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 Workstation 7.1 is here!
VMware released VMware Workstation 7.1 Fusion 3.1 today. From VMware’s Workstation 7.1 Release Notes: New Support for 32-Bit and 64-Bit Operating Systems This release provides support for the following host and guest operating systems: Operating System Ubuntu 8.04.4 Host and guest Ubuntu 10.04 Host and guest OpenSUSE 11.2 Host and guest Red Hat Enterprise Linux [...]
New VMware Advanced Certifications announced
VMware Education has announced their new VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP) Certification specialties VCAP4-Datacenter Administrator (VCAP4-DCA) and VCAP4-Datacenter Design (VCAP4-DCD). VMware Certified Advanced Professional 4 -Datacenter Administration (VCAP4-DCA) The VCAP-DCA is directed toward System Administrators, Senior Consultants and Technical Support Engineers who work with large and more complex virtualized environments and can demonstrate technical leadership [...]
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 [...]
VMware View 4 Beta/POC
Today, I had the good fortune to work with Todd Dayton, A VMware specialist on all things VDI/View related. The client I am working for had been accepted into the View 4 beta and Todd was onsite to help with the install and config of View and some thin clients. We relearned a pretty common [...]
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.
EMC Storage resources
Earlier today I saw an exchange between Scott Lowe and Chad Sakac on twitter regarding a post on learning about EMC storage. I teach as a contractor for VMware and storage is routinely identified by students a topic for more and more in-depth discussion. I follow both Scott Lowe‘s and Chad Sakac‘s blogs with interest [...]
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 [...]
