VMware ESX 3.5 Update 1 and VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 1

Last week, VMware released an update to its VMware Infrastructure suite of products and there a few changes worth noting:

- Enhanced hardware monitoring for VMware ESXi

- Support for VMware High Availability (HA) for VMware ESXi

- Support for Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS) for both VMware ESX and
VMware ESXi, including support for Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) with
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The enhanced monitoring and alerting for VMware ESXi includes new Common Information Model (CIM) providers for CPU, system memory, fan, power supply, and other sensors. This hardware health information can be consumed by VMware VirtualCenter and by third-party management products.

This further addresses a common question about VMware ESXi: “How can I manage ESXi without a Service Console?” The answer: standards-based protocols and open interfaces. Migrating to these remote management tools enables us to completely free the hypervisor from the operating system, leaving behind a small, 32 MB kernel. This eliminates common security vulnerabilities found in general purpose operating systems while making the hypervisor extremely easy to deploy.

Read on for the details.

VMWare eLearning Videos bei Youtube

VMWare hat bei youtube.com eine eigene Seite veröffentlicht, auf der einige sehr interessante eLearning Videos eingebunden sind.
Momentan handelt es sich zwar noch um das Produkt VMWare Server 1.0 aber weitere VMWare Produkte sollen folgen.

Die eLearning Videos findet ihr hier: http://youtube.com/VMwareELearning