ESX 4 Feature Listing and Demo's.

Just a little something that I ran across a few days back. I hope that you like it.

This dicusses the VI 4.0 release and features. Some of the demos are really nice.

Continuous Availability:
Here

VMware Distributed Switch:
Here

Host Profile
Here

ESX4 Feature List so far:

64bit kernel and console operating system (COS)

Clustered VirtualCenter Servers - YAY .. Can't wait for this.

ESX hosts profile management

Cross-hosts virtual networking - Stateful network NICE.

8-way virtual SMP - SQL will like this a whole bunch.

Virtual machines fault tolerance across multiple hosts (the famous Continuous Availability presented last year) - This is GOING TO BE HUGE.

VMs and media library - Nice .... Been looking to dump my ISO folder in the data store :).

Alarms on physical hardware faults

Access control on storage resources - About time for this one.

Configuration change tracking - This will be hugely useful.

Full support for SATA local storage - I know a bunch of folks that have been waiting for this.