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 [...]
Licensing VMware ESX 4, ESXi and vCenter 4 Video KB article
This week VMware posted KB article 1010839 on licensing ESX 4, ESXi 4 and vCenter 4. I get many questions in class about the new license assignment process for vSphere. This KB article has a nice video demonstration and very concise text direction for assigning licenses.
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, [...]
