VMware Product Updates

It’s been a week or so of updates below is a list of the updates and associated links.

vSphere 5.0 Update 1
VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1
VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 1
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0.1
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat 6.4 Update 1
vCenter Orchestrator 4.2 Update 1
vShield Products 1.0 Update 2
vCenter Configuration Manager 5.5
vFabric App Insight 1.1.0
vFabric Applicaton Director 1.0
VMware Service Manager 9.1 Patch 1
VMware View 5.0.1, 4.6.1
vFabric Hyperic 4.6.5
VMware View Clients 5.0 Windows,1.4 ipad, ubuntu & android
VMware vShield 5.0.1
VMware vCloud Director 1.5.1
vSphere Update Manager Update 5.0 Update 1

Stretched Clusters and VMware vCenter, Site Recovery Manager

Been meaning to get this up....better late than never.

Stretched Clusters and VMware vCenter, Site Recovery Manager


"This paper is intended to clarify concepts involved with choosing solutions for vSphere site availability, and to help understand the use cases for availability solutions for the virtualized infrastructure.
Specific guidance is given around the intended use of DR solutions like VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager and contrasted with the intended use of geographically stretched clusters spanning multiple datacenters.
While both solutions excel at their primary use case, their strengths lie in different areas which are explored within."

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/Stretched_Clusters_and_VMware_vCenter_Site_Recovery_Manage_USLTR_Regalix.pdf

Antivirus Practices for VMware View 5

The documents talks about Best Practices for protecting VMware View Desktops from viruses.

http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10258

"This paper focuses on the best practices for protection against viruses in the VMware View™ 5 virtual desktop
environment. Antivirus software is one of the largest segments in today’s computer security market. Nearly
every enterprise deploys antivirus software on every desktop. As services such as security, mobility, access
control, and line-of-business applications are all rolled up into the datacenter or cloud, antivirus practices need
to be rolled up as well."

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/VMware-View-AntiVirusPractices-TN-EN.pdf

The Virtualization Performance Show

VROOM  is hosting a weekly Virtualization Performance Show.

They have scheduled to be run every Friday for five weeks. The host will be Todd Muirhead.

The schedule is as follows;

• VROOM - VMmark: March 9th
• VROOM - Million IOPS: March 16th
• VROOM - Hadoop: March 23rd
• VROOM - NFS: March 30th
• VROOM - vMotion: April 6th

You don’t have to register, go to livestream.com/vmwarecommunitytv at 10am Pacific Standard Time this Friday.