2010-06-11

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:

  • a file level restore client for Linux virtual machines
  • ability to run up to 10 VDR appliances per vCenter Server instance
  • ability to fast switch between the deployed appliances via the vSphere Client plug-in
  • Miscellaneous vSphere Client Plug-In user interface enhancements including:
    • The means to name backup jobs during their creation.
    • 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.
    • Information about the datastore from which virtual disks are backed up.

 

VMware vCenter Server 4.0 Update 2

Release Notes - Download Link

Here Are some Highlights of the new release

Guest Operating System Customization Improvements: vCenter Server now supports customization of the following guest operating systems:

 

VMware ESX 4.0 Update 2

Release Notes  -  Download Link

Here Are some Highlights of the new release

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • Resolved Issues In addition, this release delivers a number of bug fixes that have been documented in the Resolved Issues section.