I’ve not had a good chance to process the entirety of the flood that has been the vSphere 5 release. Let alone think on the implications of the licensing change. So a summary post will be forth coming at some stage (maybe). Until then, here are a bunch of links that I gathered in or around the announcement. Note, some of these may be linked twice… it really is a link dump to be honest.
- http://blogs.vmware.com/rethinkit/2011/07/vmware-building-the-foundation-for-the-cloud-era-with-the-launch-of-vsphere-5-and-the-cloud-infrastr.html
- http://vmguy.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/1674
- http://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2011/07/12/virtualization-wars-episode-v-vmware-strikes-back/
- http://www.seancrookston.com/2011/07/12/vsphere-5-for-the-smb/
- http://vtexan.com/2011/07/12/really-cool-things-in-vsphere5/
- http://blogs.vmware.com/uptime/2011/07/whats-new-with-vmware-vcenter-site-recovery-manager-v50.html
- http://blog.cowger.us/?p=71
- http://corus360.com/company/blog/vmware-announces-vsphere-5-and-a-new-licensing-model/
- http://blogs.vmware.com/uptime/2011/07/vsphere-50-is-released-with-new-ha-features.html
- http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/07/14/vsphere-5-0-storage-vmotion-and-the-mirror-driver/
- http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/07/13/vsphere-5-0-profile-driven-storage-what-is-it-good-for/
- http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/07/13/vsphere-5-0-what-has-changed-for-vmfs/
- http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/07/12/whats-new-for-storage-whitepaper-and-videos/
- http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/07/12/vsphere-5-0-storage-drs-introduction/
- http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/07/12/5-is-the-magic-number-2/
- http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/07/12/live-blog-raising-the-bar-part-v/
- http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2011/07/raising-the-bar-v-vsphere-5.html
- http://blogs.vmware.com/esxi/2011/07/whats-new-with-esxi-in-vsphere-50.html
- http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-19367/TS-509279.mp3
- http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/07/new-enhanced-vsphere-50-storage-features-part-3-vaai.html
- http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2011/07/new-vsphere-50-storage-features-part-2-storage-vmotion.html
- http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/vsphere-5-licensing-with-vram-isn%E2%80%99t-that-bad-at-all/
- http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2011/07/blog-posts-related-to-vsphere-5-release.html
- http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-does-vcp3-holder-update-to-vcp5.html
- http://www.vmwarevideos.com/vmware-cto-steve-herrod-covers-new-vsphere-5-features
- http://www.vmwarevideos.com/duncan-epping-interviewed-by-david-davis-about-vsphere-5-and-his-new-book
- http://www.vmwarevideos.com/duncan-epping-interviewed-by-david-davis-about-vsphere-5-and-his-new-book
- http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2011/07/vshield-app-5-data-security-awesomesauce-and-free-to-try.html
- http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2011/07/vstorage-apis-for-array-integration-vaai-vsphere-5-edition.html
- http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2011/07/vsphere-5-apd-gets-a-new-friend-pdl.html
- http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2011/07/vm-ha-laying-a-foundation-for-today-and-tomorrow.html
- http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2011/07/vmfs-5what-you-need-to-know-in-a-nutshell.html