VMware has just released Update 2 for vSphere 5.0 which contains a few minor new features and of course bug fixes to both ESXi 5.0 Update 2 and vCenter Server 5.0 Update 2. While going through the ESXi release notes and reviewing the changes (hopefully everyone is doing this), a few things caught my eyes. I thought I share a few of these updates since I have seen a few of these mentioned in past VMTN community threads, Twitter and internal mailing list/discussions.
What’s New:
Support for additional guest operating systems – This release adds support for Solaris 11, Solaris 11.1 and Mac OS X Server Lion 10.7.5 guest operating systems.
Resolved Issues:
The time out option does not work when you re-enable the ESXi Shell and SSH
If you set a non-zero time out value for SSH & ESXi Shell, the SSH & ESXi Shell gets disabled after reaching the time out value. But, if you re-enable SSH or ESXi Shell without changing the timeout setting, the SSH & ESXi Shell does not timeout.
DNS might not get configured on hosts installed using scripts that specifies using DHCP
If you install ESXi host using a script that specifies the host to obtain the network settings from DHCP, after booting, the host is not configured with a DNS. The DNS setting is set to manual with no address specified.
Reinstallation of ESXi 5.0 does not remove the Datastore label of the local VMFS of an earlier installation
Re-installation of ESXi 5.0 with an existing local VMFS volume retains the Datastore label even after the user chooses the overwrite datastore option to overwrite the VMFS volume.
There are many more resolved issues and I highly encourage you to check out the rest of the fixes in the ESXi 5.0 Update 2 release notes.
In additional to the updates and fixes in ESXi 5.0 Update 2, there are also several fixes for vCenter Server 5.0 Update 2. The most noticeable update is the fix that allows you to rename virtual machine files using a Storage vMotion which my colleague Frank Denneman goes into more detail in his article here. I also encourage you to check out the vCenter 5.0 Update 2 release notes for other fixes and updates and remember to test all new releases in a development or test environment prior to upgrading to production.
I hope everyone has a Happy Holiday and Happy New Years, see you all back in 2013!
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