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Minor VMware updates released on December 20

Minor VMware updates released on December 20

VMware announced some updates for several products: VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 2 VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 2 VMware vCenter Server 5.1.0b VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.0.2 VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 VMware vCloud Connector 2.0 VMware ESXi 5.0 Update 2 What’s New Not much new here. Mostly support for additional guest operating systems and some resolved issues. For more information read the release notes. VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 2 What’s New This release offers the following…

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New VMware patch released: Auto Start Bug Fixed

New VMware patch released: Auto Start Bug Fixed

When VMware release ESXi 5.0 Update 1 the auto start manager broke which was first discovered and discussed on the communities and later on in an official blog post. VMware now released a new patch which resolves this issue. The new patch also fixes some other bugs and security issues. Installing the patch does require a reboot of the host before it works again. If you have ESXi 5.0 Update 1 installed I suggest you update as soon as possible…

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VMware Workstation 8.0.4 and VMware Fusion 4.1.3 released

VMware Workstation 8.0.4 and VMware Fusion 4.1.3 released

Today VMware released minor updates for VMware Workstation (bringing the version to 8.0.4) and VMware Fusion (bringing the version to 4.1.3). These contains a few bug and security fixes. They are available now and are free as usual. VMware Workstation General Issues Linux guests running the Linux kernel version 2.6.34 or later could not be pinged from the host via an IPv6 address. On rare occasions, Linux guests would suddenly fail to Autofit or enter Unity. Unity mode would exit…

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Securing vCenter Mobile Access using fail2ban

Securing vCenter Mobile Access using fail2ban

This is a small post which explains how you can secure vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA). For the people who don’t know what vCenter Mobile Access is I suggest you check out the Flings page. People who use the iPad vSphere Client will probably have this Fling running in their environment or lab. The Fling itself is a CentOS install which has a few ports open to the outside by default. The following commands will help you install Fail2ban and give…

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