Product Releases
| Product | Version | Release Date | Download | Release Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vCenter | 7.0 u3u | 03/31 | Download | Release Notes |
| vCenter | 8.0 u3e | 04/11 | Download | Release Notes |
| vCenter Photon OS Security Patch | 04/11 | Release Notes | ||
| ESXi | 8.0 u3e | 04/11 | Download | Release Notes |
| vSAN | 8.0 u3e | 04/11 | Release Notes | |
| Supervisor | 8.0 u3e | 04/11 | Release Notes | |
| Host Client | 2.5.0 | 04/11 | Release Notes | |
| Live Recovery | 9.0.2.2 | 04/01 | Download | Release Notes |
| Replication | 9.0.2.2 | 03/19 | Download | Release Notes |
KB Articles
| Subject | ID |
|---|---|
| Aria Operations for logs is down | 394112 |
| „ServiceAccount vCenter root folder view privilege check failed.“ on Data Services Manager 2.2 new install. | 394103 |
| Unable to start services Aria Lifecycle Manager web client doesn’t load. | 394080 |
| SDDC Manager Depot connection error – Failed to connect to VMware depot with the provided user credentials. Cause: {0}. | 394069 |
| Receiving many unexpected alerts or notifications on cancelled alerts | 394056 |
| Unable to download OVA/ISO for older versions | 394043 |
| integration configuration to vCenter revert unexpectedly in Aria Operations for Logs | 394024 |
| The vSAN device is going into APD(All paths down) mode randomly and recovering within minutes. | 394013 |
| Storage File System Changed to RAW after reboot | 393946 |
| Unable to update the password of admin user for Aria Operations for Logs | 393878 |
| Disk goes into Read-Only Mode if the CPU core is increased beyond 128 for Linux Virtual Machines. | 393870 |
| Incremental backup greyed out for MySQL backups on DSM | 393814 |
| Load Balancer FQDN is not reachable | 393795 |
| vSAN Data Protection – Take snapshot task failed | 393764 |
| Low space alert on log insight servers | 393713 |
| Datastores not listed after ESXi upgrade to 8.0 U2 | 393689 |
| Unable to launch console for the virtual machines | 393687 |
| Unable to boot VM. Stuck task „poweron“. | 393631 |
| Unable to delete a VM directory on vSAN Datastore | 393616 |
| BIOS_FIRMWARE_TYPE WARNING | 393597 |
| ESXi syslog.log reports a dmp file from the apiForwarder service | 393552 |
| Enable TPM on ESXi. | 393506 |
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