Posts Tagged ‘upgrade’

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 [...]

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 [...]

ESX(i) 4.0 -> ESX(i) 4.0 U1 update

My colleague Lee Dilworth just emailed me the following. Those who are running vSphere ESX(i) and have the Cisco Nexus1000v installed might want to read this:
If your customers are on ESXi/ESX 4.0 and want to update to U1 using the vihostupdate then first they need to read this new KB:
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1015879
From here you will see mention [...]

vSphere ESX/vCenter 4.0 Update 1

VMware just released ESX 4.0 Update 1 and vCenter 4.0 Update 1. Most people have already reported on this by now. Two things that stood out for me personally is the following:

HA Cluster Configuration Maximum — HA clusters can now support 160 virtual machines per host in HA Cluster of 8 hosts or less. The [...]

VMware vCenter Chargeback 1.0.1

VMware has just released a new version of VMware vCenter Chargeback. Below you can find the “what’s new” details from the release notes:
vCenter Chargeback 1.0.1 | 10/29/2009 | Build 204097
Last Document Update: 10/29/2009
What’s New in this Release
vCenter Chargeback 1.0.1 provides the following new features:

Support for Windows Authentication
This release of vCenter Chargeback supports Windows [...]

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