VMware 3.5 reviewed

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VMware Infrastructure 3 is a hard act to follow. When VI3 was released, it not only set the bar for all virtualization solutions to follow, but was so polished that many shops put it into production immediately, with no ill effects.

This week's release of VMware Infrastructure 3.5 is intended to continue the trend of stable, function-rich releases from the leader in virtualization. Based on what I've seen in the beta code I've been testing, it'll be a close call.

I've been running VI3.5 in the lab for weeks now, using the code provided from VMware Inc.'s beta program. This includes the base products ESX Server 3.5, VirtualCenter 2.5 and the management client, as well as new features such as live storage migration and distributed power management. It also includes a bevy of new add-ons -- for example, an automated patch manager and a tool for capacity planning and physical-to-virtual (P2V) migration.

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Get Vyatta Virtual Appliance, now VMware certified!

We all know Vyatta, don't we?

Vyatta, the leader in Linux-based networking, today announced that its open-source networking software has received VMware Virtual Appliance Certification, thereby providing customers with a solution that has been optimized for a production-ready VMware environment. The company also announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Program. As a member of TAP, Vyatta will offer its solutions via the TAP program website. With the Vyatta virtual appliance for VMware environments, organizations can now include Vyatta’s router, firewall and VPN functions as part of their virtualized infrastructure.

Vyatta combines enterprise-class routing and security capabilities into an integrated, reliable and commercially supported software solution, delivering twice the performance of proprietary network solutions at half the price. Running Vyatta software as virtual appliances gives customers many more options for scaling their data centers and cons…

3PAR adds native LDAP support to simplify administration

3PAR®, the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today native support for lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP). Support for LDAP enables centralized user authentication and authorization using a standard protocol for managing access to IT resources. With 3PAR’s support for LDAP, customers are able to now integrate 3PAR Utility Storage--a simple, cost-efficient, and massively scalable storage platform—with standard, open enterprise directory services. The result is simplified security administration with centralized access control and identity management.

“3PAR Utility Storage already provides us with a reliable, shared, and easy-to-use consolidated storage platform,” said Burzin Engineer, Vice President of Infrastructure Services at Shopzilla. "Now, with 3PAR support for LDAP, managing security commonly--across all our resources, including storage--is also simple and efficient.”

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This one is sold on to VMware ;-)

VMware Infrastructure 3 is a hard act to follow. When VI3 was released, it not only set the bar for all virtualization solutions to follow, but was so polished that many shops put it into production immediately, with no ill effects.

This week's release of VMware Infrastructure 3.5 is intended to continue the trend of stable, function-rich releases from the leader in virtualization. Based on what I've seen in the beta code I've been testing, it'll be a close call.

I've been running VI3.5 in the lab for weeks now, using the code provided from VMware Inc.'s beta program. This includes the base products ESX Server 3.5, VirtualCenter 2.5 and the management client, as well as new features such as live storage migration and distributed power management. It also includes a bevy of new add-ons -- for example, an automated patch manager and a tool for capacity planning and physical-to-virtual (P2V) migration.

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