Comments on: Not Ready for vSphere

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:24:13 +0000

On Thursday I heard a rumor at the Phoenix VMUG meeting that Storage Vmotion will be removed from vSphere 4.0 Standard and offered in vSphere 4.0 PLUS. Looks like another reason to stay on ESX 3.5.

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Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:48:34 +0000

[...] you ready for vSphere, or are you like this gentleman? It’s a tough position for VMware—many users are happy with ESX 3.5 and don’t see [...]

By: editor

editor — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:39:25 +0000

Rick,

Thanks for the comment. I asked my VMware Support Engineer when a major service release was coming out for vSphere and he said expect one at the end of October.

By: Rick Herman

Rick Herman — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:00:09 +0000

I too am waiting for update 1. Has any information been given on when that is expected?

By: Vladan

Vladan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:12:24 +0000

Well, sure there is no rush to upgrade, but when you see that your existing hardware could manage even more VMs with vSphere. And with vSphere you have the final protection and no downtime – Fault Tolerance.

Also there is ESX 3.5 U5 which can handle up to 80 vms per host…

Vladan