Thought I would write this post to let people know about VMware’s plans to drop ESX. It has been in the pipeline for quite some time, but I know it is still a surprise to some people. This is an extract from the VMware Blog Site that clarifies the end of ESX. “ESX 4.1 is the last ESX! What do i do now?” With the release of VMware vSphere 4.1, we announced that 4.1 will be the last vSphere version to support both the ESX and ESXi hypervisor architectures. Going forward customers will be able to deploy vSphere only using ESXi. Although the infrastructure management tasks once performed by the Service Console are now handled by tasks running under the VMkernel, some ESX users may still depend on the custom scripts, third-party products, or operational procedures that use the Service Console. This means that upgrading to vSphere 4.1 is the […]
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Service Manager 9.0 RP3 is now available
Yesterday saw the release of Service Manager 9.0 RP3. Product Page: http://www.vmware.com/support/product-support/service-manager/index.html Downloads Page: http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_service_manager/9_0 Some of you may be wondering what is VMware Service Manager, here is a quick extract from the product page: VMware Service Manager develops a 100% web architected solution that automates IT Service Management processes in enterprise organizations.VMware Service Manager is independently verified to the highest level of ITIL compatibility for Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Release Management, Configuration Management, Service Level Management and Availability Management.