Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.0 (VMware Press Technology)
is the complete, technical, hands-on guide to VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5.0 installation and configuration for experienced VMware professionals.

VMware forum moderator and vExpert Mike Laverick fully explains SRM 5.0’s failover/failback procedures, walks readers through configuring storage replication with hardware from several leading suppliers, and shows how to efficiently implement fast, automated, centralized disaster recovery.

Drawing on his extensive experience with SRM and vSphere, Laverick identifies common pitfalls and errors, explains why they occur, and shows exactly how to fix them. Fully up to date for SRM 5.0, this book delivers “in-the-trenches” technical knowledge you won’t find anywhere else, including expert guidance for utilizing SRM 5.0’s advanced new vSphere Replication (VR).

Have you tried VMware’s new Google powered KB search tool?

Recently, VMware revamped the ‘File an SR’ page on their site. This is the webpage you need to visit when you wish to open a Support Request online.

What you may not have noticed is that there is a search facility on that page to help you find self-help resources, after all, most of us know the answer to our problem is probably already documented, we just need the answer – and we need it now!

What’s interesting about this search is that it’s completely new, and independent from the old Knowledgebase search, which many will agree, has been poorly lacking in returning the most relevant results. Well, as I said in my opening sentence, this search is Google powered! They have one of those neat blue colored rack-mount Google appliances indexing the Knowledgebase and serving up the most relevant content using Google’s proprietary algorithms.

Try it!

URL: http://www.vmware.com/srfile/

ESX 4.0 Patch 10 is now available for download from VMware’s website: http://www.vmware.com/patch/download/

• Resolves an issue where ESX host might fail with PSOD when a physical NIC that does not support VLAN offload is moved from a vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS) to a vNetwork Standard Switch (vSS) or from one vDS to another vDS.
• Resolves an issue where powering on virtual machines might report some virtual machines in an invalid state due to exhaustion of VMkernel socket resources on ESX hosts.
• Resolves an issue where a cache error occurs when a user name or group name that uses mixed case is fetched from an Active Directory Server through LDAP or QAS.
• Updates the ESX service console kernel to kernel-2.6.18-238.9.1.el5.
• Upgrades qlogic-fchba-provider to version 1.3.5, which contains updated QLogic CIM provider libraries.
• Updates the krb5-libs and krb5-workstation RPMs to version 1.6.1-55.el5_6.1.
• Updates mptsas, mpt2sas, and mptspi drivers.

Documentation & Release Notes
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch Release ESX400-201110001 http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1036391
VMware ESXi 4.0, Patch Release ESXi400-201110001 http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1036397

More KBs on the patches:

VMware ESX 4.0, Patch Release ESX400-201110001
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201110401-SG: Updates VMkernel, VMX, hostd,”> VMware Tools
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201110402-BG: Updates qlogic-fchba-provider
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201110403-SG: Updates Kerberos RPMs
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201110404-BG: Updates SATA AHCI controller driver
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201110405-BG: Updates sudo RPM
VMware ESXi 4.0, Patch Release ESXi400-201110001
VMware ESXi 4.0, Patch ESXi400-201110401-SG: Updates Firmware
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201110406-SG: Updates dhclient
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201110407-BG: Updates tzdata
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201110408-SG: Updates glibc, glibc-common, nscd
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201110409-SG: Updates mptsas, mpt2sas, mptspi drivers
VMware ESX 4.0, Patch ESX400-201110410-SG: Updates e1000 and e1000e drivers