The long rumored minor update for VMware Infrastructure 3 is finally in shipment: the company Vice President of Technology Development, Steve Herrod, published on his corporate blog a long introduction to benefits of new 64bits support for several guest OSes:
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Standard and Enterprise Server R2)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 64-bit (UP7, UP8)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit (UP2, UP3)
- SuSE Linux Server (SLES) 10 64-bit
- Sun Solaris 10 (U2)
As already reported in several previous posts this new build (32039 for ESX Server, 32042 for VirtualCenter) also introduces no downtime migration from ESX Server 2.x and new ESX Server 3.0.1.