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Systems Compatibility Guide For ESX Server 3.5 and ESX Server 3i http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi35_systems_guide.pdf Last Updated: December 3, 2008 What’s New Changes since the last edition of this guide include:

• Modified support information for Dell M905, R805. See “Dell Server Support,” on page 7.
• Modified support information for IBM LS42. See “IBM Server Support,” on page 19.

Not content to sit on its technology lead in the virtualization market, VMware Inc. has ambitious plans to push its products further onto the razor's edge. The twist, however, is that it plans to do so by turning the clock back to the days of Henry Ford, the Model-T and assembly-line manufacturing.

First views of VMware View 3 VMware View 3 was just released. (press release, product page). VMware's Rick Westrate starts us off with a good tour. Link: A New “View” of Virtual Desktop Computing | Virtual Insanity.

I had my doubts about posting this one cause it definitely breaks your support. But a quick search on google revealed that it has been posted before so if you’re gonna do it why not use “my” procedure. Again I would like to stress that this should only be done for test purposes. Mark Erica was so kind to email me this procedure that they used to replace a faulty driver. The driver would be in the next version of ESXi or probably a patch but due to the severe problems they could not wait.

Phil Koster, a systems engineer who blogs under the name "Joe, the Consultant," has an informative post up about VMware issues. His basic premise is that VMware has made VI so easy to set up, that it's easy to not know your stuff and miss a bunch of important factors, like storage, security and networking. You need to learn how this works (or at least RTM) in order to have a properly functioning VI environment. Good stuff.

One Day VMware Fusion Madness: 50% off VMware Fusion. Combine with Competitive Rebate I think Workstation is 25% off with the same code as well. Link: VMware: Team Fusion: One Day VMware Fusion Madness: 50% off VMware Fusion. Combine with Competitive Rebate. From 12:01 AM Pacific Time (well, I think it actually might be live right now) on December 1st, 2008 through 11:59 PM, 24 hours later, VMware Fusion will be on sale for 50% off, worldwide.

SpringSource, the company behind Spring, the de facto standard in enterprise Java, today announced at SpringOne Americas 2008 a new relationship with VMware that will help organizations to seamlessly develop and deploy Spring applications in VMware virtualized environments.

I didn’t even notice it this morning, but it was 05:45 when I woke up so that should be an excuse. It’s not only ESX 3.5 that needs to be patched, same goes for the 3.0.x hosts. So be sure to check out the patches section of the VMware website if you’ve still got 3.0.x running. This post originally appeared on Yellow-Bricks.com, author: Duncan Epping. Support Yellow-Bricks.com: save 10% on select VMware Products!

(InfoWorld Daily Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) VMware released on Tuesday VMware View 3, new software aimed at providing desktop virtualization, application virtualization, and management of virtual desktops in one product. VMware View is a reworking of the company's VMware Desktop Infrastructure product that adds other components to solve the problem of managing virtualized desktop environments, said Raj Mallempati, a group product manager of desktop products for VMware.