I just received a very useful email on a VMware internal mailing list and thought I would share it with you guys. Here’s the question: I want to update ESXi U3 to U4. My ESXi contains specific vendor modules for monitoring. (HP for instance) When I do the updates will these modules be removed or will they be upgraded? And [...]
William Lam just spread the word on twitter, ESXi 3.5 U4 free edition is available as of now! VMware ESX Server 3i U4 Installable Refresh Version 3.5 Update 4 | 153875 – 03/30/09 VMware ESXi 3.5 U4 Installable with HP Management Components Version 3.5 Update 4 | 153875 – 03/30/09
I’ve been extremely busy last week and totally forgot to publish this article. VMware has just release Fusion 2.0.3. You can find the release notes here. Here’s the what’s new section: Resolves an issue where driverless printing stops working for users that run Mac OS X 10.5.6, and installed Apple Mac OS X Security Update 2009-001. The shared printers would [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A lot of people have been asking for this: When will ESX 3.5 Update 3 be released? Well here’s your answer, download it now. There are a couple of new things introduced: Increase in vCPU per Core Limit — The limit on vCPUs per core has been raised from 8 (or 11 for VDI workloads) to 20. This change only raises [...]
