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Yeh think i'll be rolling back to 3.5

OriVM, What hardware are you running it on?

Not yet, I will at least wait 6 to 8 months before I upgrade my production environment. I also want vSphere to fully support VMware view. I am thinking to do a fresh install rather than upgrade – I just had better luck with fresh installs for major releases.

HP ML115 G5 quad core opteron 8Gb ram, Sata raid(not working anymore)

Is the sata on a sas backplate or straight sata? what raid card?

motherboard ... which DID work in 3.5

Since that specific computer isnt in the HCL I can understand why it wont work with the Sata, However there are sata cards that will perform well with it like the SiL 3114 will add in and assist you. And cheap on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/4-Port-SATA-To-PCI-Raid-Controller-Card-Adapter-SIL3114_W0QQitemZ370204701531QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090522?IMSfp=TL090522154002r16115

Just remember what ESXi 3.5 was like.

Update 1 fixed a number of major issues. Shortly after Update 2 fixed so many major issues that you'd read the changenotes and wonder how people running the initial release ever kept a server alive. Update 3 finally got stable HA working. This is the nature of rewritten products. Even if I can bring a cluster online, I would hate the thought of having to organise five patch/reboot cycles in the next two months as major updates come out.

Development environment has been upgraded however.

Ha Ha Ha you have just written the history of Microsoft, and it goes on to this day. I like it.

For now I just did a clean install on one of my test rigs, a 680i MB with Quad-Core 6600 running on it. Interesting thing is that ESX 3.5 wouldn't recognize the onboard SATA on my other test machine and I needed to use an Adaptec Sil3512a chip SATA card make it functional. Now, 4.0 has no problem with that and boots right off the MB which for a test machine is nice.

Like everyone I'm not eager to rush into production machines. We already have 2008 Servers running on ESX and they're not bug free yet so no need to add another layer of possible instability to the mix. I do like some of the new features and rearranging of menus but otherwise haven't been running it long enough to make a reasonable judgement.

What issues do you have with 2008 Server?

For 2008 we've had random and seemingly more frequent lockups when the server is under heavy I/O (like during backups) that we didn't have with 2003 server. I hesitate to actually blame 2008 though because we have anything but a "controlled test environment". Its a mix of clean installs, P2V conversions and updates 1-4 so something could easily have gotten broken along the way.

For my tests with ESX 4.0 I'm only testing out 2008 and some virtual appliances first. So far I like ntop for traffic monitoring.

I have upgraded ESX cluster with test VM's to vSphere GA immediately. And I think I'm going to upgrade production cluster in a month.

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I'm currently building two new clusters that needs to be up and running the next couple of weeks so there's little time to even evaluate vSphere right now. There are lots of features I want but too much uncharted territory as well, so we'll probably be evaulating vSphere during the fall and maybe upgrade sometime this winter.