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Yesterday VMware released version 3.5u3 of their flagship product ESX, several new features are appealing for me. In previous 3.5 versions it was not possible to tarball upgrade to those versions; gladly VMware corrected this and with the u3 version it’s possible. To do this follow the procedure in the Upgrade Guide pages 76 for ESX2 hosts and 77 for ESX3 hosts.

This u3 version incorporates a number of other features Read the rest of this entry »

We (Matthijs Haverink and I) have updated our application virtualization chart with the latest release of Citrix XenApp 5.0, Microsoft App-V and Xenocode 2008 SP1. We also changed Symantec Appstream in the chart by combining it with SVS pro, a more commonly used combination. Read the rest of this entry »

VMWare has released a new build of their flagship products ESX3.5Update2 (build #110268) and ESX3i 3.5Update2 (build #110271), due to the problems mentioned earlier on this blog. VMWare kept their promise to fix the problems with the expiration bug very quick. The updated binaries can be downloaded here.

The ESX managing tool ESX Manager written by Dennis Zimmer has reached version 2.3 and incorporates support for ESX 3.5 but unfortunatly not 3i. It can be downloaded at the homesite of esxguide.

The feature list:

- Virtual Center independent
- Keeps track of Virtual Machine Host Registration, Migrations and Status
- Manage Virtual Machine Configuration Read the rest of this entry »

DABCC spotted 3 free utilities for your VMware virtual Infrastructure. The tools are from Mightycare Solutions GmbH and are released a while ago, but I thought they were worth mentioning:

• Snapshots Version 1.5: a small script you are able to check your virtual machines on a ESX server if there are in snapshot mode. 
• MCS VMStatus: connects to a VMware Virtual Center 2.5 server and displays a list of all virtual machines along with the following information. 
• MCS Storageview 1.0.5: displays the logical partitions of all virtual Machines in a VMware ESX 3.x or Virtual Center 2.x environment.