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Virtual Disk Development Kit
VMware Virtual Disk Development kit restores the thin-provisioned disk of a virtual machine residing on NFS as a thick-provisioned disk (2077787)
Date Published: 5/14/2014
VMware ESXi
Understanding the VMFS heap eviction process in ESXi 5.5 (2077898)
Date Published: 5/12/2014
An ESXi 5.1 host provisioned with Auto Deploy remains in maintenance mode after booting (2054038)
Date Published: 5/14/2014
Checking if NetFlow / IPFIX is enabled on a vSphere Distributed Switch or vDS PortGroup from ESXi host command line (2065036)
Date Published: 5/13/2014
OpenSSL Security Advisory released on January 06, 2014 (CVE-2013-4353, CVE-2013-6449, and CVE-2013-6450) (2070532)
Date Published: 5/12/2014
VMware Horizon View
Installing Horizon View 5.2 connection server fails with error 28018: There was an error creating MS Direct Service Instance (2070614)
Date Published: 5/16/2014
Supportability for Microsoft Lync 2013 phone integration within VMware Horizon View (2078289)
Date Published: 5/16/2014
VMware Service Manager
Using Custom Search in VMware Service Manager does not return the columns configured in Column Configs (2077741)
Date Published: 5/12/2014
Custom search in VMware Server Manager 9.x does not return expected results (2077742)
Date Published: 5/13/2014
VMware ThinApp
The virtual version of SolidWorks edrawing 2013 x64 Edition fails tolaunchon Win7 64 bit operating system (2070004)
Date Published: 5/13/2014
The native Internet Explorer 8 might freeze when you use the ThinDirect plug-in (2073845)
Date Published: 5/13/2014
Microsoft Project 2010 and Microsoft Visio 2010 cause an MSI installer and licensing error on deployment systems with Microsoft Office 2010 natively installed (2077860)
Date Published: 5/13/2014
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
Physical to virtual conversion of a Linux virtual machine using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone fails with the error: Host key can’t be retrieved (2073051)
Date Published: 5/14/2014
VMware vCenter Server
Manually removing a System DSN in Microsoft Windows (2073118)
Date Published: 5/13/2014
Renaming a VMware vSphere Distributed Switch in production when virtual machines are connected (2048035)
Date Published: 5/13/2014
VMware vCenter Server Appliance
Emails sent from VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.x are rejected (2073849)
Date Published: 5/14/2014
VMware vCloud Automation Center
Collecting VMware vCloud Automation Center logs using the vCAC log collection utility (2078179)
Date Published: 5/15/2014
VMware vCloud Connector
Timeout error while using vCloud Connector 2.6 to copy to or from a vSphere cloud (2078110)
Date Published: 5/15/2014
VMware vCloud Director
A user with restricted rights in vCloud Director 5.5 can alter hardware parameters when deploying a virtual machine (2075619)
Date Published: 5/13/2014
VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions
Adding a datastore in VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions 1.x plug-in fails with the error: Error 1034 (2077735)
Date Published: 5/13/2014
VMware vSphere Data Protection
VMware vSphere Data Protection minimum required vCenter user account permissions (2072861)
Date Published: 5/12/2014
VMware vSphere Data Protection
VMware vSphere Data Protection appliance fails to attach disks during VDR to VDP migration (2073709)
Date Published: 5/12/2014