I’m sure this news spreads quicker via the blogs than VMware’s official announcements but in-case you’ve missed it, there’s a new version of vCenter & ESX available today.
There’s a bunch of new O/S customisation enhancements for (XP SP2 64-bit, Win2k3 SP2, SLES 11, SLES10, RHEL 4.8, 5.4 & 5.5, Debian 5.0 R1 & R2)
The usual array of bug fixes, plus a few interesting enhancements to ESX including a nice addition to resxtop (see below)
- Additional Guest Operating System Support— ESX/ESXi 4.0 Update 2 adds support for Ubuntu 10.04. For a complete list of supported guest operating systems with this release, see the VMware Compatibility Guide.
- Enablement of Fault Tolerance Functionality for Intel Xeon 56xx Series processors— vSphere 4.0 Update 1 supports the Intel Xeon 56xx Series processors without Fault Tolerance. vSphere 4.0 Update 2 enables Fault Tolerance functionality for the Intel Xeon 56xx Series processors.
- Enablement of Fault Tolerance Functionality for Intel i3/i5 Clarkdale Series and Intel Xeon 34xx Clarkdale Series processors— vSphere 4.0 Update 1 supports the Intel i3/i5 Clarkdale Series and Intel Xeon 34xx Clarkdale Series processors without Fault Tolerance. vSphere 4.0 Update 2 enables Fault Tolerance functionality for the Intel i3/i5 Clarkdale Series and Intel Xeon 34xx Clarkdale Series processors.
- Enablement of IOMMU Functionality for AMD Opteron 61xx and 41xx Series processors— vSphere 4.0 Update 1 supports the AMD Opteron 61xx and 41xx Series processors without input/output memory management unit (IOMMU). vSphere 4.0 Update 2 enables IOMMU functionality for the AMD Opteron 61xx and 41xx Series processors.
- Enhancement of the esxtop/resxtop utility— vSphere 4.0 Update 2 includes an enhancement of the performance monitoring utilities, esxtop and resxtop. The esxtop/resxtop utilities now provide visibility into the performance of NFS datastores in that they display the following statistics for NFS datastores: Reads/s, writes/s, MBreads/s,MBwrtn/s, cmds/s, GAVG/s(guest latency).
The ESX U2 release notes are here: http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_esx40_u2_rel_notes.html
The vCenter U2 release notes are here: http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_vc40_u2_rel_notes.html
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