By Duncan Epping, Principal Architect.

Technical Marketing Update 2012 – Week 11 – #tmupdate

No white paper updates this week, but I promise there will be some really cool papers coming up soon. Nevertheless, the blog posts below are worth checking out… although I suspect that many of you are know upgrading your home-labs or test environment at work! Was I the only one who was shocked about the almost company wide update release? I don't think I have ever seen so many products being updated in a single wave. Some with minor features or fixes, others with life saving features like for instance vShield App providing the ability to exclude VMs from protection. (vCenter Server anyone?)

Blog posts:

• How to Deploy an OVF Located On ESXi Datastore Using ovftool (William Lam) goo.gl/D4r8h
• NetApp MetroCluster supported for 5.0? (Duncan Epping) http://bit.ly/AyfuXk 
• Linking your vCloud Director VMs and vSphere VMs (Alan Renouf) http://bit.ly/yjMslS 
• How to Access USB Storage in ESXi Shell (William Lam) http://bit.ly/yerQiu 
• vCDAudit for vCloud Director (Alan Renouf) bit.ly/zGZeQW 
• Audit Reporting with vCloud Director (Tom Stephens) bit.ly/wtg395
• Workstation and Fusion Tech Previews! (Duncan Epping) http://bit.ly/A9NOVJ 
• DR of View persistent linked clone desktops… (Duncan Epping) bit.ly/xGZfoT
• vCloud Director 1.5.1 Released! (Tom Stephens) http://bit.ly/xgozjg 
• Site Recovery Manager 5.0.1 available today (Ken Werneburg) http://bit.ly/zlUeGd 
• Reporting with the PowerCLI vCD Cmdlets (Alan Renouf) http://bit.ly/xUhe8o 
• Cloud Infrastructure Suite updates! (Duncan Epping) bit.ly/zfFcXo
• VAAI Thin Provisioning Block Reclaim/UNMAP is back in 5.0U1 (Cormac Hogan) bit.ly/wgrFmm
• vSphere 5.0 Update 1 released (Duncan Epping) http://bit.ly/wlA0O6 
• Excluding your vCenter Server from vShield App (5.0.1) protection now supported! (Duncan Epping) bit.ly/wQDywE