Hi
At the VMUG event I learned about a few new features that are available in ESX 3.5 & VC 2.5. Jeremy van Doorn told us about:
- Distributed Power Management (Still experimental)
- NPIV support (connect a HBA to a VM instead of an ESX host)
- VMware update manager (formerly Shavlik)
- Storage VMotion (VMotion the storage of a VM to a different location, only through command line)
- Paravirtualization possible on a per VM basis
- More RAM for a VM, up to 64GB and more RAM for the host, max 128GB
- SATA drives support (not known which drives are supported)
- Hardware page tabels for even less overhead when virtualizing memory
- 32 nodes instead of 16 in a DRS / HA cluster
- Up to 10 isolation addresses in HA
- A VM can now have a local swap file
- Cisco Discovery Protocol
- Wake On LAN for your nics
- And a very important VCB feature: restore files on VM
Apart from these items, I discovered some more nice little improvements in the interface. So the next post will be only screenshots and short comments on each new feature or button I discovered :-)