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vSphere 5.1 Release Date leaked, maybe?
Looks like Sammy Bogaert over at Boerlowie’s Blog has possibly found the release date of vSphere 5.1… maybe?
I was about to download vSphere Update Manager PowerCLI 5.0.
I followed the main site and wanted to check the documentation first. So I clicked the Documentation button.
This lead me to the Docs of Update Manager PowerCLI 5.1! That’s right, 5.1! With a release date of 10 September 2012.
None of the links for 5.1 work, so no news on any new features…
Guess somebody at VMware was a bit too fast to update the website
Nice find Sammy, guess time will tell if the Sept. 10th date is the actual release date or not.
Upgrade VMware ESXi 5.5 U1 using command line
In case you missed it somehow, VMware released ESXi 5.5 Update 1 this week. In the last update I also used the command line to upgrade my Intel NUC hosts, which worked flawlessly. This time I’ve updated via command line as well and this is how.
VMware vCenter 5.0 Update 1a released
VMware vCenter 5.0 Update 1a has just been released and is the first major update since version 5.0.
The main improvements being:
- vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1a introduces support for the following vCenter Databases
- Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Standard ONE Edition Release 2 [11.2.0.3] – 64 bit
- Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Standard ONE Edition Release 2 [11.2.0.3] – 32 bit
- vCenter Server Appliance Database Support: The DB2 express embedded database provided with the vCenter Server Appliance has been replaced with VMware vPostgres database. This decreases the appliance footprint and reduces the time to deploy vCenter Server further.
How to use Site Recovery Manager DR IP Customizer
As one of the tasks given to me include protecting critical virtual machines via Site Recovery Manager (SRM) I ran into an environment that needed to be protected and have static IP’s assigned to them. The environment consists of about 15 VM’s, all of the VM’s each have 5 NIC’s with two of the VM’s having 9 NIC’s – that’s a lot of NIC’s to manually configure on both the Protected and Recovery side in SRM.
Looking through the SRM Documentation I was able to see that VMware has graced us with a wonderful tool to greatly speed up this process, dr-ip-customizer.exe!
How to use VMware DR-IP-Customizer
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VMware vCenter Server 5.5b released
VMware hasn’t let the holidays get in their way and has released vCenter Server 5.5b (Build 1476387) along with vCenter Server Appliance 5.5.0b (Build 1476389). The update includes a number of fixes.
Resolved Issues in 5.5.0b
Upgrade and Installation
- Upgrading the vSphere Web Client to vSphere 5.5 fails with an error
Attempts to upgrade the vSphere Web Client to vSphere 5.5 fails when they are installed in a custom, non-default location. An error message similar to the following is displayed:Error 29107. The service or solution user already registered...
VMware Workstation updated to 9.0.2
VMware is released a maintenance update for VMware Workstation to version 9.0.2. The update is available for free for all VMware Workstation 9.x customers.
Mostly just bug fixes and a few improvements, here are a few highlights:
- Fedora 18 supported as a guest operating system
- Windows 8 host permissions issues fixed
- VMware Tool updated to support the latest Linux kernels
- Improved general host resource management
- OVF Tool has been updated to version 3.0.2
- Virtual machine sharing improvements
- Memory leak which impacted Windows hosts has been fixed