New Updates of VMware Products | Technodrone

2010-06-11

New Updates of VMware Products

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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:

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.

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.