vSphere Announced!

Hi folks, so unless you have been hiding under a rock you know that VMware's vSphere product has been announced! vSphere is the successor to VMware ESX and it's bigger and better than ever!



Some of the cool features announced are:

• Thin Provisioning


• VMSafe


• vShield


• vNetwork


• More RAM per VM


• More CPUs per VM

Just to name a few. We now also have the in-built ability to backup virtual machines easily right from VMware without having to go to third party products or scripting. Very cool indeed!

According to the public announcements I've heard, we should start seeing the product show up in the channel within a month. Also your product keys will start to show up in your VMware portal for those with current versions of VMware and support! I for one can't wait to upgrade! Of course just like usual make sure you take a stepped approach to the upgrade process and leave some of your servers as the old version so you have something to roll back to if you have issues.

-RP