Month: December 2012

HP Releases vSphere 5.0 U2 Custom ISO

In case you missed my previous blog post, yesterday VMware released vSphere 5.0 Update 2, which fixes a plethora of bugs and plugs security holes. You can find my host here, with links to the release notes for all the gory details. Right on the heels of VMware releasing 5.0...

VMware releases vSphere 5.0 Update 2

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...

VMware releases vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 security patches

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 releases vCenter Server 5.1.0b

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...

Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 now available

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,...

VMware 3PAR Best Practices Guide for InForm OS 3.1.2

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...

Highly Critical VMware View Security Bulletin for 4.x and 5.x

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...

WMI GPO Filters for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8

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...

December HP ProLiant VMware Firmware and Software Recipe

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...