Wednesday, 1 April 2009

VMware Release ESX 3.5/i Update 4

With the impending release of vSphere looming on the horizon, VMware have just released Update 4 for both ESX 3.5 and ESXi and includes:

  • Support for Intel Xeon 5500 series CPUS
  • Support for Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux 11, Ubuntu 8.10 and Windows PE 2.0 as guest operating systems
  • Support for new SATA Controllers
  • Support for new NICS
  • Support for new Storage Arrays
  • Enhanced VMXNET driver for Windows XP and 2003
  • Support for new management agents.
The question is when will vSphere be with us?