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The next Generation of VMware VI is about to be released and for all VMware partners there is a 50% discount on the What´s new course until June 30th.

See attached PDF for contents.

I have signed up for the course next month, I will post feedback as soon as I have completed the course.

Today we have the big announcement from VMware for the official launch of vSphere 4: http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vsphere-launch.html


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ESX 3.5 U4

VMware Infrastructure 3 Release Notes
Notes:
  1. Not all combinations of VirtualCenter and ESX Server versions are
    supported and not all of these highlighted features are available
    unless you are using VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 4 with ESX Server 3.5
    Update 4. See the ESX Server, VirtualCenter, and VMware Infrastructure Client Compatibility Matrixes for more information on compatibility.
  2. This version of ESX Server requires a VMware Tools upgrade.Expanded Support for Enhanced vmxnet Adapter —
    This version of ESX Server includes an updated version of the VMXNET
    driver (VMXNET enhanced) for the following guest operating systems:
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (64-bit)
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
  • Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003
  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional (32-bit)The new VMXNET version improves virtual machine networking performance and requires VMware tools upgrade.
    Newly Supported Guest Operating Systems — Support for the following guest operating systems has been added specifically for this release:
    For more complete information about supported guests included in
    this release, see the Guest Operating System Installation Guide: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/GuestOS_guide.pdf.
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (32-bit and 64-bit).
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (32-bit and 64-bit).
  • Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition and Server Edition (32-bit and 64-bit).
  • Windows Preinstallation Environment 2.0 (32-bit and 64-bit).Furthermore, pre-built kernel modules (PBMs) were added in this release for the following guests:
  • Ubuntu 8.10
  • Ubuntu 8.04.2
Other newly supported devices to check out include:

  • management agents
  • SAS and SATA controllers
  • Network Cards
  • Onboard Management Processors
  • Storage Arrays

ESXi 3.5 U4

ESXi 3.5 U4 mirrors all enhancements found in ESX 3.5 U4, but here is the paragraph on PXE booting from the new ESXi Release Notes:


PXE Booting Experimental Support — ESX Server 3i version 3.5 Update 4 Installable adds experimental support for PXE booting. For more information see Installing VMware ESX Server 3i Version 3.5 Update 4 Using PXE Booting (KB 1008971).

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I am just finishing off the migration of all of my ESX servers from 2.5 and 3.0.1 to ESX 3.5 Update 3. I have changed the storage design and introduced DRS and HA clusters, configured VMotion for every server and created one single Datastore for ISOs and Templates (before there was no control of the amount of space being used by templates and ISOs)
I have seen templates (or so called templates) with a C:\ drive of 6GB and 2 or 3 empty disks with anything up to 100GB assigned!! It’s crazy wasting all that valuable SAN.
So now with my nice new clean environment and with all 32 ESX servers updated and the possibility to move maintenance hours to a move reasonable time of the day (Thanks to VMotion and storage VMotion) I am faced with the next project of virtualizing at leats 400 servers more and expanding the virtual CPD to include SRM and high availability I am asking questions such as when is ESX 4 coming out, when will I finally be able to avail of VMware FT?
What new features can I expect to find with vSphere or VI4 (we have all heard about Surface Optics Corporation and their claim of trademark on the vSphere name)
One suggestion that I have is to please, please sort out support for USB devices, I would love to be able to plug my usb key into my ESX and access the contents via a VM without the need for 3rd party applications.
So far we have the following information available related to products due to be released in 2009:


… Please hurry up VMware.. we want VI4 now ;)

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