Main thing to say that is this is a just an announcement. There’s nothing new dowload and install yet. In fact some of these products (as far as I am aware yet) aren’t even on a private beta yet, never mind a public beta. Some of this was announced at VMworld in th keynotes. I’ll focus on what’s new:

• 128GB of RAM for ESX 3.5
• 64GB of RAM for Virtual Machines
• Suport for Transparent Paravirtualization support for paravirtualizated enabled Linux 2.6.21 kernels
• Support for MMU – Memory Management Unit – support for memory page tables handled by the new CPUs
• Support for NPIV – N-Port ID Virtualization – presenting a WWN to a VM
• Support for TCP Segment Offload and jumbo frames
• Suport for local SATA Drives
• Support for 10GigE
• Storage VMotion – Moving VMs files around whilst the VM is running
• Protect against operating system failures with virtual machine failure monitoring (experimental) in VMware HA. (Continuious HA???)
• One-step restore of VMs using VMware Convertor/VirtualCenter
• Distributed Power Management (Power down ESX hosts when you don’t need them – scarey or what!)
• VMware Update Manager – “Windows Update” for ESX Hosts & the Vi Client and integrated with DRS
• Consolidation Management – Mini-Capcity Planner and VMware Convertor integrated with VirtualCenter
• Site Recovery Manager
• ESX3i

Links:

Offical Press Release:

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/esx_35.html
http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/features.html
http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/whatsnew.html

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