From its blog, Steve Herrod, VP of Research & Development at VMware, announced the massive public beta 2 wave (2.700 testers) for ESX Server 3.0 and VirtualCenter 2.0.
Highly expected new features are finally officially disclosed:
ESX Server Guest OSes
- 4-way Virtual SMP support
- 16GB Ram support
- 64bit experimental support
- Solaris 10 x86 experimental support
ESX Server Host OS
- iSCSI support
- NFS support
VirtualCenter
- Integrated ESX Server management
- Network diagram availability
- Centralized management model
- Improved authorization system
- Distributed Availability Services (DAS)
- Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS)
- Microsoft Windows guest OSes agentless backup
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