What's New in VMware vSphere Part 1: Overview
Learn how VMware vSphere helps IT cut capital and operational costs by over 50% for all applications while improving control over application service levels and preserving customer choice to use any hardware, OS, or application. Also learn how VMware vSphere enables cloud computing by enabling IT to build an efficient internal cloud that can be federated with external cloud infrastructures for ultimate scalability and cost savings.
What's New in VMware vSphere Part 2: vSphere Editions
VMware vSphere is available in multiple editions, including two editions specifically designed for small businesses. Listen to this podcast to learn which edition is right for your business.
What's New in VMware vSphere Part 3: Platform Efficiency and Performance
Learn about the new performance enhancements in VMware vSphere 4.0, making it the most powerful and efficient virtualization platform VMware has released to date. VMware ESX and ESXi 4.0 have been optimized for specific business-critical applications such as Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Exchange and can deliver up to 8,900 database transactions per second, 200,000 I/O operations per second, and up to 16,000 Exchange mailboxes per host.
What's New in VMware vSphere Part 4: Hardware and Power Efficiency
Learn about the new power and storage features in VMware vSphere that enable you to make more efficient use of your server and storage assets and reduce power consumption. New features include: VMware Distributed Power Management, VMware Thin Provisioning, VMware vStorage VMFS improvements such as hot extend of virtual disks, Hot Add, and Hot Plug.
What's New in VMware vSphere Part 5: Operational Efficiency and Network Management
Learn about the new networking features in VMware vSphere, including VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS), and their impact on network management, security, and operational efficiency. vDS also enables third party distributed switches such as Cisco Nexus 1000v to seamlessly plug into vSphere environments, enabling networking teams to have VM level granularity.
What's New in VMware vSphere Part 6: Control of Application Availability
Learn how to control application availability levels with new features in VMware vSphere that enable continuous availability, integrated data protection, and live migration of storage files. New features include: VMware Fault Tolerance, VMware Data Recovery, VMware Storage VMotion, and improvements in VMware High Availability .
What's New in VMware vSphere Part 7: Control of Application Security
Learn how VMware vSphere gives you better control over application security levels than possible in the physical world. New features include: VMware VMsafe, VMware vShield Zones, and new security enhancements.
What's New in VMware vSphere Part 8: Control of Application SLAs
Learn about the new features in vCenter Server 4.0 that improve virtualization management and give you increased control over your application service levels. New features include: vCenter Server Orchestrator, vCenter LinkedMode, Host Profiles, vApp, new performance diagnostic charts, reports, and alarms.
