by Duncan Epping
Many people have already asked for this as amazon’s shipping is slow or too expensive. After a short discussion we decided to also make the vSphere Quick Start Guide available via lulu.com. Lulu has printing shops in Europe which makes shipping a lot faster and a bit cheaper.
We are also currently discussing a PDF version of the book…. more soon!
John Arrasjid just tweeted that the VCDX Workshop has been approved and will take place on Sunday 7th of February at 13:00 – 15:00 during VMware Partner Exchange in Las Vegas.
Source
VCDX Tips: The VCDX Preparation Workshop has been approved for Partner Exchange ’10. Sunday from 1-3pm, February 7th.
If you happen to go to PEX and are working towards VCDX make sure you attend this workshop it will give you a better understanding of the process.
The last weeks have been crazy. As you know we’ve been working hard to get the vSphere Quick Start Guide out. Last week it was finally officially released and up on Amazon. It has been doing great and thanks to all of you who bought a copy and of course thanks to Vizioncore and EMC we already sold over 1000 copies so far. (If your company also wants to buy copies to give away, contact me!) I think this is an amazing achievement considering the fact that it is a 100% DIY project. No help from a publisher, no advertising, “just” community help. So all you bloggers out there who wrote reviews and announcements thanks for making this a success already.For those who haven’t bought one yet… Christmas is coming up and for just $ 15.99 you can’t go wrong! Buy one now, or two or three….
Now let’s start working on the follow up, believe me it is going to be even better! If you have any tips though please let us know… (Yes the font will be slightly bigger next time.)
I’ve been following William Lam‘s VMTN account in my RSS reader for a while as William regularly releases useful scripts. Lately he has been pumping iron and releasing new scripts or new versions of scripts on an almost daily basis. One of the most useful scripts that William released lately is “getvSwitchMacTable.pl”. Make sure to add William to you RSS reader or just follow him on twitter.
This script allows you to dump information about your vSwitche(s) pertaining to the VM(s) that are attached, the portgroups in which the VM(s) are attached to and the corresponding MAC Address that maps to the portgroup/vswitch
You can specify a specific Cluster, Datacenter or if execute against vCenter without options, it will extract ALL VMs or you execute against an individual ESX(i).
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 using VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 5 with ESX Server 3.5 Update 5. See the ESX Server, VirtualCenter, and VMware Infrastructure Client Compatibility Matrixes for more information on compatibility.
- VMware recommends VMware Tools upgrade for this version of ESX Server.
The following information provides highlights of some of the enhancements available in this release of VMware ESX Server:
Enablement of Intel Xeon Processor 3400 Series – Support for the Intel Xeon processor 3400 series has been added. Support includes Enhanced VMotion capabilities. For additional information on previous processor families supported by Enhanced VMotion, see Enhanced VMotion Compatibility (EVC) processor support (KB 1003212).
Driver Update for Broadcom bnx2 Network Controller – The driver for bnx2 controllers has been upgraded to version 1.6.9. This driver supports bootcode upgrade on bnx2 chipsets and requires bmapilnx and lnxfwnx2 tools upgrade from Broadcom. This driver also adds support for Network Controller – Sideband Interface (NC-SI) for SOL (serial over LAN) applicable to Broadcom NetXtreme 5709 and 5716 chipsets.
Driver Update for LSI SCSI and SAS Controllers – The driver for LSI SCSI and SAS controllers is updated to version 2.06.74. This version of the driver is required to provide a better support for shared SAS environments.
Newly Supported Guest Operating Systems – Support for the following guest operating systems has been added specifically for this release:
For more complete information about supported guests included in this release, see the VMware Compatibility Guide: http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=software.
- Windows 7 Enterprise (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Windows 7 Ultimate (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Windows 7 Professional (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Windows 2008 R2 Standard Edition (64-bit)
- Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition (64-bit)
- Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition (64-bit)
- Windows 2008 R2 Web Server (64-bit)
- Ubuntu Desktop 9.04 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Ubuntu Server 9.04 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Newly Supported Management Agents – See VMware ESX Server Supported Hardware Lifecycle Management Agents for current information on supported management agents.