Yesterday VMware announced the general availability of VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1a, the firs major update since version 5.0 release.
The main improvements are:
- vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1a introduces support for the following vCenter Databases
- Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Standard ONE Edition Release 2 [11.2.0.3] – 64 bit
- Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, Standard ONE Edition Release 2 [11.2.0.3] – 32 bit
- vCenter Server Appliance Database Support: The DB2 express embedded database provided with the vCenter Server Appliance has been replaced with VMware vPostgres database. This decreases the appliance footprint and reduces the time to deploy vCenter Server further.
This release also include the following languages for VMware vSphere 5.0:
- English
- French
- German
- Japanese
- Korean
- Simplified Chinese
VMware vCenter Server 5.0 Update 1a Patch is available for download at https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/5_0.