vSphere Launch Screen Saver:

Get it here!

VMware vSphere Podcasts:

www.ntpro.nl has a very nice list of podcasts I think you will want to hear.

What's New in VMware vSphere Part 1: Overview

What's New in VMware vSphere Part 2: vSphere Editions

What's New in VMware vSphere Part 3: Platform Efficiency and Performance

What's New in VMware vSphere Part 4: Hardware and Power Efficiency

What's New in VMware vSphere Part 5: Operational Efficiency and Network Management

What's New in VMware vSphere Part 6: Control of Application Availability

What's New in VMware vSphere Part 7: Control of Application Security

What's New in VMware vSphere Part 8: Control of Application SLAs

VMware vSphere 4 Live Event News today!

WOW. What an exciting day and lots of blogging going on as those of us VMware professionals have been doing Virtualization for over 9 years. We welcome those of you just getting started!

Here are some links summarizing many announcements today. It appears vSphere will be available for order May 21, 2009.

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/04/21/vsphere-linkage/
http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=1199
vpc certification news: http://www.van-lieshout.com/2009/03/new-vmware-certifications/

Pricing:

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vsphere-launch.html
http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/overview.html

VMware Forums and training material:
http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsphere
http://www.vmware.com/a/webcasts/index/program/179617

VMware Upgrade Center:
http://vmware.com/products/vsphere/upgrade-center/licensing.html

Vmotion Compatibility Chart:

Very nice chart complied by Dell on the different processors and Vmotion Compatibility.

I originally learned about this from vmetc.com.

Download the chart!

Hyper-V Real-World Technet Suggestions:

Trying not to get into all the bashing back and forth..but I think you might find Microsoft's own documents revealing.

http://vinternals.com/2009/04/microsoft-myths-and-realities/

VMware ESX Networking/Vswitch Explained:

Some really good articles covering how all the networking works inside of ESX. '
Really good reading for review or for those new to ESX and virtual worlds! Also a new and great blog site http://kensvirtualreality.wordpress.com/.

http://kensvirtualreality.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/the-great-vswitch-debate-part-1

http://kensvirtualreality.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/the-great-vswitch-debate-part-2

http://kensvirtualreality.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/the-great-vswitch-debate-part-3

VMware licenses cover up to 6 cores per Socket:

Just saw this original article searchvirtualization.com.

And VMware's official announcement.

How does VMware license its products for dual- quad- and hexa-core systems?

VMware licenses its server products on a per processor basis. As of the Effective Date referenced above, processor is defined as a single physical chip that contains no more than six processor cores.

vSphere (ESX 4) Launch set for April 21:



Searchvirtualization is reporting the launch of the next game changing revolution in Virtualization by VMware is scheduled for April 21.



I am very excited about the features in this next release and have been involved with the beta of the product, but not commented due to NDA rules.


The article seems to indicate many are not aware of the new features. If you are in that boat I can't stress the importance of attending VMworld and your local VMware User Groups to keep up on all the news.


This new release is guaranteed to rock the virtualization industry!