This week in Frankfurt HP is hosting Discover 2012, where they've unveiled some big product announcements. The big news is the birth of the 3PAR 7200 and 7400 arrays, a new line of hardware which drastically pushes down the price point for 3PAR storage firmly into the mid-range. HP is clearly...
Hot off the presses is VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.6! Updated products include:vCenter Operations Manager 5.6vCenter Configuration Manager 5.6vCenter Infrastructure Navigator 2.0vCenter Charge Back Manager 2.5vFabric Hyperic 5.0One major improvement is the integration between products. Reading the release notes you consistently see "this release introduces integration with....". It's great...
Right on the heels of vCenter 5.1.0A release, yesterday VMware released vSphere Replication 5.1.0.1. VMware is STRONGLY urging people to upgrade "ASAP", since it fixes the problem documented in KB 2035929. You can check out their full blog post here.
A few days ago I blogged about injecting VMware vSphere drivers into a Windows Server 2012 image, so you can seamlessly install WS2012 inside a VM with PVSCSI and VMXNET hardware. Next up is injecting Cisco UCS drivers into Windows Server 2012, in case you need to install Windows Server...
Just released is the October 2012 HP Service Pack for ProLiant, which has full support for Windows Server 2012. Current support for Windows Server 2012 is focused on G7 and Gen8 servers. G6s and earlier will have limited to no WS2012 support. The 2012.10.0 release has these major changes: Added support for...
Ahead of schedule, Microsoft has released the RTM versions of Office 2013, Visio 2013, Project 2013, SharePoint Server 2013, Exchange Server 2013, and Lync 2013. Sign in to your TechNet/MSDN account and download today!
As people quickly found out when vSphere 5.1 was released, installation and configuration of vSphere 5.1 SSL certificates was very painful and no accurate VMware documentation existed. Through a lot of work and help from some of my readers, I published a process that was pretty successful but required some workarounds and...
If you want to run Windows Server 2012 on Cisco UCS blades, fear no more! As of the 2.0(4a) release they now have official support in firmware, and an updated drivers disc. Just login to Cisco TAC, get the firmware and new driver disc. As you can see in the...
STOP THE PRESSES! The solution to your vCenter 5.1 woes may be at your finger tips. If anyone has tried to install and configure VMware vSphere 5.1, you may have run into a plethora of difficulties. My 14 part vCenter 5.1 installation series, found here, have gotten massive page views...
Today VMware released an update for ESXi 5.1, and the new build number is 838463. This is a bugfix only release. You can read the full bulletin here. As always, you can download it from the patch center here.PR919634: When you perform an upgrade from vSphere 5.0 to vSphere 5.1...
Today Cisco release a new firmware bundle for their UCS servers, 2.0(4b). No major fixes in the bundle. You can find the full Release Notes here. If you want to run Windows Server 2012, 2.0(4a) is the minimum supported version you need to be running. You can check out my blog...
For those of you using HP storage arrays (P2000, P4000, P6000, 3PAR, XP) HP has released a major update to their vCenter plug-in. You can now actively manage a wider range of HP arrays, you get full vSphere 5.1 web client capabilities, and expanded VASA support. You can check out...