Its coming…VI4

September 12, 2008 Alan ESX/ESXi, VI4, VMware, 0

Looks like VI4 is on the horizon and coming soon, there is a beta out there at the moment for a select few, some new features include:

64bit kernel and console operating system (COS)
clustered VirtualCenter Servers
ESX hosts profile management
cross-hosts virtual networking
8-way virtual SMP
virtual machines fault tolerance across multiple hosts (the famous Continuous Availability presented last year)
VMs and media library
alarms on physical hardware faults
access control on storage resources
configuration change tracking
full support for SATA local storage