Plus d’évolution de VMware Lab Manager

VMware l’a annoncé le 14 février, il n’y aura plus de mise à jour majeure de VMware Lab Manager.

Le support sera assuré jusqu’au 1er mai 2013

We want to provide you with an important update about the vCenter Lab Manager product.  As customers continue to expand the use of virtualization both inside the datacenter and outside the firewall, we are focusing on delivering infrastructure solutions that can support these expanded scalability and security requirements.  As a result of this focus, we have decided to discontinue additional major releases of vCenter Lab Manager.  Lab Manager 4 will continue to be supported in line with our General Support Policy through May 1st, 2013.

As VMware continues to invest in our customers’ journey to cloud computing, we are focusing on delivering secure multi-tenant enterprise hybrid clouds with VMware vCloud Director.  vCloud Director is a new software solution that provides the scalability and security necessary to deliver catalog-based self-service provisioning across different workload types, across multiple enterprise tenants, and across both private and public deployment models.

As a customer of Lab Manager, we would like to offer you a special opportunity to leverage the scale and security of vCloud Director.  Customers who are active on SnS may exchange their existing licenses of Lab Manager to licenses of vCloud Director at no additional cost.  This exchange program is entirely optional and may be exercised anytime during Lab Manager’s General Support period.  This provides you the freedom and flexibility to decide whether and when to implement a secure enterprise hybrid cloud.

For more information about this product update, visit http://www.vmware.com/go/labmanager-update

A lire avant de migrer vers vSphere 4.1

A peine quelques jours après la sortie de vSphere 4.1, un certain nombre de KB sont déjà disponibles, voici une liste non exhaustive, à étudier avant de migrer :

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VMware vSphere 4.0 Update 2 et le Cisco Nexus 1000v

Si vous utilisez le switch virtuel de chez Cisco pour vSphere et que vous souhaitez mettre à jour votre infrastructure virtuelle avec l’update 2, n’oublie pas la gestion des compatibilités entre le Nexus 1000v et vSphere.

En effet ESX 4.0 U2 n’est pas compatible avec le Nexus 1000V release 4.0(4)SV1(1). Il est impératif de mettre à jour le Nexus 1000v avec la release  4.0(4)SV1(2) ou mieux la release 4.0(4)SV1(3) du module VEM.

VMware vSphere 4 Update 1 avec le Cisco Nexus 1000v

Attention si votre infrastructure comporte des Cisco Nexus 1000v, lors de l’upgrade de vSphere 4 vers vSphere 4 Update 1.

Il est impératif de mettre à jour les VEM (Virtual Ethernet Module) du Cisco Nexus 1000v juste après l’upgrade.

vSphere 4 Update 1

Une grande partie de la suite vSphere vient d’être mise à jour :

  • ESX 4 Update 1
  • ESXi 4 Update 1
  • vCenter 4 Update 1
  • DataRecovery 1.1

La suite sur Forum-VMware