New KB articles published for week ending 5/16/15

Datacenter

VMware products not affected by CVE-2015-3456, aka VENOM (2117469)

Date Published: 5/16/2015

VMware App Volumes

Creating a new App Volumes AppStack template VMDK smaller than 20 GB (2116022)

Date Published: 5/15/2015

VMware Continuent for Analytics and Big Data

The command tungsten_provision_thl fails when using Percona Server (2111054)

Date Published: 5/12/2015

The MySQL client or the application querying MySQL reports the error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query (2111499)

Date Published: 5/12/2015

A VMware Continuent process reports an Out Of Memory error (2111511)

Date Published: 5/14/2015

Unable to update the configuration of an installed directory (2111868)

Date Published: 5/12/2015

Installing VMware Continuent fails with the Segmentation Fault (2115619)

Date Published: 5/14/2015

VMware Continuent for Replication

Continuent Replicator is in OFFLINE:ERROR state due to OutOfMemoryError (2111515)

Date Published: 5/14/2015

VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi 5.5 host experiences a purple diagnostic screen after enabling vFlash Read Cache (2114498)

Date Published: 5/11/2015

VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch Release ESXi600-201505001 (2116125)

Date Published: 5/14/2015

VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch ESXi600-201505401-BG: Updates esx-base (2116126)

Date Published: 5/14/2015

VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch ESXi-6.0.0-20150504001-no-tools (2116129)

Date Published: 5/14/2015

Trouble Deploying OVF Template from vSphere datastore (2117310)

Date Published: 5/12/2015

ESXi 5.0 host fails with purple diagnostic screen reporting E1000FinalizeZeroCopyPktForTx (2115113)

Date Published: 5/14/2015

Removing a Auto Deployed ESXi host from the vCenter Server the host fails to complete provisioning on first boot (2116320)

Date Published: 5/14/2015

Syslog.log file of Dell hosts shows multiple entries of error message: IpmiIfcRhFruInv: Reading FRU header for 0xc FAILED cc=0xc3 (2116980)

Date Published: 5/11/2015

Understanding the vSphere Autodeploy Stateless/Stateful Caching Disk selection process with the remote parameter selection in Host Profiles (2115896)

Date Published: 5/11/2015

Enabling or disabling virtual machine logging while the virtual machine is powered on fails with the error: The attempted operation cannot be performed in the current state (Powered on) (2114342)

Date Published: 5/11/2015

VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch ESXi-6.0.0-20150504001-standard (2116127)

Date Published: 5/14/2015

Adding a vmnic to a VMware ESXi host connected to a vSphere Distributed Switch fails after upgrading from version 5.5 to 6.0 with the error: Unsupported address family (2117308)

Date Published: 5/13/2015

VMware Horizon DaaS

Show all records in Users Mapping Report displays only 100 results in Horizon DaaS (2116393)

Date Published: 5/15/2015

VMware Integrated OpenStack

VMware Integrated Openstack plug-in is not visible in the vSphere Web Client (2112339)

Date Published: 5/11/2015

VMware Mirage

Best practices for Mirage managed VMware View desktops (2104176)

Date Published: 5/15/2015

VMware NSX for vSphere

Re-connecting ESXi hosts to VMware NSX for vSphere 6.1.x Controllers fails after a complete rebuilt of the Controllers (2112838)

Date Published: 5/11/2015

VMware User Environment Manager

Logging into a Windows 7 system with Immidio FlexPlus 8.2.x installed can result in a black screen and fails (2116399)

Date Published: 5/15/2015

VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator

VMware vRealize Infrastructure Navigator 5.8.4 shows IIS 8.0 or higher as Unknown (2112456)

Date Published: 5/11/2015

VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vApp)

Upgrading hosts that are monitored by vCenter Operations Manager to ESXi 5.1 Update 3 causes some metrics to move to other groups (2117491)

Date Published: 5/14/2015

VMware vCenter Server

vSphere 6.0 Web Client displays the error: Unable to load recent tasks from one or more vCenter Server systems: No matching LinkedVcGroup Found (2116062)

Date Published: 5/12/2015

Disabling Fault Tolerance manually on the ESXi host when vCenter server is not available (2116110)

Date Published: 5/11/2015

vApps in vCenter Server and vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 and 6.0 do not obey the shutdown order when the IP allocation policy is set to DHCP (2117445)

Date Published: 5/14/2015

Installation or Upgrade of vCenter Server 6.0 with an external Platform Service Controller fails with the error: install.vmafd.join_vmdir_failed ERROR: 1, join vmdir failed (2117378)

Date Published: 5/15/2015

Creating a virtual machine in vCenter Server 5.5 and 6.0 only displays one datastore option with Storage DRS enabled (2117430)

Date Published: 5/13/2015

VMware vCenter Server Appliance

WinSCP fails to connect to the vCenter Server Virtual Appliance 6.0 with the error: Received too large SFTP packet (2115983)

Date Published: 5/12/2015

VMware vCenter Update Manager

vSphere Web Client 6.0 shows the service status as unknown for the VMware vSphere Update Manager 6.0 (2117305)

Date Published: 5/13/2015

VMware vCloud Automation Center

Logging out of the VMware vRealize Automation portal generates a HTTP Status 403 error (2114612)

Date Published: 5/11/2015

VMware vCloud Director

Attaching an External Network to an Edge in VMware vCloud Director causes packet loss (2117748)

Date Published: 5/15/2015

Enabling HA on a VMware vShield Edge in vCloud Director causes Packet Loss (2117744)

Date Published: 5/15/2015

Adding an Address to a Sub Allocated IP Pool for a Edge in vCloud causes Packet Loss (2117751)

Date Published: 5/15/2015

VMware Virtual SAN

Understanding Virtual SAN 6.0 memory consumption (2113954)

Date Published: 5/12/2015

VMware vRealize Automation

VMware vRealize Operations health badges are not visible after upgrading to vRealize Automation 6.2.x (2116718)

Date Published: 5/12/2015

VMware vRealize Log Insight

VMware vRealize Log Insight 2.5 startup fails with the error: Unable to gossip with any seeds (2117471)

Date Published: 5/14/2015

VMware vRealize Operations Manager

vRealize Operations Manager installation fails in a Linux environment when X11 is not available (2111891)

Date Published: 5/11/2015

Installation of VMware vRealize Operations Manager fails on a Linux system with low free disk space (2112291)

Date Published: 5/11/2015

Configuring VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.0.x Health, Risk and Efficiency badges to be calculated in a similar fashion to VMware vRealize Operations Manager 5.x (2113968)

Date Published: 5/12/2015

In VMware vRealize Operations Manager the Resources in the Object Relationship widget on a custom dashboard cannot be selected (2117284)

Date Published: 5/14/2015

VMware vRealize Operations Manager fails to upgrade on a Linux system if JRE is not installed (2112290)

Date Published: 5/11/2015