Release: vCenter 2.5 Update 4

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Feb 242009
 

From the what’s new section of  the release notes :

  • Guest Operating System Customization Improvements – VirtualCenter now supports customization of Windows Server 2008 guest operating systems.
  • Performance Overview Charts – VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 4 introduces the Performance Overview plug-in, which provides a single view of key performance metrics for CPU, memory, disk, and network without having to navigate through multiple charts. The aggregated charts show high-level summaries of resource distribution.
    To install the Performance Overview plug-in, see Installing the Performance Overview Plug-In in VirtualCenter 2.5 Update4 (KB 1008296)

Sorry for the short description, tons of news to blog on today……

VMware to deliver the client hypervisor

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Feb 242009
 

Well, it’s public now so I can blog and talk about it.  VMWare will deliver the client hypervisor called CVP (Client Virtualization Platform – rolls off the tongue doesn’t it?).  You can read all of the press release here .

More details to come shortly as they are released pubically.  In the meantime, feel free to ponder what this could mean for desktop OS licensing.

Notable KB Articles from the week

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Feb 232009
 

Have a few to report of the 55 new/updated articles from the week.

Notable KB Articles for the week

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Feb 152009
 

Some interesting things to know in the selection from the 93 KB articles new or updated this past week.  I definitely noticed a number of new articles on Linux Conversions now that Converter 4.0 supports them .

VMWare Converter 4.0 released

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Feb 132009
 

VMware Converter 4.0 has been released and it’s a biggie.  One particular big feature is now in it, Linux conversions!

From the Release Notes :

The VMware vCenter Converter Standalone release adds several new features including:

  • Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Linux (RHEL, SUSE and Ubuntu) as source
  • Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Windows Server 2008 as source
  • Hot cloning improvements to clone any incremental changes to physical machine during the P2V conversion process
  • Support for converting new third-party image formats including Parallels Desktop virtual machines, newer versions of Symantec, Acronis, and StorageCraft
  • Workflow automation enhancements to include automatic source shutdown, automatic start-up of the destination virtual machine as well as shutting down one or more services at the source and starting up selected services at the destination
  • Target disk selection and the ability to specify how the volumes are laid out in the new destination virtual machine
  • Destination virtual machine configuration, including CPU, memory, and disk controller type

The following features are no longer supported:

  • NT4 hot cloning
  • ESX 2.5 destination

You can find the download for converter here .

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