Major: Virtual Desktop Manager 2.0 012408

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Major Virtual Desktop Manager 2.0 (01/24/08)

• VMware VDM 2 is the Connection Broker for VMware
  VDI
• Background
• Based on Propero technologies acquired by VMware
  in April 2007
• Replaces VDM 1.1 PSO offering
• VMware boxed product, fully supported, production
  ready
• Overview
• Connects users to virtual desktops
• Manages authentication and entitlements
• Integrated with VirtualCenter to manage VI3
  platform
• Robust and scalable for the Enterprise, yet
• Easy to deploy and administer in smaller
  environments
• Fully-featured, enterprise-class connection
  broker.

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Major VMware Lifecycle Manager 1.0 (03/31/08)

• Automate, manage, and control the life of virtual
  machines
• Track and report on deployed virtual machines
• Provide process and policies for
• How virtual machines are created
• How virtual machines are deployed
• How virtual machines are changed
• How virtual machines are retired

Create
Change
Deploy
Key benefits Delivers a best practice mechanism
for tracking, controlling, and approving virtual
machine use Eliminates manual and repetitive
tasks through automation Reduces costs by
leveraging existing tools already in use
(VirtualCenter, CMDB, etc.) Prevents virtual
machine sprawl and ensures compliance with
corporate IT standards and policies
Retire
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Minor ESX 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5- (12/11/07)

• Whats new?
• With this release of VMware Infrastructure 3,
  VMware innovations reinforce three driving
  factors of virtualization adoption that continue
  to make VMware Infrastructure the virtualization
  platform of choice for datacenters of all sizes
  and across all industries

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Three driving factors

• 1. Effective Datacenter Management
• Guided Consolidation
• VMware Converter Enterprise integration
• VMware Distributed Power Management
  (experimental)
• 2. Mainframe-class Reliability and Availability
• VMware Storage VMotion
• VMware Update Manager
• VMware High Availability enhancements
• VMware VMotion with local swap files
• VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) enhancements
• 3. Platform for any Operating System,
  Application, or Hardware
• ESX Server host support for up to 32 logical
  processors and 256MBs of RAM
• Paravirtualized guest operating system support
  with VMI 3.0
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet support
• Large page size, Enhanced VMXNET, TCP
  Segmentation Offload (TSO), Jumbo frames
• Round-robin load balancing (experimental)

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Minor ESXi 3.5 (12/11/07)
Next generation, thin hypervisor integrated in
server systems

• Thin architecture
• Compact, 32MB footprint
• Unparalleled security, reliability, and
  manageability
• Only OS-independent design focused on
  virtualization
• Integrated in server systems
• Hardware is certified and ready-to-run
• No moving parts enables disk-less servers
• Intuitive start up experience that dramatically
  reduces deployment time
• Standards-based management of the underlying
  hardware

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Other Minor Launches

• Capacity Planner 2.6 (12/7/07)
• VMware Infrastructure SDK 2.5 (12/10/07)
• VMware Guest SDK 3.5 (12/10/07)
• Remote CLI for ESX Server 3i (12/10/07)
• VMware Infrastructure Perl Toolkit 1.5
  (1/17/08)

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Updates and Maintenance Releases

• ESX 3.5 Update 1 (4/10/08)
• VirtualCenter 2.5 Update 1 (4/10/08)
• Lab Manager 2.5.1 GA Q407 (12/4/07)
• Lab Manager 2.5.2 GA Q108 (1/24/08)
• Fusion 1.1.1 GA Q108 (1/24/08)
• ACE 2.0.3 GA Q108 (3/14/08)
• Player 2.0.3 GA Q108 (3/14/08)
• Workstation 6.0.3 for Windows/Linux (3/14/08)

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Current Public Beta programs

• VMware ACE 2.5
• VMware Fusion 2.0
• VMware Project North Star (Thinstall)
• VMware Server
• VMware Stage Manager
• VI Toolkit (for Windows)
• VMware Workstation 6.5