It’s all very cloak and dagger at the moment but VMware have sent out invitations to a gathering in San Francisco on July 12th. It’s believed that this will be to announce the highly anticipated ESXi 5.0 hypervisor.
It’s certain that the one big change that we know is coming will be the vSphere 5.0 stack. There will no longer be an ESX Server 5.0 hypervisor. The full ESX Server hypervisor includes the ESX Service Console, which was extracted from the ESX code base back in September 2007 to create the first embedded version of VMware’s hypervisor, ESX Server 3i.
Rumours doing the rounds include: –
Larger ESXi hypervisor: ESXi will be able to span up to 160 x64 processors (much like the RedHat rival launched last year).
Web-based: VMware is expected to move away from a Windows-based console and toward a Web-based console, good news for Linux houses.
Storage Distributed Resource Scheduling: The new vSphere stack is expected to include this feature, live migration using the VMotion feature from server node to server node and hypervisor to hypervisor based on policies that are set by administrators.
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