF guide and PDF special report. Stay up to date with. Get.
Further, all customers will enjoy the latest features found in, a performance-monitoring and capacity-planning tool now bundled in vSphere with Operations Manager editions. For those shops that skipped the, it was likely a good move as the SSO architecture was problematic. With vSphere 5.5, VMware has completely redesigned vCenter SSO to eliminate complexities and past issues. You'll find implementing vCenter SSO to be much smoother and simpler in version 5.5. What is vSphere with Operations Management? The various commercial editions of vSphere with Operations Management are composed of a number of pieces.
These include:. ESXi: The bare-metal, Type 1 hypervisor installed on physical servers. vCenter Server: The centralized management server, available in both a Windows version and the Linux-based virtual appliance edition noted above. Note that vCenter is licensed in addition to vSphere with Operations Management but is a required piece. In addition to the Standard edition, vCenter Server comes in a Foundation edition for small or remote offices. vSphere Client for Windows: The Windows-based client-side management tool for vSphere. This Windows client is still included but will soon be replaced by the Web-based client.
Advanced feature-set: Advanced management features that include vSphere vMotion, vSphere Storage vMotion, vSphere HA, and vSphere DRS, depending on the edition of vSphere you purchase. vCenter Operations Manager: A 'vApp' (containing two virtual appliances) that provides performance monitoring, alerting, and capacity management for the vSphere infrastructure. Note that the free version of the ESXi hypervisor, called simply 'the vSphere Hypervisor' (previously known as 'Free ESXi'), has been updated to version 5.5 as well. As the free vSphere hypervisor is the same code as the commercial vSphere hypervisor, it too will benefit from numerous enhancements found in the commercial edition of vSphere 5.5. (Of course, numerous restrictions apply.) No matter which edition of vSphere you purchase, the ESXi hypervisor remains the same with only the advanced feature set varying from edition to edition. In addition to the Standard, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus editions of vSphere, VMware offers specific kits called Essentials and Essentials Plus, which are designed for the small and midsized business market.
To be more specific, vSphere Essentials lacks advanced features, including vSphere vMotion, vSphere Storage vMotion, vSphere HA, and vSphere DRS. The Essentials Plus edition adds vSphere vMotion, vSphere Data Protection, and vSphere HA. At the high end of the SKUs, the vSphere Enterprise Plus edition provides you with all the advanced vSphere features that you may have heard of, including HA (High Availability), DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler), FT (Fault Tolerance), the Distributed Switch, vSphere Replication, App HA, Hot Add (for memory, CPU, and drives, including SSDs), Host Profiles, vSphere Auto Deploy, SDRS (Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler) with Storage Profiles, and much more. (See for the complete list of vSphere editions and associated features.) All editions of vSphere include a basic edition of vCenter Operations Manager called Foundation Edition.
That edition, however, doesn't contain capacity planning (an essential piece) nor a number of other important features. Although you can buy the full-fledged vCenter Operations Manager separately, you'll typically save by acquiring it with vSphere in a vSphere with Operations Management edition. Like vSphere itself, vSphere with Operations Management is available in Standard, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus editions. Thus, as vSphere and vCenter Operations Manager are really two separate (but tightly integrated) packages, let's analyze them one at a time.
What's new in vSphere 5.5 I've mentioned the increased scalability of the vCenter Server Appliance and the improved usability of the vSphere Web Client. Version 5.5 also boosts vSphere scalability by roughly doubling the host configuration maximums. The vSphere hypervisor now supports up to 320 physical CPUs, 4TB maximum memory, and 4,096 virtual CPUs per host. I also noted the overhaul to vCenter SSO. In vSphere 5.5, single sign-on resolves a number of issues that plagued many customers, especially during the upgrade process. VMware has listened to the gripes and, thankfully, completely redesigned the SSO architecture, making SSO a multimaster model, enabling automatic replication, making SSO site-aware, and getting rid of the SSO database. New virtual hardware, version 10, in vSphere 5.5 provides support for a virtual machine latency value (reducing virtualization overhead for low-latency applications), expanded vGPU support, support for VMDKs as large as 62TB, among other enhancements.
(The complete list of new vSphere 5.5 features is located.) While these are important improvements, they aren't completely new or unexpected. However, two all-new vSphere 5.5 features that, honestly, I didn't see coming are App HA and the vSphere Flash Read Cache. By utilizing VMware's vFabric Hyperic virtual appliance and application-aware agents in your critical virtual machines, App HA extends the power of vSphere HA to your important applications, either restarting the application service or rebooting the VM when things go wrong.
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At the outset, App HA supports only SQL Server, SharePoint, IIS, the Apache Web server, and vFabric Hyperic itself. Also, while App HA is certainly innovative, it is still a '1.0' version that is a challenge to get up and running.
I look forward to future editions that are more integrated with vCenter Server. Built into the vSphere hypervisor, the vSphere Flash Read Cache is a new vSphere storage tier that allows you to boost storage performance by taking advantage of read caching in direct-attached flash devices. The vSphere Flash Read Cache allows you to manage caching on a per-VM basis without the need for agents and with full vMotion consistency, preserving storage acceleration during and after a VM migration. One new and interesting VMware offering that is not included in vSphere is the Virtual SAN, aka VSAN, which allows you to create a shared storage cluster from the local storage in three to eight vSphere hosts.
Currently a beta product, VSAN will likely be sold separately, but I hope there will be a free, limited-capacity edition. VSAN is technically part of the vSphere 5.5 hypervisor that is shipping now. It's worth checking out. Changes in the works Over the last few years, vSphere has become a larger and more complex solution, and it is currently in the middle a few different changes. Three of the most noteworthy are the enhancement of the vCenter Server Appliance, the retirement of the vSphere Client for Windows, and the integration of vCloud Director and vCloud Automation Center. To address the last of these first: VMware has publicly stated that, over time, vCloud Director will be eliminated and certain features will go 'down' into vCenter while others will go 'up' into vCloud Automation Center. Thus, with the next release of vSphere, I expect to see some nice new functionality available in vCenter Server and through the vSphere Web Client.
In order to offer a centralized management solution that requires no Windows Server license, VMware created the vCenter Server Appliance - a Linux-based virtual appliance that contains a local database, a Web server, and the vCenter services (as well as other VMware-oriented services). VMware has improved the database in the vCenter Server Appliance, now offering a local vPostgres database, integrated SSO server, integrated vSphere Web Client Server, and more. With the scalability improvements, vCenter Server Appliance can now support up to 100 hosts and 3,000 virtual machines using the embedded database, and up to 1,000 hosts and 10,000 VMs using an external Oracle database. In the next release, I expect the vCenter Server Appliance to support SQL Server as an external database in addition to Oracle.
There are still some limitations. Linked mode, vCenter Server Heartbeat, Update Manager, and SRM still require a separate Windows installation (but not vCenter Server for Windows), and they aren't compatible with the vSphere Web Client. As these pieces fall into place, I predict that many companies will be making the move from vCenter Server for Windows to vCenter Server Appliance. Meanwhile the vSphere Client for Windows lives on. However, when you launch the Windows client in version 5.5, a new 'warning label' tells you this will be the last release of the vSphere Client for Windows and, in different words, that you should start using the vSphere Web Client immediately.
However, while the vSphere Web Client has been vastly improved and is now a pleasure to use, there are other hurdles to dumping the Windows-based vSphere Client outright. To be compatible with the vSphere Web Client, third parties must rewrite their application-specific plug-ins that currently run in the vSphere Client for Windows. VMware also has some work to do to make all of its add-on applications (such as Site Recovery Manager and Update Manager) completely compatible with the Web client. And finally, there is no way to deploy the vCenter Server Appliance or create your first virtual machine on a brand-new ESXi host in a new vSphere infrastructure today unless you have the vSphere Client for Windows.
What's new in vCenter Operations Manager While vCenter Server offers basic performance graphing and reporting, it doesn't offer the full functionality needed for managing performance and capacity in large vSphere environments. Ops Manager provides that performance and capacity management through deep knowledge of vCenter and vSphere (see ). Announced at VMworld 2013, vCenter Operations Manager 5.8 adds dashboards for monitoring Microsoft SQL Server and Exchange, support for Microsoft Clusters, and new storage analytics with out-of-band management and greater visibility. With this new release, you can even use Ops Manager to keep an eye on the health of Hyper-V and Amazon Web Services, including EC2 and EBS.
VMware continues to make Ops Manager more intelligent, powerful, and useful thanks to improvements like the ones in vCenter Operations Manager 5.8. With improved management support for these 'Tier 1' Microsoft apps and Hyper-V, vCenter Operations Manager could become the standard for managing multihypervisor environments (as long as vSphere is used). Note that these new version 5.8 features are available only in the vCenter Operations Manager Advanced and Enterprise editions. This means that only vSphere Operations Management customers licensed with the Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions will receive these advanced capabilities - and that the multihypervisor management features of vCenter Ops are not available in the Standard edition that most companies will have.
Nevertheless, vCenter Operations Manager is a tool that all VMware shops should use. Even if all you have is vSphere Essentials Plus and you're currently using the free vCenter Ops Manager Foundation Edition, I recommend upgrading. No matter which version of vSphere you're currently running, I also recommend upgrading to vSphere 5.5 with Operations Management. All of the new vSphere 5.5 features - SSO redesign, fast and improved Web Client, more scalable vCenter Server Appliance, flash-based read caching, Application HA, improved backup, VM enhancements, and so on - should have you looking at upgrading sooner rather than later. And for any IT manager looking for a rock-solid hypervisor and capacity management, vSphere with Operations Management remains at the top of the list. This article, ',' was originally published.
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VCenter Server 5.5 Update 3h 20 MAR 2018 Build 7874785 vCenter Server 5.5 Update 3h Installation Package 20 MAR 2018 Build 7957701 vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 Update 3h 20 MAR 2018 Build 7881688 Check for additions and updates to these release notes. What's in the Release Notes The release notes cover the following topics:. What's New vCenter Server 5.5 Update 3h addresses issues that have been documented in the section.
The update from vCenter Server 5.5 Update 3f or vCenter Server 5.5 Update 3g to vCenter Server 5.5 Update 3h affects only vCenter Server and VMware vCenter Inventory Service and you must upgrade only vCenter Server and vCenter Inventory Service components. Earlier Releases of vCenter Server 5.5 Features and known issues of vCenter Server are described in the release notes for each release. Release notes for earlier releases of vCenter Server 5.5 are:. Internationalization VMware vSphere 5.5 is available in the following languages:. English.
French. German. Japanese. Korean. Simplified Chinese. Traditional Chinese Compatibility and Installation ESXi, vCenter Server, and vSphere Web Client Version Compatibility The provides details about the compatibility of current and earlier versions of VMware vSphere components, including ESXi, VMware vCenter Server, the vSphere Web Client, and optional VMware products.
Check the also for information about supported management and backup agents before you install ESXi or vCenter Server. The vSphere Client and the vSphere Web Client are packaged on the vCenter Server ISO. You can install one or both clients by using the VMware vCenter™ Installer wizard. VSphere Client Connections to Linked Mode Environments with vCenter Server 5.x vCenter Server 5.5 can exist in Linked Mode only with other instances of vCenter Server 5.5.
Guest Operating System Customization Support The provides details about the guest operating systems supported for customization. Installation Notes for This Release Read the documentation for guidance about installing and configuring vCenter Server. Although the installations are straightforward, several subsequent configuration steps are essential. Read the following documentation:. Licensing in the documentation. Networking in the documentation. Security in the documentation for information on firewall ports Upgrades for This Release For instructions about upgrading vCenter Server, see the documentation.
For more information about the sequence in which vSphere environments need to be updated, see. Open Source Components for VMware vSphere 5.5 The copyright statements and licenses applicable to the open source software components distributed in vSphere 5.5 are available at, on the Open Source tab. You can also download the source files for any GPL, LGPL, or other similar licenses that require the source code or modifications to source code to be made available for the most recent available release of vSphere.
Product Support Notices. vSphere Web Client. Starting with vSphere 5.5 Update 2, Windows XP and Windows Vista are not supported as vSphere Client Operating System. You can find the complete list of operating system supported by vSphere Web Client in the.
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Because Linux platforms are no longer supported by Adobe Flash, vSphere Web Client is not supported on the Linux OS. Third party browsers that add support for Adobe Flash on the Linux desktop OS might continue to function. VMware vCenter Server Appliance. In vSphere 5.5, the VMware vCenter Server Appliance meets high-governance compliance standards through the enforcement of the DISA Security Technical Information Guidelines (STIG). Before you deploy VMware vCenter Server Appliance, see the VMware Hardened Virtual Appliance Operations Guide for information about the new security deployment standards and to ensure successful operations. vCenter Server database. VSphere 5.5 removes support for IBM DB2 as the vCenter Server database.
VMware Tools. Beginning with vSphere 5.5, all information about how to install and configure VMware Tools in vSphere is merged with the other vSphere documentation. For information about using VMware Tools in vSphere, see the vSphere documentation. Installing and Configuring VMware Tools is not relevant to vSphere 5.5 and later. vSphere Data Protection.
VSphere Data Protection 5.1 is not compatible with vSphere 5.5 because of a change in the way vSphere Web Client operates. VSphere Data Protection 5.1 users who upgrade to vSphere 5.5 must also update vSphere Data Protection to continue using vSphere Data Protection. Resolved Issues The resolved issues are grouped as follows. Security Issues. This updated version of vCenter Server provides part of the hypervisor-assisted guest mitigation of for guest operating systems. For important details on this mitigation, see VMware Security Advisory.
Miscellaneous Issues. You are unable to place an ESXi host into an empty Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) cluster even though the host meets the requirements Some EVC modes now contain additional CPU features that were previously not included in the EVC requirements for hosts.
To support smooth upgrade, the EVC cluster would implement the new requirements only after all the hosts in it have been upgraded to meet them. However, attempting to add a non-upgraded ESXi host to the empty EVC cluster fails. This issue is resolved in this release. Known Issues The known issues are grouped as follows.
Miscellaneous Issues. An EVC cluster might not show new CPU IDs such as Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier (IBPB) if you add a host in maintenance mode If you create an empty EVC cluster and add a host in maintenance mode, you might not see the new CPU IDs exposed by that EVC cluster. The new CPU IDs are the Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS), Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors (STIBP) and Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier (IBPB). Workaround: To work around this issue, you must not add hosts in maintenance mode to empty EVC clusters.
If you had added a host in maintenance mode to an empty EVC cluster and then added another host, not in maintenance mode, you must exit the first host from maintenance mode and remove the second host. As result, the cluster will upgrade and resync with the new CPU IDs. An EVC cluster might show new CPU IDs such as IBPB even if you revert an ESXi host to an older version When you apply the current patch to an ESXi host and add that host to an EVC cluster, if you revert the host to an older version of ESXi, the EVC cluster might still expose the new CPU IDs, such as IBRS, STIBP and IBPB. However, the ESXi host will not have any of the new CPU ID features. Workaround: To work around this issue, you must put the ESXi host in maintenance mode and move the host out of the EVC cluster.
Known Issues from Earlier Releases To view a list of previous known issues, click. Auto bharathi serial actress name. Select the Manage tab, and select vCenter Single Sign-On Users and Groups.
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Error 29107 appears during vSphere Web Client upgrade from version 5.1 Update 1a to 5.5 During an upgrade of a vSphere Web Client from version 5.1 Update U1a to version 5.5, Error 29107 appears if the vCenter Single Sign-On service that was in use before the upgrade is configured as High Availability Single Sign-On. Workaround: Perform the upgrade again. You can run the installer and select Custom Install to upgrade only the vSphere Web Client. After removing a UPN suffix from the domain, a user with that UPN suffix is still able to log in A user with a UPN suffix that is removed from the domain is still able to login for up to six hours. The Identity Manager takes up to six hours to reflect the change. Workaround: None.
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After upgrading to vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2d from earlier versions of vCenter Server 5.5, attempts to log in to the vSphere Web Client on vCenter Virtual Appliance fail with an error After you upgrade to vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2d from earlier versions of vCenter Server 5.5, attempts to log in to the vSphere Web Client on the vCenter Virtual Appliance fail with the following error message: Failed to connect to VMware Lookup Service - SSL certificate verification failed. Automatic regeneration of the SSL certificate does not resolve the problem.