vSphere Update 1 and HP SIM agents
Phew - I'm glad I waited a little bit before installing vSphere update 1!
Turns out there's a nasty bug that will PSOD (purple screen of death) your vSphere hosts when updating if you are running HP SIM agents.
You can find the information here.
The document says that you should stop the HP agents on your host before updating. I can verify that this worked for me. I can also verify that not doing this will cause a PSOD - a colleague of mine had it happen.
This is exactly why I always wait at least a week after any major update... to see if it made the news.
vSphere Update 1 is out!
Apparently as I lay in bed in dreamland last night VMWare released vSphere update 1 - took long enough!
Update 1 brings several notable improvements:
• vSphere client works in Windows 7 - without a hack!
• You can run Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 as guest operating systems.
• View 4.0 support.
• Improved MSCS support.
• PVSCSI for 2003 and 2008.
• Improved dvswitch performance.
• 25 vCPU's per core!
• Support for Intel Xeon 3400 Series.
• And a whole lot of bug fixes.
No USB pass-through fix, and it seems like there are more known issues than fixed. To be fair, one of my VMWare colleagues mentioned that there were more known issues when 4 released than now, and most of these have existed since then.
For those of you with ESXi free, it's not available yet. No word on when it will be released - sorry!
Reports are already coming in of successful deployments, and I will probably update myself during next week’s rather large maintenance window (read: Thanksgiving).