VMware vCenter Server for Windows 5.0 Update 1 Release Notes

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vSphere Client 5.0 Update 1 | 15 March 2012 | Build 623373
Note: vCenter Server Appliance 5.0 Update1 will be available later this year.
Last updated: 15 March 2012
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What's in the Release Notes
These release notes cover the following topics:
    What's New
    Internationalization
    Features added in this release
    Compatibility and Installation
    Upgrades for This Release
    Open Source Components for vmware vSphere
    Product Support Notices
    Resolved Issues
    Known Issues
What's New
The VMware vCenter Server for Windows 5.0 Update 1 offers the following improvements:
    Guest Operating System Customization Improvements: vCenter Server adds support for customization of the following guest operating systems:
        Windows 8
        Ubuntu 11.10
        Ubuntu 11.04
        Ubuntu 10.10
        Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
        SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
    Resolved Issues:In addition, this release delivers a number of bug fixes that have been documented in the Resolved Issues section.
Internationalization
VMware vSphere 5.0 is available in the following languages:
    English
    French
    German
    Japanese
    Korean
    Simplified Chinese
vSphere Client Locale Forcing Mode
With vSphere 5.0, you can configure the VMware vSphere Client? to provide the interface text in English even when the machine on which it is running is not English. You can set this configuration for the duration of a single session by supplying a command-line switch. This configuration applies to the interface text and does not affect other locale-related settings such as date and time or numeric formatting.
The following vSphere Client command causes the individual session to appear in English:
vpxClient -locale en_US
Features added in this release
    vCenter Essentials is incorporated with hard enforce vRAM limits
    In vSphere Essential edition, a hard enforcement is added to limit vRAM usage (192GB). Once the limit is met, additional operations (such as powerOnVM) that lead to license over usage will be prevented. This enforcement is only added to Essential editions, other editions do not have this.
    vCenter now enforces restrictions on which vSphere editions can be managed by vCenters
    With this feature, vCenter Standard and Foundation is disallowed from managing vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus host editions. This is disallowed per the EULA already, but was not programmatically enforced until now. The exception to this rule is the ‘Essentials for ROBO’ edition. This is still allowed per the EULA and as per the programmatic enforcement. Furthermore, it is also enforced that vCenter Essentials can only manage Essentials and Essentials Plus hosts.
    License use reporting does not cap per-VM vRAM consumption reporting at 96GB per VM
    When viewing vSphere 5.0 vRAM usage reporting, VMs configured to use greater than 96GB of configured RAM reported the full configured RAM value, regardless of the vRAM license policy which states that greater than 96GB per VM usage is not counted against your vRAM entitlement.
    Support for Database Pre-Upgrade Checker 1.0
    Before you upgrade vCenter Server, you can run the VMware vCenter Database Pre-Upgrade Checker on your current vCenter Server database to reveal problems that could prevent the upgrade. You can use the Pre-Upgrade Checker for the following upgrades:
        On a VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 6 or later database before you upgrade to vCenter Server 4.x
        On a vCenter Server 4.0.x database before you upgrade to vCenter Server 4.1 or 5.0
        On a vCenter Server 4.1.x database before you upgrade to vCenter Server 5.0
Compatibility and Installation
ESXi, vCenter Server, and vSphere Client Version Compatibility
The VMware Product Interoperability Matrix provides details about the compatibility of current and previous versions of VMware vSphere components, including ESXi, VMware vCenter Server, the vSphere Client, and optional VMware products. In addition, check this site for information about supported management and backup agents before installing ESXi or vCenter Server.
The vSphere Web Client and the vSphere Client are packaged with the vCenter Server and modules ZIP file. You can install one or both clients from the VMware vCenter Installer wizard.
vSphere Client Connections to Linked Mode Environments
vCenter Server 5.0 can exist in Linked Mode only with other instances of vCenter Server 5.0. Linked Mode groups that contain both vCenter Server 5.0 and earlier versions of vCenter Server (such as vCenter Server 4.0 and vCenter Server 4.1) are not supported. In this release, you can manage Linked Mode groups that contain both vCenter Server 5.0 and vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1 instances.
vSphere 5.0 and VMware View Compatibility
To learn about vSphere configurations supported with VMware View, see the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix
Installation Notes for This Release
Read the vSphere Installation and Setup documentation for step-by-step guidance on installing and configuring ESXi and vCenter Server.
After successful installation, you must perform some licensing, networking, and security configuration. For information about these configuration tasks, see the following guides in the vSphere documentation.
    vCenter Server and Host Management Documentation for licensing
    vSphere NetworkingDocumentation for networking
    vSphere Security Documentation for security and information on firewall ports
vCenter Server 5.0 supports installation on Windows 64-bit platforms only. You can upgrade from vCenter Server 4.1 to vCenter Server 5.0 on the same system if it is 64 bit. If you have VMware VirtualCenter Server 2.5 or vCenter Server 4.0 on 32-bit systems installed, see the vSphere Upgrade documentation for instructions on installing vCenter Server on a 64-bit operating system and preserving your VirtualCenter database.
vCenter Server 5.0 includes Management Information Base (MIB) files related to vCenter Server. You can download MIB files related to ESXi from the VMware Web site at http://www.vmware.com/download/vsphere/drivers_tools.html.
Upgrades for This Release
For instructions about how to upgrade vCenter Server and ESXi hosts, see the vSphere Upgrade documentation.
vSphere 5.0 supports the following upgrade scenarios:
    You can perform in-place upgrades on 64-bit systems from vCenter Server 4.x to vCenter Server 5.0.
    You cannot upgrade an instance of vCenter Server 4.0.x that is running on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
    You can upgrade VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 6 and later and vCenter Server 4.x to vCenter Server 5.0 by installing vCenter Server 5.0 on a new 64-bit operating system and migrating the existing database.
    This upgrade method makes it possible to upgrade from a 32-bit system to a 64-bit system.
    vCenter Server 5.0 can manage ESXi 5.0 hosts in the same cluster with ESX/ESXi 4.x and ESX/ESXi 3.5 hosts. It can also manage ESX/ESXi 3.5 hosts in the same cluster with ESX/ESXi 4.x hosts. vCenter Server 5.0 cannot manage ESX 2.x or 3.0.x hosts.
Test Releases of vSphere 5.0
Upgrades from the vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1 Release Candidate release to vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1 is not supported. Uninstall vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1 Release Candidate, and perform fresh installations of vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1. If you were testing Release Candidate versions of vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1, VMware recommends that you recreate data you want to preserve from those setups on vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1.
Open Source Components for VMware vSphere
The copyright statements and licenses applicable to the open source software components distributed in vSphere 5.0 are available at http://www.vmware.com/download/vsphere/open_source.html, on the Open Source tab. You can also download the source files for any GPL, LGPL, or other similar licenses that require the source code or modifications to source code to be made available for the most recent generally available release of vSphere.
Product Support Notices
VMware vSphere 5.0 is the last release for the following management features and platforms. VMware continues to provide technical support for these features and platforms through the end of their support lifecycles.
    VMware Toolbox: vSphere 5.0 is the last release to include support for the VMware Tools graphical user interface, VMware Toolbox. VMware will continue to update and support the Toolbox command-line interface (CLI) to perform all VMware Tools functions.
    VMI Paravirtualization: vSphere 4.1 was the last release to support the VMI guest operating system paravirtualization interface. For information about migrating virtual machines that are enabled for VMI so that they can run on later vSphere releases, see Knowledge Base article 1013842.
    Windows Guest Operating System Customization: vSphere 5.0 is the last release to support customization for Windows 2000 guest operating systems. VMware continues to support customization for newer versions of Windows guests.
    VMCI Sockets: vSphere 5.0 is the last major release to support using Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) sockets to communicate between virtual machines. Use of VMCI sockets to communicate between ESXi and virtual machines continues to be supported.
    Prebuilt modules for Unsupported Linux Guests: vSphere 5.0 is the last release to ship prebuilt modules (PBMs) for unsupported Linux guest operating systems. To use an unsupported Linux guest, you must compile Linux kernel modules from source code during VMware Tools installation.
    Tape drives: VMware does not support tape drives that are connected to ESX/ESXi hosts. For additional information, see Knowledge Base article 1016407.
    vSphere 5.0 and its subsequent update and patch releases are the last vSphere versions to support VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 and VMware Virtual Center 2.5: Future versions of vSphere, which includes VMware ESXi, VMware vCenter Server, VMware vSphere Client and VMware vCenter extensions and plug-ins, such as vCenter Update Manager, will not operate with VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 or VMware Virtual Center 2.5. VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 and VMware Virtual Center 2.5 will continue to be supported until their originally published end-of-support dates.

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