Yesterday VMware released vSphere 5.0 Update 2. You can find the full ESXi release notes here. vCenter 5.0 Update 2 release notes are here. Highlights of Update 2 include: Full support for installing vCenter on Windows Server 2012 Full customization support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Support for...
Yesterday VMware released security and bugfix patches for both ESXi 5.0 and ESXi 5.1. It has also updated the vCenter Server Appliance to address security issues as well. For the full security bulletin, check out this link. The new build numbers are shown below:ESXi 5.0 Build 914586 (Update 2)ESXi 5.1...
VMware has released an updated version of vCenter Server, v5.1.0b. You can find the whole readme here. According to the readme, vCenter Server 5.1.0b is not a patch release. For more information you can find the release notes here. The release notes are particularly enlightening, as you can find all...
For those of you eagerly awaiting Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 RTM, you can now download it from TechNet! Dated just last week you can now download:Configuration Manager and Endpoint ProtectionData Protection ManagerVirtual Machine ManagerApp ControllerOrchestratorService ManagerThe biggest news for SP1 is full support for Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V 3.0,...
HP recently released a new VMware ESX Implementation Guide that addresses changes in 3PAR InformOS 3.1.2, and VMware 3PAR best practices. One notable change is a new "host persona", 11, which is now recommended for VMware ESX hosts. Persona 11 is VMware specific, and shows up as "VMware" in the CLI. This...
VMware has released a high priority View security bulletin that affects View 5.x users prior to 5.1.2 and View 4.x users prior to 4.6.2. This is a directory traversal security vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to get access to any file on the affected View Servers. For externally facing...
When deploying Group Policies in a Windows environment, often you may have different GPOs for different versions of the operating systems. With the recent release of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, it's likely you will have new GPOs just for these operating systems. You could build out new OUs...
As you may or may not have heard, last week HP announced their new mid-range 3PAR arrays, the 7000 series which I covered here. HP is clearly targeting existing EVA users with the aggressively priced 7000s, with a simple and online method to migrate active LUNs to 3PAR. Since the...
A few days ago HP released their December 2012 "recipe" for ProLiant driver and firmware versions which have been tested and blessed for usage with VMware ESXi. Keeping your firmware up to date is very important, as updates often address bugs that you may run into. However, you can't just randomly...
Very quietly HP has released a product called VMware SmartComponents for Insight Control for vCenter. What is that you may ask? Very good question, as I had no idea either and I try to keep up with HP firmware as much as possible. In short, given the right supported environment,...
A few days ago HP released Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server, version 7.1.1. This is a minor update from the 7.1 release, which came out not too long ago. The December release is a minor increment which now supports the 3PAR StoreServ 7000 series announced last week, and v10.0...
Today Microsoft released a 'refreshed' SQL Server 2012 SP1 ISO, which includes two hotfixes for installation problems. They also slimmed down the ISOs so they only contain x86 or x64 bits, not both. From the TechNet description:--This media refresh includes fixes to the installation issue described in KB Article 2792097....