VMware has just released VMware Workstation 6.5.2. You can find the release notes here. What’s new: Support for New Guest Operating Systems VMware provides support for the following operating systems for Workstation 6.5.2: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2 Asianux Server 3.0 Service Pack 1 OpenSUSE 11.1 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS VMware provides experimental support to [...]
VMware has just released ESX Update 4. You can find the release notes here. I’ve picked a couple of bullets which I think are important, please read the release notes for the other improvements and known issues! Be sure to also read the compatability matrix, ESX(i) 3.5 U4 requires vCenter 2.5 U2 or higher, and be sure to check if [...]
VMware released two patches on the 20th of March. Both patches are related to an issue with the Broadcom bnx2x driver. If you are running on hardware with a Broadcom NetXtreme II 57710, 57711, or 57711E NICs be sure to look into the patches below: ESX350-200903412-BG – PATCH – KB 1009232 – General Updates Kernel Source and VMNIX ESX350-200903411-BG – [...]
Just noticed that several Storage Replication Adapter’s(SRA) have been updated over the last couple of weeks. For those using one of these specific SRA’s it might be beneficial to update: EMC RecoverPoint 3.1 Storage Replication Adapter Version 1.0.2.1 | Released 03/17/2009 Storage Array Adapter for IBM N-Series Version 1.0.1 | Released 03/18/2009 IBM DS4000 / DS5000 Series Storage Replication Adapter [...]
FYI: The Site Recovery Manager compatibility guide has just been updated. As of the 16th of march vCenter 2.5 U4 is supported for SRM 1.0 update 1.
In my Lab I was exploring the upgrade possibilities from ESX 3.5 to the next version. Usually I do a full reinstall just to be absolutely sure there’s no old packages floating around. For testing purposes I decided to do an upgrade of the ESX host. I opened up Update Manager and with a couple simple clicks I upgraded my [...]
VMware just released patch 2 for SRM 1.0 Update 1. It’s a cumulative patch that corrects several problems with 1.o Update 1: a problem that prevents protected virtual machines from following recommended Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) settings when recovering to more than one DRS cluster. a problem observed at sites that support more than seven ESX hosts. If you refresh [...]
