Although VMware already released version 5.1 of vSphere it still updates earlier supported versions as well. VMware has released Update 2 for both its hypervisor ESXi and its hypervisor management platform vCenter 5.0. This update can be installed on top of vSphere 5.0 or vSphere 5.0 Update 1.
ESXi 5.0 update 2 adds some support for additional Operating Systems and fixes a long list of issues as described in the release notes:
- Support for Solaris 11 & 11.1
- Support for Mac OS X Server Lion 10.7.5
- ESXi 5.0.x System Event Log (SEL) is empty on certain servers
- Visuals in third party applications are corrupted while using VMware SVGA 3D driver in 3D enabled mode
- DNS might not get configured on hosts installed using scripts that specifies using DHCP
- ESXi host fails with a purple diagnostic screen when you try to plug-in or unplug a keyboard or mouse through a USB port
- ESXi 5.0 host fails due to a world slot memory leak
- RHEL 6 virtual machine configured with RDM devices through PVSCSI adapter might encounter I/O failure
- Update to ESX userworld OpenSSL library addresses multiple security issues
- And more…
vCenter Server 5.0 update 2 also adds some support for additional Operating Systems and fixes a long list of issues as described in the release notes:
- Support for running vCenter Server on Windows Server 2012
- Support for the Guest OS Customization
- Windows 8
- Windows Server 2012
- Ubuntu 12.04
- RHEL 6.2 and 6.3
- vCenter Essentials no longer enforces vRAM usage limit of 192 GB
- Unable to use host profile to join an ESX host to a domain if the domain name starts with a digit
- vCenter Server might stop responding when there is excess memory consumption
- Oracle (Sun) JRE is updated to version 1.6.0_31, which addresses multiple security issues
- vSphere 5 Storage vMotion is unable to rename virtual machine files on completing migration
- And more…