Beside this, training and certification are big issues in here. Most users will not affordable the training fees which is very expensive today to get certify. The value of the VCP should be the quality of deliver, and it shouldn’t be restricted to rich guy who able to pay for the course fees. Most expert are capable and experience but had not been attended any training and not certify which due to the expensive training cost.

I am not agreed with the product name changing from VI4 to vSphere which created unnecessary confuse to the existing users as well as to the new users. ESX had been a strong name and even until today, when I chat with my friend, we still talk about VI4, ESX 4 but not vSphere. It will take a little while to make ourselves use to the new naming which defined by VMware thanks to the marketing team’s new IDEA. Personal Point of view, the IT products is survived and success by the products quality, and not the name. VMware and ESX is branding, which is not an easy built up & strong branding in the pass.

1. 64 bits kernel VS the current 32 bits kernel on ESX server
2. Thin Provisioning
3. Fault Tolerance
4. 8 way virtual SMP
5. 256 GB memory per single VM

There are more to come in the road map of year 2009 which will be specified on the Vcloud, virtual data center and etc. At lease for today, this had been presented to the end user about some of the technology road map and features in the next version. ESX 4 is still under private beta test at this moment, which aim to be launched at 1st quarter next year.