New Updates of VMware Products
As Always, Test Before you deploy!!!
VMware Data Recovery 1.2 Available.
Release Notes - Download Link - Admin Guide
Here are some highlights of the new release:
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a file level restore client for Linux virtual machines
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ability to run up to 10 VDR appliances per vCenter Server instance
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ability to fast switch between the deployed appliances via the vSphere Client plug-in
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Miscellaneous vSphere Client Plug-In user interface enhancements including:
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The means to name backup jobs during their creation.
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Additional information about the current status of destination disks including the disk’s health and the degree of space savings provided by the de-duplication store’s optimizations.
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Information about the datastore from which virtual disks are backed up.
VMware vCenter Server 4.0 Update 2
Here Are some Highlights of the new release
Guest Operating System Customization Improvements: vCenter Server now supports customization of the following guest operating systems:
- Windows XP Professional SP2 (x64) serviced by Windows Server 2003 SP2
- SLES 11 (x32 and x64)
- SLES 10 SP3 (x32 and x64)
- RHEL 5.5 Server Platform (x32 and x64)
- RHEL 5.4 Server Platform (x32 and x64)
- RHEL 4.8 Server Platform (x32 and 64)
- Debian 5.0 (x32 and x64)
- Debian 5.0 R1 (x32 and x64)
- Debian 5.0 R2 (x32 and x64)
- Resolved Issues :In addition, this release delivers a number of bug fixes that have been documented in the Resolved Issues section.
- CIM and API
- Guest Operating Systems
- Licensing
- Miscellaneous
- Networking
- Security
- Server Configuration
- Storage
- Upgrade and Installation
- vCenter Server, vSphere Client, and vSphere Web Access
- Virtual Machine Management
- vMotion and Storage vMotion
- VMware High Availability and Fault Tolerance
VMware ESX 4.0 Update 2
Here Are some Highlights of the new release
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Enablement of Fault Tolerance Functionality for Intel Xeon 56xx Series processors— vSphere 4.0 Update 1 supports the Intel Xeon 56xx Series processors without Fault Tolerance. vSphere 4.0 Update 2 enables Fault Tolerance functionality for the Intel Xeon 56xx Series processors.
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Enablement of Fault Tolerance Functionality for Intel i3/i5 Clarkdale Series and Intel Xeon 34xx Clarkdale Series processors— vSphere 4.0 Update 1 supports the Intel i3/i5 Clarkdale Series and Intel Xeon 34xx Clarkdale Series processors without Fault Tolerance. vSphere 4.0 Update 2 enables Fault Tolerance functionality for the Intel i3/i5 Clarkdale Series and Intel Xeon 34xx Clarkdale Series processors.
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Enablement of IOMMU Functionality for AMD Opteron 61xx and 41xx Series processors— vSphere 4.0 Update 1 supports the AMD Opteron 61xx and 41xx Series processors without input/output memory management unit (IOMMU). vSphere 4.0 Update 2 enables IOMMU functionality for the AMD Opteron 61xx and 41xx Series processors.
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Enhancement of the esxtop/resxtop utility**—** vSphere 4.0 Update 2 includes an enhancement of the performance monitoring utilities, esxtop and resxtop. The esxtop/resxtop utilities now provide visibility into the performance of NFS datastores in that they display the following statistics for NFS datastores: Reads/s, writes/s, MBreads/s, MBwrtn/s, cmds/s, GAVG/s(guest latency).
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Additional Guest Operating System Support— ESX/ESXi 4.0 Update 2 adds support for Ubuntu 10.04. For a complete list of supported guest operating systems with this release, see the VMware Compatibility Guide.
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Resolved Issues – In addition, this release delivers a number of bug fixes that have been documented in the Resolved Issues section.