VMware vSphere Web Client – Shockwave Stopped Working (Solved!)

It was noticed along the web and I’ve experienced this myself.

After updating Adobe Flash Player to 27.0.0.170 I couldn’t connect to vSphere Web Client (Flash version) with Google Chrome or Opera browsers.

You would get an “Shockwave Flash crash” similar to the one below:

Well, recently Adobe launched an update to Adobe Flash Player (27.0.0.183) that solves the issue.

You may also experience the same issue with Microsoft Edge. The new update that solves this issue.
Just run Windows Update or download the KB4049179 directly from Microsoft Update Catalog.

VMware - Getting Your Hosts Up-to-Date with VUM

If you have a large virtual environment, it can be difficult to keep up-to-date with all your hosts. Well...to be true, even in a small-medium environment, vCenter Update Manager (VUM) can really help with and be a time saver.

With VUM you can control all the patches, bugfixes and upgrades from VMware, but it's also possible to get specific updates from your hardware's vendor.

So, in VUM you'll just need to insert a new "Download Source" to get this updates:

HP Depot
http://vibsdepot.hp.com/index.xml

DELL Depot
http://vmwaredepot.dell.com/index.xml


If you need some help to configur VUM in your infrastructure follow this nice guide:
Technologist - Install VMware vCenter Update Manager

VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Installation Hangs

When installing vCenter 5.5 (simple installation) on a Microsoft Windows Server 2012, the setup hangs almost when finishing.

This happens because the installer it's looking for something that Windows Server 2012 doesn't have.
The ocsetup.exe file.

To fix this, you'll need to:

• Find a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine and copy the OCSetup.exe from %windir%\system32 to your Windows Server 2012 machine
  
• Then, install the feature Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
  
• Restart your machine and restart your vCenter 5.5 setup

And it's all done! :)