New KB articles published for week ending 11/19/16

Datacenter
Update sequence for vSphere 6.5 and its compatible VMware products (2147289)
Date Published: 11/15/2016

VMware ESX
Build-Nummern und Versionen von VMware ESXi/ESX (2147777)
Date Published: 11/14/2016

VMware ESXi
Managing TLS protocol configuration for vSphere 6.5 (2147469)
Date Published: 11/17/2016
SCSI-3 persistent reservation keys lost due to Lost path redundancy to storage device (2147535)
Date Published: 11/14/2016
Packets are duplicated in a vSphere Standard Switch or a vSphere Distributed Switch (2147616)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Configuration options related to event syslog messages (2147620)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Wake-on-LAN cannot be enabled on a Broadcom NIC (2147622)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Migrate Auto Deploy service from one vCenter Server instance on Windows to another (2147636)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Important information about the new ESXi 6.5 USB driver vmkusb, and the legacy USB drivers (2147650)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Programming the Verbs API for a PVRDMA Device on ESXi 6.5 Hosts (2147694)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Reconciling Discrepancies in the Managed Virtual Disk Catalog (2147750)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
RegisterDisk() on Managed Virtual Disks Can Fail Intermittently (2147764)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Slow backup performance using NBD transport mode (2147768)
Date Published: 11/14/2016
Snapshots virtueller Maschinen konnen nicht geloscht werden (2147801)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch Release ESXi600-201608001 (2147802)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
ESXi 6.0-Host wird von vCenter Server getrennt (2147803)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
“No Data Available” message in Hardware Status tab of ESXi host (2147808)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
,,msg.snapshot.error-QUIESCING-ERROR” in vCenter Server (2147814)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
ESXi 6.0-Host verliert die Netzwerkkonnektivitat nach dem Zufallsprinzip (2147816)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Migrating VMFS 5 datastore to VMFS 6 datastore (2147824)
Date Published: 11/17/2016

VMware ESXi
Attaching edited host profile with VVols configuration might trigger compliance errors (2146394)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
I/O filter installed on a host stopped functioning (2145295)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Devices deprecated and unsupported in ESXi 6.5 (2145810)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Rebooting Linux guest operating systems after upgrading VMware Tools (2147455)
Date Published: 11/16/2016
An I/O filter might fail to uninstall due to file system errors on the altbootbank partition (2147556)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Enabling and Disabling Native Drivers in ESXi 6.5 (2147565)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
How to register a VM to the Inventory in vCenter Server 6.5 (2147569)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Name change from vShield Endpoint Drivers to Guest Introspection Drivers causes silent install script to fail (2147571)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Login error received when plug-ins take longer than expected to install (2147572)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Guest OS does not detect hot add, remove, or extend disk changes to the NVMe Controller (2147574)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Mouse not working in VMs using Linux OS with UEFI and Secure Boot enabled (2147575)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Cannot hot add a USB device to a VM from an ESXi server (2147576)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Virtual machine deployment from a VMFS datastore to a vSphere Virtual Volumes datastore might fail (2147591)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Troubleshooting a file-based restore of the vCenter Server Appliance or Platform Services Controller appliance with DHCP network configuraion (2147596)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
FTP server or network issues can cause a backup or restore operation to fail (2147597)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
ESXi 6.5, earlier versions might not enable all VFs of PCI SR-IOV device (2147604)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Cannot enable secure boot on ESXi 6.5 host that was upgraded (2147606)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Provisioning a lazyZeroedThick managed virtual disk on NFS datastore has vCenter Server reporting the disk as thin (2147607)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
vCenter Server Database Health Alarm causes vCenter Server to shut down (2147618)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Events are deleted with delay (2147621)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Attempts to enable the multi-writer virtual disk option on an NFS datastore fail (2147691)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Cannot log in to vCenter Server using vSphere Web Client on vCenter Server HA setup joined to domain (2147692)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
ESXi 6.5 I/O driver information: certified 5.5 and 6.0 I/O drivers are compatible with vSphere 6.5 (2147697)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
ESXi might fail when you power off VM with SR-IOV Passthrough Adapter (2147713)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Using Virtual NVMe With ESXi 6.5 and virtual machine Hardware Version 13 (2147714)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Manually breaking replication in the stretched storage environment causes data corruption and other problems (2147752)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
End of Availability and End of Support for FCoE on Intel Network Controllers (2147786)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Uploading files to a vSphere service might fail (2147256)
Date Published: 11/15/2016

VMware EVO SDDC
Collecting diagnostic information for VMware Cloud Foundation (2147070)
Date Published: 11/17/2016

VMware Identity Manager
VMware Identity Manager upgrade fails to complete “Failue: Error while running package installation” (2147629)
Date Published: 11/15/2016

VMware Integrated OpenStack
VMware Integrated Openstack resize instance booted from cinder volume gives Error: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘backing’ (2146469)
Date Published: 11/14/2016
VIO VMware Integrated Openstack deployment fails at TASK: [config-local | import image into glance] (2146546)
Date Published: 11/14/2016
VIO in Error status state Fails to Update NSX Password (2146760)
Date Published: 11/14/2016
VIO Admin role is global in scope once assigned (2147534)
Date Published: 11/14/2016
VIO Defining LDAP Groups and Users Best Practices (2147555)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
VIO – FQDN Change After initial Deployment (2147624)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
[Internal] Importing existing VM fails when nova compute is backed by only vsan datastore (2147740)
Date Published: 11/14/2016

VMware Integrated OpenStack
VIO OpenStack API call fails with message “Quota exceeded for resources” (2145789)
Date Published: 11/16/2016
[Internal VIO procedure for accessing and backing up VMware Integrated OpenStack Data Bases (2146427)
Date Published: 11/14/2016
VIO 2.5 Resize operation fails with “Remote error: DBError (DataError) (1406, “Data too long for column ‘dest_host’ at row 1?)” (2146421)
Date Published: 11/14/2016
VIO – VMware Integrated Openstack failure when a a vSphere operation succeeds after prolonged period of time greater than 2hrs (2146465)
Date Published: 11/14/2016
VIO How to delete a volume snapshot that is reporting “State Error” or “Error_Deleting” (2145851)
Date Published: 11/14/2016
VIO Internal error: REST API transport layer error when changing LDAP configuration (2147408)
Date Published: 11/14/2016
[Internal] VIO Compact mode deployment fails with Internal Server Error message (2147715)
Date Published: 11/15/2016

VMware NSX for vSphere
Status of TLSv1.1/1.2 Enablement and TLSv1.0 Disablement across VMware products (2145796)
Date Published: 11/15/2016

VMware Site Recovery Manager
Operational Limits for Site Recovery Manager 6.5 (2147110)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Network Ports for Site Recovery Manager 6.5 (2147112)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
TLS Configuration Options For Site Recovery Manager 6.1.1 (2145910)
Date Published: 11/16/2016

VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator
Binding Between vCenter and vRealize Infrastructure Navigator Fails (2147673)
Date Published: 11/16/2016

VMware vCenter Log Insight
Upgrade to vRealize Log Insight 4.0.0 fails with error ‘State mismatch on bucket’ (2147738)
Date Published: 11/17/2016

VMware vCenter Operations Enterprise
License status reportedly overused in vRealize Operations Manager (2147021)
Date Published: 11/17/2016

VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vApp)
Items not loading in the UI after upgrading vRealize Operations Manager (2147656)
Date Published: 11/16/2016

VMware vCenter Server
Incomplete deletion of chains of managed virtual disks. (2147767)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
vCenter Server Upgrade Fails because of Missing Database Tables and Constraints (2147549)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Estimating the time for migration of vCenter Server 5.5 or 6.0 to vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 (2147711)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Migration to vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 Update 2 fails during vCenter Orchestrator installation (2147264)
Date Published: 11/17/2016
Virtual Machine File System I/O operations time out (2145293)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
I/O access on Virtual Machine File System returns invalid metadata error (2145294)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Network logging to remote syslog collector stopped (2145296)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Configuring Platform Service Controller HA in vSphere 6.5 (2147018)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Configuring NSX Edge Load Balancer for use with vSphere Platform Services Controller (PSC) 6.5 (2147046)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Configuring Windows PSC for High Availability in vSphere 6.5 (2147527)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Detect and Update Duplicate Names of Distributed Virtual Switches and Distributed Virtual Portgroups before Upgrading vCenter Server (2147547)
Date Published: 11/16/2016
Important information before upgrading to vSphere 6.5 (2147548)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Connect a vCenter Server System to a Key Management Server (KMS) (2147566)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Cannot access a USB 3.0 device through a virtual machine’s USB 2.0 controller (2147568)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Exporting support bundles in vSphere Web Client generates corrupts vc-support ZIP file (2147570)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Selecting HWv12 or HWv13 for VM compatibility when creating VM or updating VM compatibility (2147573)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Extending a VMDK of a Linux VM does not update the VMDK size (2147577)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Enabling iSCSI boot in UEFI boot mode for ESXi (2147578)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Deprecation of hypervisor binary translation mode (2147608)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Configuring certificates for Windows Platform Services Controller for High Availability in vSphere 6.55 (2147626)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
The vSphere Data Protection icon is missing from the vSphere Web Client Home page (2147633)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Host fails with a purple diagnostic screen when the Internet Protocol Flow Information Export is enabled (2147687)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Naming convention for SATA devices can cause an ESXi scripted upgrade to fail (2147718)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
How to enable EVC in vCenter Server 6.5 (2147821)
Date Published: 11/15/2016

VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Interacting with the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 embedded vPostgres Database (2147285)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Interacting with the VMware Update Manager 6.5 embedded vPostgres Database (2147300)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Data collected when gathering diagnostic information from vSphere products (2147388)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
How to reset the lost or forgotten root password in vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 (2147144)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Stopping / Starting / Restarting Services in vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 (2147152)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
How to manually add a second NIC to the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 for VCHA (2147155)
Date Published: 11/15/2016

VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5.x
Increasing the disk space for the VMware vCenter Server Appliance in vSphere 6.5 (2145603)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Configuring Netscaler Load Balancer to provide the PSC 6.5 High Availability (2147014)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Configuring F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer for use with vSphere Platform Services Controller (PSC) 6.5 (2147038)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Resetting VMware Update Manager Database on a vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 (2147284)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Configuring PSC Appliance for High Availability in vSphere 6.5 (2147384)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Upgrade or Migration to vCenter Server 6.5 Fails because of Database Upgrade (2147558)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
A vCenter Server Appliance and a Platform Services Controller appliance display incorrect local time for Turkey Time (TRT) (2147619)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Configuring certificates for PSC for High Availability in vSphere 6.5 (2147627)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Upgrading or Rebooting an ESXi Host with Auto Deploy Stateless Caching, vSphere Distributed Switch Configuration, and a Fault Tolerance Virtual Machine (2147655)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Supported and deprecated topologies for VMware vSphere 6.5 (2147672)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Upgrading to vCenter Server 6.5 Best Practices (2147686)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Enabling vCenter Server HA fails with a more than one datastore error (2147761)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
“Internal error occurs during Export of vSphere ESX Agent Manager” error when migrating vCenter Server 6.0 to 6.5 (2147898)
Date Published: 11/17/2016
Troubleshooting Tools for Networking on vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 (2147148)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Manually running fsck on vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 (2147154)
Date Published: 11/15/2016

VMware Virtual Disk Development
Unable to use SAN advanced VDDK transport mode to open virtual disk on new SAN datastore (2147843)
Date Published: 11/17/2016

VMware Virtual SAN
Virtual SAN Health Service – Virtual SAN iSCSI target service – Home object (2147601)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Virtual SAN Health Service – Virtual SAN iSCSI target service – Network configuration (2147602)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Virtual SAN Health Service – Virtual SAN iSCSI target service – Service runtime status (2147603)
Date Published: 11/15/2016

VMware vRealize Automation
Exception ‘Untrusted certificate chain’ after replacing vRA certificate (2147612)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
Unable to sync with Identity source after changing DC name in vRA 7.x (2147737)
Date Published: 11/16/2016
Hotfix to add Keystone v3 Identity Provider support to vRA 7.0.1 Openstack endpoint (2147825)
Date Published: 11/16/2016
Machine costs in vRA are not reflecting with the costs associated in vRB (2147443)
Date Published: 11/16/2016

VMware vRealize Business for Cloud Standard
Cannot login to vRealize Business for Cloud registered with VMware Identity Manager (2146808)
Date Published: 11/17/2016

VMware vRealize Infrastructure Navigator
Disabling TLSv1 Support in vRealize Infrastructure Navigator (2139941)
Date Published: 11/16/2016

VMware vRealize Log Insight
Log insight 3.3 Appliance Disk expansions are not reflecting after increasing the virtual disks from the Vsphere Client or the WebClient (2146591)
Date Published: 11/17/2016
Comparison between the vRealize Log Insight vSphere Integration feature and the vCenter Server Syslog feature (2147311)
Date Published: 11/17/2016

VMware vRealize Operations Manager
vCenter Endpoint Operations Solution does not collect any data (2146883)
Date Published: 11/16/2016
Tips to troubleshoot why data collection in vRealize Operations Manager appears slow (2147295)
Date Published: 11/14/2016
Custom group membership is not honored despite preview shows right members (2147487)
Date Published: 11/16/2016
Cannot Create Custom Group Using Adapters That Make vRealize Operations Manager REST API Calls (2147670)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
vRealize Operations Manager 6.4 Sizing Guidelines (2147780)
Date Published: 11/14/2016
vRealize Operations Manager 6.3 Release Refresh for RHEL Upgrades (2147829)
Date Published: 11/16/2016
vRealize for Horizon/Published Applications Binary File Signature Expired (2147906)
Date Published: 11/18/2016

VMware vRealize Operations Manager
Workload (%) metrics take a dip for a 5 minute data point on all hosts in vRealize Operations Manager 6.2 (2147116)
Date Published: 11/18/2016
vSphere tags missing in vRealize Operations Manager after migrating vSphere 6.0 Windows to 6.5 vCSA (2147494)
Date Published: 11/15/2016
End Point Operations agent does not connect on Virtual Machine created from an Image (2147665)
Date Published: 11/16/2016
Communication timeout when viewing license groups in vRealize Operations Manager 6.x (2147543)
Date Published: 11/16/2016
How to switch pDRS providers in vRealize Operations Manager 6.4 (2147716)
Date Published: 11/16/2016

VMware vSphere Replication
TLS protocol configuration options for vSphere Replication 6.1.1 (2145893)
Date Published: 11/16/2016