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ESX / ESXi 3.5 Update 4 Released

Yesterday, VMware announced the availability of ESX / ESXi 3.5 Update 4 (build number 153875). As usual you can view the release notes for all of the juicy details but in summary they are: More >

Keeping Up With VMworld 2009

If, like me, you couldn’t get to Cannes this year then all is not lost. You can keep up with what’s happenning almost as it happens and still keep working. Many of the attendees are tweeting the major annoucements and updates of what they are doing. Follow them on Twitter and they’ll keep you up to date.

Alan Renouf (Virtu-Al) maintains a list of VMware twits on his blog and even has a PowerShell script that will enable you to follow them all on Twitter.

vCenter 2.5 Update 4 released

Update 4 of vCenter 2.5 (the management tool for VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure) has been released. Not a huge number of new features and probably a few bug fixes is about all you’re going to get from it. The release notes can be found here.

vCenter now supports the customisation of Windows 2008 guest operating systems as well as introducing a Performance Overview plugin that provides a single view of performance metrics – I look forward to having a look at that.