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Gonzouk
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‎09-24-2011 01:26 AM

Considering moving from ESX 4.1 to 5.0

Hello,

We have 6 hosts and we are running ESX 4.1 (VMware Datacentre) and vCentre, we have about 80 VM's across 6 Dell Equallogic SAN's.  Now I have seen version 5.0 out, but what confuses me is it is ESXi 5.0 and not ESX 5.0 why is this or is this a different product?  I thought ESXi was the free version as we use this for testing and disaster recovery.

Also are there are comarisions articles on what improvments I will see in version 5.0?

Thanks

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osha
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‎09-24-2011 01:55 AM

i hope the links here can help you:

http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/upgrade-center/licensing.html

the most important thing to note is the change in the licensing model.

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arturka
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‎09-24-2011 02:00 AM

Hi


We have 6 hosts and we are running ESX 4.1 (VMware Datacentre) and vCentre, we have about 80 VM's across 6 Dell Equallogic SAN's.  Now I have seen version 5.0 out, but what confuses me is it is ESXi 5.0 and not ESX 5.0 why is this or is this a different product?

vSphere 5 has only ESXi version, no more ESX in vSphere5

  I thought ESXi was the free version as we use this for testing and disaster recovery.

In vSphere5 you have ESXi free version as well

Also are there are comarisions articles on what improvments I will see in version 5.0?

here you go click on what's new link

http://vmwaremine.com/2011/09/22/vsphere-5-documentation/

regarding upgrade - on your place I would wait few months mre, vSphere 5 is still young product and as I see there are some bugs which users discovers during upgrade, if you have test env, do it first there if you don't have it - no rush with upgrade cause it might make more problems then benefits afterwords

VCDX77 My blog - http://vmwaremine.com
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