Monthly Archives: March 2008

VI 3.5 Update 1 Release Date – April 10th

Someone slipped up earlier today and posted links to ESX 3.5 Update 1, ESX 3i Update 1 and VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 1 on the VMware downloads page (there was nothing actually available for download though). Presumably that person thought the world runs on California time or something, as the links disappeared a short time later. [...]

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ESX 3i – Almost, but not quite there yet

What a contentious title for a post, however I couldn’t help but notice how many times I saw / heard “not supported in 3i” during VMworld Europe 2008, despite the significant keynote time given to IBM, HP and Dell who all duly announced you could get 3i on a USB stick with their hardware now! [...]

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VirtualCenter 2.5 Database Changes

It’s no surprise that the database schema and stored procs have undergone a significant overhaul in VC 2.5, but for me some of the kep improvements is with regards to the statistics collection levels. In VC 2.0.x the statistics collection level was a single global setting, with Level 1 being the default and VMware recommending [...]

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Hi Dennis :-)

I had the pleasure of meeting Dennis Zimmer at VMworld Europe (thanks for the introduction Roland , author of several books and the guy behind the biggest virtualisation site in Germany (no English translation for the site yet, but he assures me it’s coming – several of his books are in English however so don’t [...]

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