From our recently-launched VI Team Blog. Link: VMware ESX 3.5 Update 1 and VMware VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 1 | VI Team Blog.
Last week, VMware released an update to its VMware Infrastructure suite of products and there a few changes worth noting:
– Enhanced hardware monitoring for VMware ESXi
– Support for VMware High Availability (HA) for VMware ESXi
– Support
for Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS) for both VMware ESX and VMware
ESXi, including support for Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) with
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The
enhanced monitoring and alerting for VMware ESXi includes new Common
Information Model (CIM) providers for CPU, system memory, fan, power
supply, and other sensors. This hardware health information can be consumed by VMware VirtualCenter and by third-party management products.
This further addresses a common question about VMware ESXi: “How can I manage ESXi without a Service Console?” The answer: standards-based protocols and open interfaces. Migrating
to these remote management tools enables us to completely free the
hypervisor from the operating system, leaving behind a small, 32 MB
kernel. This eliminates common security
vulnerabilities found in general purpose operating systems while making
the hypervisor extremely easy to deploy.
Read on for the details.
