Recently Update 1 for vSphere 4.0 came available. It seems there is a serious issue when upgrading from 4.0 to 4.0 Update 1 using Update Manager and where ESX-hosts make use of 3rd party Monitoring agents (in COS).

Upgrading to U1 using Update Manager with 3rd party management agents active may result in a failure [...]

I noticed a small cosmetic thing while upgrading my homelab to vSphere Update1.

With the Update 1 release of vSphere, VMware also introduced her new logo into the applications area. Here’s a screenshot:

Before upgrade (vSphere 4.0):

After upgrade (vSphere 4.0 Update 1):

Another change with this update is the ability [...]

Quest just released the Quest vWorkspace Mac AppPortal.

Michel Roth twittered/blogged on the Quest Blog:

Just a quick note that we recently released our Quest vWorkspace Mac AppPortal. This is a full vWorkspace AppPortal client meaning that you can run it using Quest vWorkspace Web Access, as the native AppPortal app [...]

 
Last Saturday VMware View 4.0 was released for download.

I’ve been looking forward to this release ever since I saw the first demo’s of the Teradici Desktop Protocol PCoIP at VMworld Europe in Cannes last February. Those two days of extra waiting for the product to become GA did [...]

For some time now I am busy converting (P2V) old windows servers (NT4 & 2000). Because the hosts are in a different subnet compared to the P2V candidates and behind a firewall, it took me some time to gather all used ip ports from different documents.

I was happily surprised to see [...]