VMware has released the new version of VI3, and it has 3 notable new features.
1. Storage Vmotion: This allows you to move a Virtual Machine's disk file from one storage location to another while the machine is running, much like standard vmotion moves VM state from one host to another. This means if you have a SAN you want to take down for maintenance, you can move all VMs off of it to another SAN.
2. Update Manager: You can now update ESX hosts and Virtual Machines alike with the latest patches. This is done using the VI3 client through Virtual Center
3. Guided Consolidation: Instead of migrating machines using 3rd party tools or otherwise manually with the VMware provided tools, you can now locate all supported physical hosts in your environment, size them up as far as memory and CPU, and validate them as candidates for migration to VMware. You can then import them into a VM all from the VI3 client/Virtual Center.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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