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Alors que nous sommes tous impatients de tester les nouvelles fonctionnalités de vSphere 4.1, VMWare vient de sortir l’Update 2 pour vSphere 4.0.

Cette update est disponible pour ESX, ESXi, vCenter et inclus aussi DataRecovery 1.2.

Au programme de cette Update :

What’s New

The following information provides highlights of some of the enhancements available in this release of VMware ESX:

• Enablement of Fault Tolerance Functionality for Intel Xeon 56xx Series processors— vSphere 4.0 Update 1 supports the Intel Xeon 56xx Series processors without Fault Tolerance. vSphere 4.0 Update 2 enables Fault Tolerance functionality for the Intel Xeon 56xx Series processors.
• Enablement of Fault Tolerance Functionality for Intel i3/i5 Clarkdale Series and Intel Xeon 34xx Clarkdale Series processors— vSphere 4.0 Update 1 supports the Intel i3/i5 Clarkdale Series and Intel Xeon 34xx Clarkdale Series processors without Fault Tolerance. vSphere 4.0 Update 2 enables Fault Tolerance functionality for the Intel i3/i5 Clarkdale Series and Intel Xeon 34xx Clarkdale Series processors.
• Enablement of IOMMU Functionality for AMD Opteron 61xx and 41xx Series processors— vSphere 4.0 Update 1 supports the AMD Opteron 61xx and 41xx Series processors without input/output memory management unit (IOMMU). vSphere 4.0 Update 2 enables IOMMU functionality for the AMD Opteron 61xx and 41xx Series processors.
• Enhancement of the esxtop/resxtop utility— vSphere 4.0 Update 2 includes an enhancement of the performance monitoring utilities, esxtop and resxtop. The esxtop/resxtop utilities now provide visibility into the performance of NFS datastores in that they display the following statistics for NFS datastores: Reads/s, writes/s, MBreads/s,MBwrtn/s, cmds/s, GAVG/s(guest latency).
• Additional Guest Operating System Support— ESX/ESXi 4.0 Update 2 adds support for Ubuntu 10.04. For a complete list of supported guest operating systems with this release, see the VMware Compatibility Guide.

Source : release note VMware

Quant à DataRecovery  :

• File Level Restore (FLR) is now available for use with Linux.
• Each vCenter Server instance supports up to ten Data Recovery backup appliances.
• The vSphere Client plug-in supports fast switching among Data Recovery backup appliances.
• Miscellaneous vSphere Client Plug-In user interface enhancements including:
  • The means to name backup jobs during their creation.
  • Additional information about the current status of destination disks including the disk’s health and the degree of space savings provided by the deduplication store’s optimizations.
  • Information about the datastore from which virtual disks are backed up.

Source : release note VMware

Cette même release note inclut la procédure de mise à jour de VDR