VMware FT 6.0 may lead to increased network latency If you use FT 6.0 (with more than one vCPU) and you experience high latency and low throughput, check this blog. Incompatibility Issues may lead to performance degradation on Windows If you use Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2 or 2016 guests and you experience an increased rate of “Received Dropped Packets”, check this blog. Īpplications fail to start when using Open VMware Tools with SLES and RHEL If you use the Open VMware tools and your applications which depend on VMware APIs fail to start, check SAP Note 2501545. Please see VMware Advisory page for further instructions in particular to the Spectre vulnerability, whereas the following blog confirms that ESXi and related VMware products are not affected by Meltdown vulnerability. Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities Like most other vendors, also VMware has released patches for the recently identified vulnerabilities in microprocessors, code named Spectre (CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715) and Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754). These patches replace the existing virtual network card (vNIC) with a new one, hide the pre-existing vNIC and do not persist or transfer the existing IP Address configuration to the new vNIC. The Security Updates KB4088875 and KB4088878 for Windows Server 2008 (R2) have incompatibility issues with VMs running on VMware vSphere. Windows Server 2008 (R2) vNIC incompabilities To get all available protections and links to our partner’s mitigation strategy, follow SAP Note 2680466. Speculative-Execution Vulnerability CVE-2018-3646 Intel published details on a new class of CPU speculative-execution vulnerabilities known as “L1 Terminal Fault”. This release has been removed from the VMware Downloads page. As a result, VMware has recalled the VMware Tools 10.3.0 release. VMware has been made aware of issues in some vSphere ESXi 6.5 configurations with the VMXNET3 network driver for Windows that was released with VMware Tools 10.3.0. VMware Tools Version 10.3.0 Recall and Workaround Recommendations.

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