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VMware vCloud suite 5.8 and Horizon View 6.0.1 product updates

September 10, 2014September 10, 2014

Yesterday ( 9 September 2014) VMware released updates to the vCloud Suite 5.8 suite and VMware Horizon View components. Here is a overview of the updated products:

VMware ESXi 5.5 Update 2 Build 2068190, Release Notes
vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2 Build 2001466, Release notes
VMware vSphere Replication 5.8 Build 2055179, Release notes
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.8 Build 2056894, Release notes
vSphere Data Protection (VDP) and VDP Advanced 5.8, Release notes
VMware vCenter Orchestrator 5.5.2, Release Notes
vCloud Networking and Security 5.5.3 Build 2081508, Release notes
VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.8.3, Release notes
vCloud Automation Center 6.1 Build 2077124, Release notes
VCAC 6.1 Pre-req Automation Script, Link
VMware vCloud Automation Center Application Services 6.1.0, Release notes
IT Business Management Standard Edition Build 2074955, Release notes
vCloud Director 5.5.2 Build 2000523, Release notes
VMware vSphere CLI 5.5 Update 2, Release notes
VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.8 Release 1 Build 2057893 , Release notes
VMware Horizon 6.0.1 with View, Release notes
VMware Horizon View Clients 3.1.0, Link
VMware Workspace Portal 2.1, Release Notes
ThinApp 5.1 | 09 September 2014 | Build 2079447, Release Notes
vCenter Operations Manager for Horizon 1.7, Release Notes
Horizon vCenter Orchestrator Plug-In 1.1, Release Notes

After upgrading vSphere 4 to 5 the Fusion-IO card is in minimal mode

December 3, 2013

Last week I did a VMware vSphere and VMware View 4 to 5 upgrade. The ESXi servers for the VMware View environment uses Fusion-IO (HP IO Accelerators) PCI flash cards for there non-persistent VDI pools. After the upgrade to vSphere 5.1 I imported the latest Fusion-IO drivers and created a baseline in vSphere Update Manager (VUM) and deployed the new drivers to the cluster.

After the installation of the Fusion-IO drivers on the ESXi hosts, the Fusion-IO card was not listed in the vSphere (Web) client. Via SSH I make a connection the the ESXi servers. When i run the fio-status command the following warning appeared:

Driver is in Minimal mode: The firmware on this device is not compatible with the currently installed version of the driver.

ACTIVE WARNINGS: The ioMemory is currently running in a minimal state.

The warning means that the firmware needs to be upgraded. I uploaded the firmware to a central datastore and run the following command:

fio-update-iodrive firmwarefilename.fff

When the firmware upgrade completed, the ESXi servers needed to restart.

After the rebootI checked the status with the fio-status command again. The Fusion-IO card is out of minimal mode.

After the firmware upgrade the Fusion-IO card is listed again.

VMware vSphere 5.5 available for download

September 22, 2013

Today VMware vSphere 5.5 has become available for download. If you want a quick overview of the new features of vSphere 5 read the white paper called “What’s New in vSphere 5.5” found here. The vSphere 5.5 bits can be downloaded here and the documentation can be found here.