vSphere 4 Update 1 Released
http://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2009/11/19/vsphere-4-update-1-released/While the Dutch and UK bloggers sleep, VMware has released Update 1 for ESXi 4, ESX 4, and vCenter 4.
Notable improvements include:
- View 4 support
- Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 support (Support for Windows 7 was timed nicely for View 4)
- DB2 database back end support (Who requested this? Sound off, I’d like to hear your comments)
- HA cluster hosts can now support 160 VMs each in a cluster of 8 hosts or less. 9 or more hosts in an HA cluster are still limited to 40 VMs per host (This still bugs me a little. Anyone loading up a host with near 160 or more VMs?)
- Paravirtualized SCSI support has been extended to Windows 2003 and 2008 boot drives
- vDS performance improvement (Important if creating VMkernel portgroups on vDS for NAS storage)
- vCPUs per core limit increased from 20 to 25 (”Lorraine – You are my density…”)
- Intel Xeon 3400 series CPU support
- Improved support for Microsoft Clustering (Yes, more changes to the wonderful MS clustering document)
- Rumors of comma separators in report/graph numbers (This could be my favorite new feature)
- Many resolved issues
Last but not least, we can still reboot our ESX 4 hosts with CTRL + ALT + DEL at the console
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