Month: January 2012

New HP Service Pack for Proliant Released

One of the challenges with managing a lot of virtualized HP servers is firmware updates. Unlike Windows or Linux hosts where you can perform relatively simple on-line updates, ESX(i) hosts must be done offline. Traditionally you boot from the HP Firmware DVD and apply the updates. The update process was...

VCP5 Upgrade Deadline Looms

For those of you that have a VMware VCP4 and want to take the VCP5 exam without additional classroom training requirements, your time is short! February 29th, 2012 is the last day you can take upgrade exam. For some good study material, I recommend the vSphere Resource Kit site. It...

VMware Workstation 8.02 Released

VMware just released Workstation 8.0.2, up from 8.0.1. This is not a major release, but has a few enhancements: Ubuntu 11.10 is supported as a host. Fedora 16 is supported as a guest. Fixed bugs include: The ACLs on the PID files needed improvement. VMware thanks Inode0 for bringing this...