Posts tagged "esx-2"

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What's New in vCloud Suite 5.5: Introduction

Aug 26, 2013

I would say that this is an evolutionary rather than revolutionary update being the third major release in the vSphere 5 family (5.0,5.1,5.5). There are however some significant storage additions such as Virtual SAN (VSAN) and VMware Virtual Flash (vFlash) as well as a new vSphere App HA to provide application software high availability which is in addition to vSphere HA. VMware has also respon...

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What's New in vCloud Suite 5.5: vCenter Server SSO

Aug 26, 2013

VMware has announced its latest update to version 5.5 of its global virtualisation powerhouse, vCloud Suite. To read the updates for all the suite components, see my post: ( Evolving vCenter is a major undertaking as it was originally built as a monolithic platform with everything included in one place. VMware’s strategy is to pull out all the core central services from vCenter and have them ru...

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HP updates its customised images for VMware ESXi 5.1 and 5.0 Update 2 for Feb 2013

Mar 7, 2013

HP has updated its ESXi 5.x customised images as part of its ( (SPP) Feb 2013 update. HP's customised images are fully integrated sets of specific drivers and software that are tested to work together. You can see the list of ( I have done an extensive update of my ( post which includes these new customised images. HP Custom Image for VMware ESXi 5.1 February 2013: ( The new and updated feature...

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New HP Emulex drivers and firmware released for VMware ESXi 5.x

Mar 7, 2013

Emulex has released a new set of drivers and firmware for use on Gen8 and G7 HP Servers including blades with both VMware ESXi 5.0 and 5.1. Driver: Emulex be2net nic driver version _4.2.327.0_ which is included in the HP Custom Image for VMware ESXi 5.1 February 2013: ( and HP Custom Image for VMware ESXi 5.0.0 Update 2 February 2013: ( or can be downloaded separately from ( Emulex has also rel...

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VMware vVolumes: the game changing future for storage is demoed

Oct 29, 2012

At VMworld 2011. VMware Virtual Volumes, vVolumes or vVols for short was previewed which I ( You can now see the original presentation: VMworld 2011: VSP3205 - VMware vStorage APIs for VM and Application Granular Data Management Well, another year and another VMworld has passed and it seems the storage game changer is getting closer to seeing the light of day if the recent spate of tech preview...

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Get the fantastic VMware reference posters

Sep 17, 2012

Unless you are a photographic memory super VCDX you probably don't have every single ESXi command line, PowerCLI Cmdlet or vCloud Networking construct available in memory. Luckily for the rest of us normal people, VMware has released some fantastic posters detailing these topics in an easy to grab format which you can download for your pleasure. They are large format .PDF posters so you can pri...

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HP ESXi customised images now available on vmware.com

Aug 7, 2012

HP has been creating its own customised ESXi images for while now which contain all the HP specific drivers and software which could be downloaded from somewhere on HPs website (unfortunately ( isn't the easiest thing to do). ( These images are now available to download directly from VMware's site alongside images from NEC, Hitachi and Cisco. ( Click on OEM Customized Installer CDs. There are a...

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HP G7 Blades: New Emulex firmware 4.1.402.20 released

Jul 2, 2012

The June HP Service Pack for ProLiant 2012.06.0(B) had a _4.1.402.8_ firmware version so it looks like it only had a lifespan of a month and has now been superseded by _4.1.402.20_. Unfortunately it doesn't look like the HP VMware Recipe for June has been updated ( The installation is as before and requires you to boot off an .ISO and update manually. (I have a dream that one day...) Before Jun...

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HP G7 Blade new Emulex be2net ESX(i) drivers 4.1.334.0 now supported

Jun 6, 2012

VMware recently released a ( for both ESX(i) 4.x and ESXi 5.x for the Emulex OneConnect 10Gb Ethernet Controller which is used in HP G7 Blades. These new drivers were not supported by HP when released but HP has now certified this driver and included it its new ( ESX(i) 4.x ( ESXi 5.x ( I’ve updated my post: (

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HP releases new June customised images for ESXi 5.0 Update 1 and ESXi 4.1 Update 2

Jun 6, 2012

HP has released new versions for June of its customised ESXi images and offline bundles which include ESXi 5.0 Update 1 and ESXi 4.1 Update 2. You can view the contents of all customised HP images here: (

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