Posts Tagged ‘update’

VMware vCenter SRM 4.0.1 released

VMware just released VMware vCenter SRM 4.0.1.
Site Recovery Manager 4.0.1
File size: 104 MB
You can find the download here. This patch fixes the following issues:

Test recovery times have been improved for ESX 4.0.1 hosts that use iSCSI arrays.
a problem that could cause a recovery plan to hang while powering-off virtual machines at the protected site [...]

VMware vCenter Update Manager 4.0 Update 1 Patch 1

VMware just released VMware vCenter Update Manager 4.0 Update 1 Patch 1.
This patch resolves the following issues :

After upgrading Cisco Nexus 1000V VSM to the latest version, you might not be able to patch the kernel of ESX hosts attached to the vDS (KB 1015717)Upgrading Cisco Nexus 1000V VSM to the latest version [...]

VMware View 4.0.1

VMware just released a maintenance release for VMware View 4.
View Manager Version 4.0.1 | 18 February 2010 | Build: 233023 (View Manager), 210930 (View Composer)
What’s New:
VMware View 4.0.1 is a maintenance release that resolves some known issues in the previous releases. For details, see the Resolved Issues section.
This release includes the following new features.
Localization of [...]

VUM and downloading patches via PAC

When I tried to download patches via a freshly installed VMware vSphere Update Manager today I received the following error:
https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/index.xml;
hosting the patch definitions and patches cannot be reached or has no patch data
Although we configured a proxy including the appropriate account it would not work. As suggested in this KB article I removed the “http://” [...]

vSphere ESX(i) 4.0 Patches released

VMware just released several new patches of which security and critical patches. You can find the KB articles which describe the fixes here:
ESX:

KB 1016291
KB 1016292
KB 1016293
KB 1016294

ESXi:

KB 1016295
KB 1016296

ESX 4.0 Update 1A

ESX(i) 4 Update 1 has just been re-released:
We’ve released a new version of ESX 4.0 Update 1 that resolves the issue with the ESX 4.0 Update 1 install failing, timing out and resulting in the host entering an usable state.
The new version is called ESX 4.0 Update 1A.
You can find the new version on VMware [...]

ESX 3.5 Update 5 is available

For those still on ESX 3.5 VMware has just released Update 5. Here are the full release notes, you can find the download here and make sure to read which issues have been resolved.
What’s New?
Notes:

Not all combinations of VirtualCenter and ESX Server versions are supported. All of these highlighted features are available only if you are [...]

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