Virtualization has gained a prominent place in recent years. Well-known names include Xen and VMware. The latter company has with its vSphere 4 a solid platform. An important part of that platform is VMware ESX, which is also available as a bare metal hypervisor under the name VMware ESXi. For more information, we refer you to this page. The developers have released a new version with this time 4.1 update 1 build 348481 as the version designation. The list of innovations for ESX and ESXi looks like this:
What’s New
The following information describes some of the enhancements available in this release of VMware ESX(i):
- Enablement of Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) — ESXi 4.1 Update 1 can be configured to boot with Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT). This boot option can protect ESXi in some cases where system binaries are corrupted or have been tampered with. TXT is currently available on Intel Xeon processor 5600 series servers. For more information, see KB 1033811.
- Improvement in scalability — ESX(i) 4.1 Update 1 supports up to 160 logical processors.
- Support for additional guest operating systems — ESX(i) 4.1 Update 1 adds support for RHEL 6, RHEL 5.6, SLES 11 SP1 for VMware, Ubuntu 10.10, and Solaris 10 Update 9 guest operating systems. For a complete list of guest operating systems supported with this release, see the VMware Compatibility Guide.
- Inclusion of additional drivers — ESX(i) 4.1 Update 1 includes the 3ware SCSI 2.26.08.036vm40 and Neterion vxge 2.0.28.21239-p3.0.1.2 drivers. For earlier releases, these drivers were only available as separate downloads.
Resolved Issues – In addition, this release delivers a number of bug fixes that are documented in the Resolved Issues section for ESX and ESXi.
| Version number | 4.1 update 1 build 348481 |
| Release status | Final |
| Website | VMware |
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| License type | Conditions (GNU/BSD/etc.) |