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VMware Infrastructure 3 Hits The Street: Page 2 of 3

The release contains ESX Serv 3.5, VirtCenter 2.5, eases management and makes Linux happy.
JOE HERNICK
December 11, 2007
  • Storage Vmotion yields minimal downtime, dynamic shifting of storage allocation via live migration of virtual machine disks. VM sysadmins everywhere are raising a glass over this one. We're all keeping our fingers crossed that this works as advertised reducing planned outages (and late-night time away from our families.)
  • Improved management of I/O loads thanks to TCP segmentation offload should make terminal services platforms (MS, Citrix) happy.
  • Guided Consolidation wizards to help smaller shops with the P to V move. This is a solid strategy for VMware to head downmarket, addressing the anxiety and lack of VW skills outside the Fortune 1000 world.
  • Paravirtualization support for Linux (Xen competition, anyone?)
  • Update Manager promises to improve production patching of ESX hosts and VMs, including off-line hosts.

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