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vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2d recently released

by Shawn Cannon

On January 27 2015 VMware released an update for vCenter Server 5.5.  The release notes are located here.  A brief summary of the resolved issues from the release notes are below.

vCenter Single Sign-On

  • VMware Directory Service consumes excessive memory
  • Backup and restore of vCenter Single Sign-On database might not replicate the data between primary and secondary nodes correctly
  • Attempts to logout through the vCloud Automation Center UI might fail

Networking

  • Network Interface Cards of virtual machines in disconnected state might get ejected during vMotion

vCenter Server, vSphere Client, and vSphere Web Access

  • Virtual machines on ESXi hosts containing NSX Endpoint virtual machines might not power on
  • Update to SUSE Linux Enterprise Edition Server in vCenter Server Appliance to address time zone changes
  • vpxd reports massive logging
  • Accessing the Storage View tab fails with the error
  • Scheduled tasks cannot be created for a different time on the same day in vSphere Web Client
  • The VMware VirtualCenter Server service fails intermittently
  • HTML console cannot be launched with custom port
  • Datastore browser in vSphere Web Client does not overwrite existing files
  • VMware VirtualCenter Server service fails

Virtual Machine Management

  • Cloning or deploying deploying virtual machines over the network causes performance degradation
  • Alert event is not triggered when one VM has multiple vNICs with same MAC address

vMotion and Storage vMotion

  • The default behavior of DRS has been changed to make the feature less aggressive during cluster upgrade

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