Is It getting harder and harder to keep track of all VMware’s Product Launches, upgrades, hotfixes and new releases these days, right ?
Luckily VMware launched
a new program called VMware Software Manager, that can help you track which is
the most recent release of it’s products and more, download them to your
compute while checking the integrity of them, nice…. Even nicer is that it’s
free.
It does not have a
lot of pre-requisites, just a Windows 64bit O.S. version (yes, this first
release is just Windows aware). You can check all the details on the User's Guide.
Talking abou the
installation, it’s pretty simple, so simple that wont cover here, the only
thing that mention to comment is that during installation it will ask you for
the depot location, that’s where your downloads will be copied to.
Don’t worry, it's possible to change the depot location later !!!
On the taskbar
there’s an icon for Software Manager
- Right Click on it and
select, Settings and then Set Download Location
To start with you
will need to login with your MyVMware Account
Then, you can browser
to the available products.
Another caveat here,
not all products are available, they will be added soon, so far we do have.
VMware vCloud Suite –
6.0, 5.8 and 5.5
VMware vSphere with Operations Manager – 6.0 and 5.5
VMware vSphere – 6.0,
5.5 and 5.1
Once you find the one
you need just hit the download button and go grab a cup of coffee.
Something to mention
is that the support of Software Manager is handle by the community on this
initial phase.
If you have a
problem, drop us a question, I’m sure you will be answered before this cup of
coffee get cold ; )
Go ahead, download
VMware Software Manager and give it a try.
