New KB articles published for week ending 10/11/14

VMware ESXi

Virtual machines freeze intermittently under heavy I/O load (2088157)

Date Published: 10/9/2014

VMware assessment and product alert for the Russian Time Zone Changes update (2091140)

Date Published: 10/6/2014

Virtual machines using the VMXNet2 interface lose network connectivity to the vSwitch or vNetwork Distributed Switch (VDS) (2091159)

Date Published: 10/6/2014

Virtual machine fails with error: VMM Crash NOT_IMPLEMENTED devices/vide/iovmk/videVMK-vmkio.c:1492 (2091578)

Date Published: 10/9/2014

The Reset System Configuration option is grayed out in Direct Console User Interface (DCUI) for stateless ESXi hosts (2091026)

Date Published: 10/8/2014

Quiescing snapshots in an ESXi host fails with the error: The guest OS has reported an error during quiescing. The error code was: 5 The error message was: Asynchronous operation failed: >VssSyncStart (2090545)

Date Published: 10/8/2014

QueryChangedDiskAreas command returns incorrect sectors after extending virtual machine vmdk file with Change Block Tracking (CBT) enabled (2090639)

Date Published: 10/7/2014

After updating the driver for NVIDIA GRID K1, the xorg service fails with the error: Unable to start. Host may require rebooting (2091058)

Date Published: 10/6/2014

The ESXi host fails to access the NAS datastore when the connection to NAS datastore becomes APD state and reports the error: Could not allocate xxxx bytes for dynamic heap NetPktHeapLow. Request returned Out of memory (2091485)

Date Published: 10/8/2014

DVSSync port information on VMware ESXi 5.1 and 5.5 firewall (2090256)

Date Published: 10/10/2014

Unmounting the datastore from the host fails and reports the error: Volume <datastore UUID> cannot be unmounted. Reason: Busy (2090414)

Date Published: 10/7/2014

VMware EVO:RAIL

EVO:RAIL 1.0 Patch Release for Shell Shock Vulnerability (2091654)

Date Published: 10/9/2014

VMware Horizon DaaS

Migrating a Horizon Daas appliance to Ubuntu 12 fails with the error: AttributeError: BootStrapTransit instance has no attribute ‘gateway_eth0′ (2091144)

Date Published: 10/8/2014

Upgrading from earlier versions of VADC/View Agent to View 6.0.1 may result in issues with PCoIP connections to DaaS Desktops when connecting through a dtRAM (2091579)

Date Published: 10/8/2014

Upgrade/Migration issues with Horizon DaaS 6.1 release (2091648)

Date Published: 10/8/2014

VMware Horizon View

Thinprint custom application fails to print in VMware Horizon View (2087509)

Date Published: 10/10/2014

Assigning the minimum required Active Directory (AD) permissions to VMware View Composer (2089676)

Date Published: 10/9/2014

VMware ThinApp

On 64-bit operating system the ThinDirect plug-in does not work between virtual browsers (2087928)

Date Published: 10/8/2014

Packaging guide for VMware ThinApp 5.x and Microsoft Visio 2013 (2088238)

Date Published: 10/8/2014

VMware vCenter Chargeback Manager

Re-run of error reports might increase the CPU usage and memory usage if you upgrade Chargeback Manager 2.5.x or 2.6 version to Chargeback Manager 2.7 version (2090996)

Date Published: 10/7/2014

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1.2 Patch Release (2091102)

Date Published: 10/9/2014

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone fails with the error: Vmacore::TimeoutException(Operation timed out) or Out of memory (2090624)

Date Published: 10/6/2014

VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5.3 Patch Release (2091104)

Date Published: 10/9/2014

VMware vCenter Hyperic Agent

Hyperic 5.0.2 Service Pack 1 to Address Shellshock Vulnerability (2091224)

Date Published: 10/6/2014

VMware vCenter Hyperic Server

Hyperic 5.8.2 Service Pack 3 to Address Shellshock Vulnerability (2091210)

Date Published: 10/6/2014

Hyperic 5.7.1 Service Pack 1 to Address Shellshock Vulnerability (2091223)

Date Published: 10/6/2014

Hyperic 5.8.1 Service Pack 3 to Address Shellshock Vulnerability (2091372)

Date Published: 10/6/2014

Hyperic 5.8.0 Service Pack 2 to Address Shellshock Vulnerability (2091373)

Date Published: 10/6/2014

VMware vCenter Log Insight

Log Insight 2.0.5 Release to Address Shellshock Vulnerability (2091622)

Date Published: 10/9/2014

VMware vCenter Operations Manager (vApp)

vCenter Operations Manager 5.8.0, 5.8.1, and 5.8.2 vApp Patch Release (2091401)

Date Published: 10/6/2014

VMware vCenter Orchestrator

Mounting a CD-ROM or ISO in vCloud Automation Center through a Virtual Machine Remote Console (2065784)

Date Published: 10/9/2014

VMware vCenter Server

The VMware vSphere Web Client incorrectly displays info level messages as errors (2091563)

Date Published: 10/10/2014

Using the vSphere Auto Deploy Waiter service as a Subordinate Certificate Authority (2074109)

Date Published: 10/9/2014

Downloading and Installing the standalone VMware Remote Console (2091284)

Date Published: 10/6/2014

Installing VMware vCenter Server 5.5x fails with the error: Failed to launch vimtool.bat error code returned (2091377)

Date Published: 10/9/2014

VMware vCenter Server Appliance

Using tcpdump on vCenter Linux Appliance (2084896)

Date Published: 10/7/2014

Logging in to the VMware vCenter Server appliance 5.1 or 5.5 using the Use Windows session credentials option fails with the error: Cannot complete login due to an incorrect username or password (2091631)

Date Published: 10/10/2014

On the vCenter Server Appliance, vMotion and storage vMotion of virtual machines fails with the error: A general system error occured: Invalid response code 503: service unavailable (2091384)

Date Published: 10/9/2014

When using Integrated Windows Authentication Identity Source, Active Directory users are not displayed under vCenter Single Sign-On Administrators Group (2091584)

Date Published: 10/10/2014

VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat

Replicating the VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Channel fails with the error: VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Alert: Failed to establish the VMware Channel (2090623)

Date Published: 10/6/2014

Restoring on a Secondary node running Windows Server 2008, 2008R2, or 2012 fails with the error: Execution failed with return code -3. Restore was aborted (2091420)

Date Published: 10/10/2014

VMware vCenter Support Assistant

VMware vCenter Support Assistant 5.5 Web Interface displays error when Contact Details tab is selected: Cannot load contact details (2091328)

Date Published: 10/10/2014

VMware vCloud Automation Center

Backing up or exporting the embedded Postgres database from the vCloud Automation Center 6 appliance (2074214)

Date Published: 10/10/2014

VMware vCloud Automation Center Windows Session Authentication fails with the error: Windows Session Authentication login has failed as a result of an error caused by the VMware Client Integration Plugin (2081664)

Date Published: 10/10/2014

VMware vCloud Director

Troubleshooting Virtual Machine Remote Console (VMRC) connectivity issues in VMware vCloud Director (2087524)

Date Published: 10/10/2014

vCloud Director 5.6 Configuration Maximums (2090718)

Date Published: 10/7/2014

ISO media file without the .iso extension is unusable and cannot be uploaded in VMware vCloud Director (2091126)

Date Published: 10/6/2014

Upgrading to vCloud Director 5.5.1/5.5.2 prevents end users from uploading OVAs using the Client Integration Tool (2091030)

Date Published: 10/7/2014

VMware vFabric Postgres

Postgres Reference for vSphere Big Data Extensions/Serengeti 1.0 (2064610)

Date Published: 10/10/2014

VMware View

VMware View Session Disconnects at 20 hours (1200 Minutes) (2090924)

Date Published: 10/10/2014

On some types and versions of Horizon Client, users are disconnected from sessions when “Forcibly disconnect users” is set to never in View Administrator (2091458)

Date Published: 10/10/2014

VMware Virtual Disk Development

Mounting volume containing NTFS filesystem from Windows 2012 virtual machines as read-only using VixMntAPI on earlier version of VDDK proxies fails with the error: Failed to read First Object. Volume/NTFS filesystem is corrupt (87) (2091479)

Date Published: 10/8/2014

VMware vSphere App HA

App HA 1.1 Service Pack 2 to Address Shellshock Vulnerability (2091371)

Date Published: 10/6/2014

VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions

Creating a YUM Repository server for VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions 2.0 (BDE) Hadoop Distributions (2091051)

Date Published: 10/7/2014

Adding the Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop (CDH) for use with VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions (BDE) 2.0 (2091052)

Date Published: 10/7/2014

Adding the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Distribution for Hadoop for use with VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions (BDE) 2.0 (2091054)

Date Published: 10/7/2014

Testing Hadoop on Apache 1.2.1 Distribution in VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions 2.0 (2091060)

Date Published: 10/7/2014

VMware vSphere Data Protection

Connecting to VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) 5.8 via SSH as root user fails with the error: Access Denied (2089874)

Date Published: 10/9/2014

Disabling or modifying the default alarm parameter in VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) appliance when the VDP appliance datastore reaches its maximum capacity (2091073)

Date Published: 10/9/2014

Collecting logs from VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) fails (2088489)

Date Published: 10/9/2014

Backing up vCenter Server with vSphere Data Protection (VDP) fails with error: Soap fault due to Connection timed out (2090395)

Date Published: 10/9/2014

After reboot, VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) attempts to re-execute the backup jobs during the backup window and fails immediately (2090481)

Date Published: 10/8/2014

Sending a test email in the vSphere Data Protection 5.8 when SMTP Fix-up is enabled fails with the error: Failure sending HELO command to SMTP server (2091471)

Date Published: 10/10/2014

VMware vSphere Management Assistant

Updating the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) from a tar.gz Update Bundle (2091685)

Date Published: 10/9/2014

vSphere Management Assistant 5.1 EP1 (5.1.0.2) (2091620)

Date Published: 10/9/2014