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License
There’s been a lot of hoopla made over how will VMware charge for vSphere licenses. Here’s a look at what you’re buying.
Relationship Map
After the in-place upgrade of two vSphere 4.1 ESX hosts to vSphere 5.0 and ESXi, here is the relationship map view of our infrastructure.
Syslog
vCenter 5 is more talkative about configuration issues. In this case one of the ESXi hosts wasn’t configured to send events to the syslog server.
VMFS-3 to VMFS-5
There’s a big change in the file system that comes with vSphere 5. Much of the block sizing headaches are gone. And the file system can be updated with VMs online.
VMFS5 part 2
VMFS-5 is not supported by hosts with an ESX version older than 5.0.
Familiar Welcome
A familiar welcome screen with a new twist; it will be possible to use a Linux-based vCenter appliance to manage the vSphere 5.0 environment.
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eWEEK Labs is using the final vSphere 5.0 code in the lab today. While there isn’t a “general availability” date that I can discuss, I can show you what’s happening during our upgrade. To begin, I updated two physical hosts (an HP DL360 G6 and an HP DL380 G6) that had been running vSphere 4.1. I also added a third server, an Acer AR380 F1 on which I installed vSphere 5.0 from scratch. After upgrading and installing vSphere 5.0 ESXi on the hosts systems, we then upgraded our shared storage from VMFS-3 to VMFS-5.