Yellow-Bricks had a early blog post stating that the VMware vSphere 5 product line is now available for download.
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Added Aug 25, 2011, By Duncan Epping with 6 Comments
The wait is finally over… I’ve noticed many people on twitter craving for it so I figured it wouldn’t harm anyone if I would provide the links to the download page. Here are the links to the direct page of ESXi and vCenter
- VMware ESXi 5.0 (Build 469512)
- VMware vCenter 5.0 (Build 456005)
- VMware Data Recovery 2.0 (Build 433157)
- vSphere Storage Appliance 1.0
- VMware vShield Zones for vSphere 5 (Build 216288)
- Documentation link (docs also available in epub and kindle format!)
Evaluation Guides:
- VMware vSphere 5 Evaluation Guide – Volume One
- VMware vSphere 5 Evaluation Guide – Volume Two – Advanced Storage Features
- VMware vSphere 5 Evaluation Guide – Volume Three – Advanced Networking Features
- VMware vSphere 5 Evaluation Guide – Volume Four – Auto Deploy
- VMware Data Recovery Evaluation Guide
What’s new whitepapers (release at launch last month):
- What’s New in vSphere 5.0
- What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.0: VMware vCenter
- What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.0: Platform Whitepaper
- What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.0: Performance Whitepaper
- What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.0: Storage Whitepaper
- What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.0: Networking Whitepaper
- What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.0: Availability Whitepaper
- What’s New in VMware Data Recovery 2.0 Technical Whitepaper
- VMware vSphere Storage Appliance Technical Whitepaper
- What’s New in VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5 Technical Whitepaper
- What’s New in VMware vCloud Director 1.5 Technical Whitepaper
By the way, did you know there were over 140 new features in vSphere 5.0? Check out my article on the VMware vSphere Blog for a full list and for a nice contest / challenge!
(edit 09:00 – added links to VSA, Zones and Data Recovery)
(edit 10:53 – added eval guide links)”
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Thanks Duncan Epping for taking the time to put the above togeather.
My Self, like the test of you, can’t wait to dive in.
Of note, I see that the licensing upgrade will not be available until next week.
Roger L.
