New Vsphere 5.1 Features

[khyattglc]

Check out "The 5 key things that you need to know about the new VMware vSphere 5.1" Dell B2B Blog: The 5 key things that you need to know about the new VMware vSphere 5.1

What new feature that vSphere 5.1 brings to the table is your favorite?

[langlois6698]

vSphere vMotion® and vSphere Replication® are interesting features to improve VM movement in the network and ease hardware maintenance. However, a VMware vsphere entreprise 5.x licence costs from $2500 to $3145 per single processor !! An interesting alternative is the use of a free hypervisor like Xen or Kvm coupled to a free clustering solution like Ganeti for HA features similar than vMotion or vmware Replication (live VM migration, failover, ...). Ganeti - An opensource alternative to VMware Infrastructure - Home for details