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ESXi 4.1 Update 2 Release last week.

Nathan Simon — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:16:13 +0000

Did you notice? I didn’t notice either until yesterday, ESXi 4.1 Update 2 is out, and its basically an update that supports more CPUs and OS’, CPU’s and OS’ that have been release after ESXi 4.1 Update 1. Here is an insert from VMware.com

What’s New

The following information describes some of the enhancements available in this release of VMware ESXi:

Support for new processors – ESXi 4.1 Update 2 supports AMD Opteron 6200 series (Interlagos) and AMD Opteron 4200 series (Valencia).
Note: For the AMD Opteron 6200 and 4200 series (Family 15h) processors, ESX/ESXi 4.1 Update 2 treats each core within a compute unit as an independent core, except while applying licenses. For the purpose of licensing, ESX/ESXi treats each compute unit as a core. For example, although a processor with 8 compute units can provide the processor equivalent of 16 cores on ESX/ESXi 4.1 Update 2, it only uses 8 licenses.
Support for additional guest operating systems — ESXi 4.1 Update 2 adds support for the following guest operating systems:

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Enterprise, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate

Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Datacenter, Enterprise, Standard, Web Server

Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.9, 5.7 and 6.1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Desktop 10 Service Pack 4

CentOS 4.9, 5.6 and 6.0

Oracle Linux 4.9, 5.7, 6.0 and 6.1

Ubuntu 11.04 Server, Desktop

Asianux Server 3 SP4

For a complete list of guest operating systems supported with this release, see the VMware Compatibility Guide.
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Support for additional guest operating system -ESX 4.1 Update 2 adds support for Ubuntu 11.10 guest operating system. For a complete list of guest operating systems supported with this release, see the VMware Compatibility Guide.

Resolved Issues - In addition, this release delivers a number of bug fixes that are documented in the Resolved Issues section.

I do not see any reason for going to ESXi 4.1 Update 2, unless you work for a company that follows strict policy, or hasn’t renewed support with VMware. Other wise I would start migrating towards ESXi 5.0.

-NS

GoDaddy unveils cloud computing

Nathan Simon — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:56:54 +0000

Cloud Computing has become so prevalent over the last couple years and GoDaddy is finally on the bandwagon.

It looks like web hosting giant GoDaddy is now in the cloud computing business with a new service called Data Center On Demand, which could potentially make a dent in the market share of providers such as Amazon Web Services or Rackspace. The service is currently in a limited-release phase and is expected to launch in July.

They have many operating systems to choose from like Windows(of course), CentOS, Ubuntu, and Fedora. Prices Range from 30$ a month to over 300$ a month, 1GB of Ram Virtual Machine to 8GB of Ram dedicated machine.

VMware Workstation 7.1.3

Nathan Simon — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:08:29 +0000

VMware Workstation v7.1.3 is a maintenance release that resolves some known issues. Its isn’t a major release so unless you are having issues with the application, there isn’t a need to upgrade yet.

When launching previous versions of VMware Workstation you will get a notice stating that this update is available. You can read all about v7.1.3 if you follow this link, the link covers, “What’s New”, Prior Releases”, “Known Issues”, and “Resolved Issues”.

-NS