ESX 3.5 / VirtualCenter 2.5 released

The much anticipated new versions of VMware ESX Server, VVirtual Center and Consolidated Backup as now been made available for download by VMware.

The new build versions are:

• VMware ESX Server - Latest Version: 3.5 | 12/10/2007 | Build: 64607
• VMware VirtualCenter - Latest Version: 2.5 | 12/10/2007 | Build: 64201
• VMware Consolidated Backup - Latest Version: 1.1 | 12/10/2007 | Build: 64559

New features and improvements include

• Storage VMotion
• Update Manager
• Support for 200 hosts and 2000 virtual machines
• Support for 128GB RAM per host and for 64GB RAM per virtual machine
• Server consolidation advisor
• Distributed Power Management (DPM)
• Guest OS disaster recovery capability
• Provisioning across datacenters objects
• Support for SATA storage devices
• Support for VCB over iSCSI SANs
• Support for 10Gbit Ethernet network cards
• Support for TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) network cards
• Support for Jumbo Frames

Check out the release notes for more details and the updated VI feature list

I can't wait to get my infrastructure updated, and I'm really looking forward to playing with the new Update Manager and VCB over iSCSI

Posted by Christian Mohn aka h0bbel