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 Authentication [...]

VMware just released version 4.0 of SRM. Just to be clear this is not the 4th version of SRM, the version number is aligned with vCenter and ESX. I’ve highlighted the new features which I think are really really useful or exciting. Site Recovery Manager 4.0 | 05-October-2009 | Build 192921 Release Note New Features: Full compatibility with vCenter 4. [...]

Don’t think many people have noticed this KB article yet or even experienced this issue with HA but nevertheless it’s worth mentioning. Apparently there’s an issue with HA in vCenter 4.0 when a class A network is being used. When a node fails this will not be detected and thus the fail-over of VMs will not occur. Although not many [...]

A couple of days ago I posted about Update Manager wanting to install updates regarding the Nexus while I did not have the Nexus installed. I’ve rebuild my entire test environment with the latest(GA) build and noticed that I’m not experiencing these issues anymore. Now I’ve either had an outdated version of VUM, a screwed up database or I was [...]

I was playing around with vSphere ESXi 4.0 and the Update Manager. As Jason Boche already reported several patches have been released and I wanted to test Update Manager. After downloading all the patches I noticed that there was a patch regarding the Cisco Nexus 1000v. Although I did not have the 1000v installed Update Manager did want to install [...]

VMware vCenter Server 2.5 Update 5 – includes Converter Enterprise Latest Version: 2.5 Update 5 | 2009/07/10 Download | Release Notes The list of resolved issues is quite short this time. But a really important issue has been resolved and that’s why I recommend everyone who’s still running vCenter 2.5 to look in to this upgrade! Support for High Consolidation in [...]

VMware just released a bunch of patches for ESX 3.5 and 3.0.x. Those of you who did not yet upgrade to vSphere 4 might want to look in to these new patches as they contain security and critical updates.