Wednesday, April 7, 2010

EMC Celerra/VMware TechBook

A new VMware/Celerra TechBook version (4.0) was published by EMC which will help for configuring the EMC storage Celerra with vSphere.
Following link will help you find the techbook:
http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/technical-documentation/h5536-vmware-esx-srvr-using-celerra-stor-sys-wp.pdf

New relese of vSphere (vSphere 4.1)

Most of the attendees were focusing on VMware Go and vCloud Express, in the press section noticed that the version number on vCenter Server was 4.1.0 .
The update that we can find in this new version of the vSphere is mostly based on the cloud computing.VMware made several performance and usability improvements in its virtual Distributed Switch (vDS) architecture. Performance is better when making configuration changes to a vDS instance in a heavily loaded ESX/ESXi host. There is also Improved performance when adding or removing an ESX/ESXi host to or from a vDS instance.VMware also modernized vSphere, adding support for Intel's Xeon 3400 series processor. Update 1 fixes a number of bugs found in 4.0 in a dozen different areas. Some of these fixes include VMs that would fail when hardware acceleration was fully enabled and a number changes impacting Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) support affecting vSphere in use in some Cisco environments.