Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

VMware vCenter 2.5 Update 4 released today!

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I just noticed that VMware vCenter 2.5 Update 4 has been released. I wanted to say: download it and install, but looking at the attendee numbers most of my readers will probably be at VMworld!

What’s new?

  • Guest Operating System Customization Improvements – VirtualCenter now supports customization of Windows Server 2008 guest operating systems.
  • Performance Overview Charts – VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 4 introduces the Performance Overview plug-in, which provides a single view of key performance metrics for CPU, memory, disk, and network without having to navigate through multiple charts. The aggregated charts show high-level summaries of resource distribution.
    To install the Performance Overview plug-in, see Installing the Performance Overview Plug-In in VirtualCenter 2.5 Update4 (KB 1008296)

And not totally unimportant Update 4 included two security updates which is why I recommend to take it for a test drive soon and start planning the implementation!

If you get the change install the Performance Overview plugin and email me a screenshot, I don’t think I will have the time today to actually test it…

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  1. What, no bug fixes? That can’t be true, must be your headache that made you forget to mention. I’m waiting for some bugs to be fixed by this update.
    /me is off to check the release notes

  2. Ah, there are some fixes:
    I have seen this one before: fault.MemorySizeNotRecommended.Summary
    And this: Storage Information Displayed for ESX Server that Access Shared LUNs Is Now Accurate
    And this is nice too: Storage VMotion Creates Temporary delta.vmdk Files Only for the Virtual Disks That Are Migrated
    Wow, the list of known issues is still pretty long…

  4. PF Overview Charts picture looks nice…

    Anyone want to recommend whether to upgrade or re-install from scratch??

  5. i agree with mickkael, it’s NOT user friendly…

    Tom, a snapshot can do the trick, if your VC is a VM of course 🙂

  6. The install/setup was pretty straight forward. It’s all in the documentation. Yeah, it may not be covered by the installer automatically, but I was able to upgrade just fine and didn’t lose any data.

    If you are an admin/engineer in charge of the Virtual Environment and you are having issues following the upgrade documentation, you might have bigger issues than not seeing the “Performance Overview” tab.

  7. the performance overview does not seem to give any more info than the performance tab already integrated does, what is the main difference?

  9. Thanks for the heads-up on VCenter 2.5u4!

    I got it installed and followed the procedure to install the Performance Overview plugin. It works on my VCenter server, but I can’t install the plugin on management workstations. When I click on “Download and Install” I get this error message : “Invalid URI: URI is empty”.

    Any idea on how to fix that?

    (My VCenter server has 3 ip adresses, might be caused by that)

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