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vSphere 4 Update 1 Released

While the Dutch and UK bloggers sleep, VMware has released Update 1 for ESXi 4, ESX 4, and vCenter 4.

Notable improvements include:

• View 4 support
• Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 support (Support for Windows 7 was timed nicely for View 4)
• DB2 database back end support (Who requested this? Sound off, I’d like to hear your comments)
• HA cluster hosts can now support 160 VMs each in a cluster of 8 hosts or less. 9 or more hosts in an HA cluster are still limited to 40 VMs per host (This still bugs me a little. Anyone loading up a host with near 160 or more VMs?)
• Paravirtualized SCSI support has been extended to Windows 2003 and 2008 boot drives
• vDS performance improvement (Important if creating VMkernel portgroups on vDS for NAS storage)
• vCPUs per core limit increased from 20 to 25 (”Lorraine – You are my density…”)
• Intel Xeon 3400 series CPU support
• Improved support for Microsoft Clustering (Yes, more changes to the wonderful MS clustering document)
• Rumors of comma separators in report/graph numbers (This could be my favorite new feature)
• Many resolved issues

Last but not least, we can still reboot our ESX 4 hosts with CTRL + ALT + DEL at the console

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vSphere 4 Update 1 Released

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