VMware News: Features of the new VMware ESX 4.0
Posted by mrjohn on Nov 4, 2008
VMware is already testing the beta version of the new ESX 4.0. Among the features offered are:
- 64-bit Kernel and COS: Although Virtual Machine Monitor already does, VMware carries its products completely in 64 bits;
- Virtual Center clusters: We are not referring to MSCS support for Virtual Center, but about the distributed management of the virtualized infrastructure across multiple ESXs;
- Profile management of ESX servers;
- Cross-platform virtual networking: Virtual switches may be defined in the entire infrastructure rather than in each switch, as was the case until now. Networking settings can be applied to the ENTIRE virtual infrastructure.
- SMP support for as much as 8 vCPU;
- VM fault tolerance for multiple hosts—last year’s famous Continuous Availability solution; Check out more details of FT & A video of it at VMbloggie article at:
VMware ESX 4.0 FT - Fault Tolerant - Sneak Peek
- VM and media library (ISOs and more): Provides library support for templates and virtual machines. Versioning capacity of virtual machines is also expected;
- Control of access to storage: Until now, due to license administration, access to VMFS could not be controlled. The new version supports this new feature;
- Management and monitoring of configuration changes;
- Full support for SATA, and
- Support for the new Six Core processors.
As always, the beta testers will be bound by the NDA. As a result, we will discuss each new capability as it is made public.
Thanks to J. L. Medina for inspiring this article.
