vSphere 4 Update 2

VMware have released Update 2 versions for several datacenter products.

New features include:

ESX Server and ESXi Installable 4.0 U2 (release notes: ESX, ESXi Installable)

• Enablement of Fault Tolerance Functionality for Intel Xeon 56xx Series, Intel i3/i5 Clarkdale Series and Intel Xeon 34xx Clarkdale Series processors
• Added support for Ubuntu 10.04 guest OS

vCenter Server 4.0 U2 (release notes)

• Guest Operating System Customization Improvements - added customization support for several SLES, RHEL and Debian versions

vCenter Update Manager 4.0 U2 (release notes)

• Improved reliability of operations on hosts in low bandwidth, high latency, or lossy networks

VMware Data Recovery 1.2 (release notes)

• File Level Restore (FLR) is now available for use with Linux
• Additional information in UI about the current status of destination disks including the disk's health and the degree of space savings provided by the deduplication store's optimizations
• Information in UI about the datastore from which virtual disks are backed up