Products information
- Official web site: VMware vSphere 5 (now upgraded to 5.1)
- Product official announce: Jul, 12 2011
- Product released: Aug,25 2011
- General Availability of VMware vSphere 5.0 Update 1
- Upgrade paths to vSphere 5
Editions and licenses
No changes in vCenter Server editions (still Essential, Foundation and Standard) and licenses (still per instance); note that the new VMware vCenter Server Virtual Appliance is not a new edition but just another way to deploy vCenter. More changes in ESXi both in the editions (the Advanced edition has been removed) and in licensing, with the new concept of vRAM Entitlement.
Some new features
- What’s in and what’s out
- vSphere 5 vRAM Entitlement (suppressed!)
- vCenter Server Virtual Appliance
- vSphere Web Client
- VMware HA 5 and advanced options
- vStorage API
- ESXi 5 firewall
- Virtual Machine Hardware Version 8
- OS X on vSphere 5
- New certifications: VCP5
What’s new links
- Official documents: What’s New in VMware vSphere 5? and What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.0
- The 140 new features of vSphere 5: vSphere 5.0 Features and Duncan’s 50 out of 140 vSphere 5 Features Challenge
- What’s New Duncan’s Collection
- What’s New in VMware vSphere 5 – Technical Whitepapers
- VMware vSphere 5 links
