VMware vSphere 4.0 Update 2 is released
This evening VMware released Update 2 for ESX/ESXi 4, vCenter Management Server 4, vCenter Update Manager 4 and VMware Data Recovery. A quick scan of the ESX 4 Update 2 release notes shows expanded support for FT on Intel i3/i5 Clarkdale, Xeon 34xx Clarkdale and Xeon 56xxx processors. Support for IOMMU on AMD Opteron 61xx [...]
VMware Partner Exchange 2010
I just booked my flight to Las Vegas for VMware’s Partner Exchange. I will be attending the partner “Post-Sales Accreditation Bootcamp” on the weekend and staying for a couple of VMware View 4 design session on Tuesday. I have a cousin who lives in Las Vegas and Friday is his birthday. If I can locate [...]
vCenter 2.5 Update 5 released
VMware released vCenter 2.5 Update 5. The release notes state: VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 5 includes significant performance and scalability improvements to VMware HA. Use VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 5 for environments with more than 35 virtual machines per host in an HA cluster. For information on the ESX Server host settings required for this scalability improvement, [...]
New ESX 3.5 patches for June released
VMware released 7 patches for ESX 3.5 including: VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-200906401-BG : Updates vmkctl and vmkernel RPMs Issues fixed in this patch (and their relevant symptoms, if applicable) include: When you power on virtual machines on ESX 3.5 hosts, many inactive VMFS volumes are opened in addition to the VMFS volume containing the [...]
New VMware network technical papers published
Network Segmentation in Virtualized Environments As virtualization becomes the standard infrastructure for server deployments, a growing number of organizations want to consolidate servers that belong to different trust zones. The demand is increasing for information to help network security professionals understand and mitigate the risks associated with this practice. This paper provides detailed descriptions of [...]
VMware Security Advisory 2009-0008
VMware has released security advisory VMSA-2009-0008. The advisory is for a vulnerability in an MIT Kerberos 5 package in the service console. The advisory explains: An input validation flaw in the asn1_decode_generaltime function in MIT Kerberos 5 before 1.6.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors [...]
New patches released for ESX
VMware released 6 patches for ESX 3.5 including: VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-200905401-BG: Updates vmkernel and hostd RPMs Critical updates related to HA failover of VM’s on NFS datastores and invalid license issues. Host reboot required. VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-200905402-BG: Updates VMX RPM General update to address a robustness issue with VMX. No Host [...]
VMware Security Advisory 2009-0007
VMware released security advisory VMSA-2009-007. The security advisory is related to the “Descheduled time accounting service” an optional, experimentally supported component of the VMware tools. The denial of service vulnerability only exists on Windows based VM’s with the descheduled time accounting service installed, but not running. The advisory lists the conditions and required steps to [...]
New Security Patches for ESX
VMware updated Security Advisory VMSA-2009-0004.1 and released 4 new patches: VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-200904402-SG: Updates ESX Scripts <- This one also corrects the need to rescan storage twice with Qlogic HBA’s! VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-200904406-SG: Updates vim-common, vim-minimal RPMs VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-200904407-SG: Security Update to BIND VMware ESX 3.5, Patch ESX350-200904408-SG: [...]
