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New maintenance releases containing security-related bug fixes are available for the following products: VMware Workstation 5.5.4, VMware ACE 1.0.3, VMware Player 1.0.4 and VMware Server 1.0.3.

VMware Converter 3.0.1 contains bug fixes and new features including import of VMware Consolidated Backup images, import of certain StorageCraft ShadowProtect images, and an experimental command line interface for migrations.

Lab Manager 2.5 Beta, build 212 is now available and provides a fix for the Deployment Lease feature.

New pre-release builds are now available for download: VMware ACE 2.0 Release Candidate, VMware Player 2.0 Release Candidate, VMware Workstation 6.0 Release Candidate.

VMware's self-service Web-based TCO Calculator estimates the return on investment of VMware Infrastructure and provides a detailed report of potential cost savings. Calculations are based on VMware customer surveys and experience in the field from working on VMware Infrastructure production deployments.

Update (April 19, 2007): New patches are available that replace the two recalled patches.  Details on the two links below.

Original post (April 18, 2007):

The 2.5.4 patch 6 (Build #41630) and 2.5.3 patch 9 (Build #41618) have been recalled in the interest of stability for ESX servers.

Lab Manager 2.5 Beta is now available. New features include iSCSI and NFS storage support, 64-bit guests, Solaris 10 guests,  automatic server pool cleanup, storage server maintenance, and managed server maintenance (release notes).  For questions and comments, see the VMTN Lab Manager Discussion Forum.

The public beta release of VMmark, a benchmark for quantifying the performance of virtualized environments, is now available. For more information, see the VMmark beta page and the announcement on the VMware performance blog, VROOM!

VMware Fusion Beta 3 has been released. New features include Boot Camp support (release notes).  VMware Consolidated Backup 1.0.2 is now available, and includes support for Windows Server 2003 R2 on the proxy server (release notes). For questions and comments on both products, please visit the VMTN Forums.

This year’s leading virtualization industry event will be held in San Francisco, CA on September 11-13, 2007.  Submit Your Proposals before April 27.