On July 12th, CEO Paul Maritz announced the largest product launch in VMware history. vSphere 5 is being launched along with the following VMware Cloud Infrastructure and Management products:

<strong>• Site Recovery Manager 5
</strong><strong>• vSphere Storage Appliance 1.0</strong>

Software that delivers shared storage benefits without the cost and complexity of shared storage hardware. VMware vSphere Storage Appliance extends the benefits of virtualization to all SMBs by transforming internal storage from several server hosts into a protected shared storage resource

- Simple setup and configuration

- High availability without storage hardware required

- Pooled workloads for higher utilization and guaranteed service levels

• <strong>Heartbeat 6.4
</strong>• <strong>vShield 5
</strong>• <strong>vCloud Director 1.5</strong>

<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">eGroup can assist your company with these new solutions in the following ways</span></strong>:

- Education Briefings
- vSphere Health Check to prepare for 5.0 upgrade
- vSphere 5.0 upgrade services
- Consultation, Design, and Deployment Services for all new solutions
- Discounted Licensing

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 <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">What are the top features and enhancements with the 5 release</span></strong>?

<strong>- ESXi Convergence</strong> - The gold standard in hypervisors delivers the thinnest, most secure, and optimized hypervisor on the market today.

<strong>- Storage DRS</strong> - Group, place, and balance the storage for a virtual machines more efficientlyacross storage resources. Similar to vSphere DRS, this new capability for storage can place andbalance virtual machine data on storage based on space, I/O load, and additional user rules asrequired.

<strong>- Profile-Driven Storage</strong> - Further define service levels for storage by requesting a particular set of characteristics for a virtual machine. vSphere aligns those characteristics with the available storage resources to show users which resource align with the SLA they are trying to achieve.

<strong>- Auto Deploy</strong> - Automate the steps associated with the deployment and patching of vSphere hosts. Delivery vSphere hosts "on the fly" using this new intelligent automation feature.

<strong>- Larger or "Monster VMs"</strong> - Virtual machines grow 4x in terms of the amount of vCPUs and memory that can be allocated to each VM. A single VM can now use up to 32 vCPUs and up to 1 TB of vRAM.

<strong>- High Availability Enhancements</strong> - A new architecture for this popular vSphere feature delivers better cluster guarantees, a more simplified setup, and additional scalability.

<strong>- Additional Management Enhancements</strong> - vCenter Server is now available as a Linux-based virtual appliance. Users can also manage the critical tasks of vSphere from the new vSphere Web Client interface. These new management options mean more choice and flexibility for the user.

<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">The vSphere 5.0 licensing model is per processor (CPU) with pooled vRAM entitlements. It offers customers the following benefits relative to the previous vSphere 4.x model:</span></strong>

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<strong>- Flexibility - </strong>Extends the concept of resource pooling from technology to the business of IT by allowing aggregation and sharing of vRAM entitlement across a large pool of servers.

<strong>- Fairness -</strong> Better aligns cost with actual use and value derived, rather than with hardware configurations and capacity.

<strong>- Evolution -</strong> Allows customers to evolve to a cloud-like "pay for consumption" model without disrupting established purchasing, deployment and license-management practices and processes.

<strong>- Simplicity</strong> - Removes two physical constraints (core and physical RAM), replacing them with a single virtual entitlement (vRAM). Customers now have a clear path to license vSphere on next-generation hardware configurations.

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