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Here are some important blog posts we published. We'll now use ESX & ESXi just to refer to the two different architectures.

ESXi (free version) now called 'VMware vSphere Hypervisor'.

Essentials is now list priced at $495/6 processes.

Some background on SMB use of virtualization вЂ“ contrary to what you might think, small businesses actually often make use of our 'enterprise-grade' virtualization feature.

VMware Introduces Enhanced Virtualization Offerings for Small and Midsize Businesses.

Teases the new Essentials pricing (see the next release).

Talks about bringing over the Ionix acquisitions to new branding and support from VMware.

Talks about new cloud-based (per-VM) licensing models that we're introducing for several of our vCenter management products.

Goes over the big new features - see also Steve's blog post (below).

Introduces the concept that vSphere 4.1 is a platform to build cloud infrastructures.

VMware Advances Foundation for Cloud Computing With VMware vSphere 4.1 and Expanded Virtualization Management Portfolio.

Here are the highlights for the two releases that came out July 13: (Updated 7/13 with press releases, blog posts) The Press ReleasesДЄt VMware, our press releases are very readable and actually worth checking out. Here's an initial overview of what's new and what's changed. VSphere 4.We've very pleased to announce the availability of VMware vSphere 4.1 and several other products today. You can use the data migration tool to migrate the vCenter Server configuration from the 32-bit system to the 64-bit system.

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You can also upgrade from VirtualCenter Server 2.5 or vCenter Server 4.0 on 32-bit systems to vCenter Server 4.1 on a 64-bit system by installing vCenter Server 4.1 on a 64-bit system and keeping the database from the VirtualCenter Server 2.5 or vCenter Server 4.0 system. The installer informs you that an earlier version of vCenter Server is on the computer and will be upgraded. To upgrade, confirm that your database is supported with vCenter Server 4.1, and back up your supported database, SSL certificates, and vCenter Server configuration. You can upgrade from vCenter Server 4.0 to vCenter Server 4.1 on the same system if it is 64 bit. VCenter Server 4.1 must be installed on a 64-bit system.

HereвЂ™s the info from the release notes for reference: See the vSphere Resource Management Guide.ДЄnother thing I noticed in the release notes is that vCenter Server 4.1 must be 64-bit, which I know for a lot of our customers might mean a migration of their existing vCenter database from a 32-bit installation to a 64-bit one. Slower than memory, but much faster than disk, compressed memory improves the performance of virtual machines when memory is under contention, because less virtual memory is swapped to disk. Compressed memory is a new level of the memory hierarchy, between RAM and disk.

HereвЂ™s the snippet from the WhatвЂ™s New link about this feature: ItвЂ™s an additional feature that complements Memory Transparent Page Sharing that ESX/vSphere has done for a long time. IвЂ™ve heard for awhile that vSphere will slowly move away from the Service Console based hypervisor and it looks to be that vSphere 4.1 is definitely moving towards that direction.ДЄnother cool feature I wanted to highlight is the Memory Compression feature.

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To learn more about the ESXi architecture and how to migrate from ESX to ESXi, go to the VMware ESX to ESXi Upgrade Center.

VMware will continue to provide technical support for VMware ESX according to the VMware vSphere support policy.

VMware recommends that customers start transitioning to the ESXi architecture when deploying VMware vSphere 4.1.

Future major releases of VMware vSphere will include only the VMware ESXi architecture.

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VMware vSphere 4.1 and its subsequent update and patch releases are the last releases to include both ESX and ESXi hypervisor architectures. One thing that I thought was interesting, is this section from the whatвЂ™s new link: Please see the вЂњWhatвЂ™s NewвЂќ link below to see all the new features and enhancements.