If you've been reading about vSphere 6 before its release, see also "Clarifying the misinformation"
You may remember my VMware vSphere 6 Beta Program is now open to the public! article, where I highlighted VMware's unprecedented attempt to get more beta testers than ever before.
The long awaited February 2nd launch of vSphere 6 didn't come along with General Availability of the code for folks to download. Naturally, this led to eager folks reading about what experiences folks were having with various beta builds, TinkerTry.com included.
Turns out there will be some significant differences between the beta builds and the upcoming RTM bits, and it's all nicely described for you by VMware's Mike Brown, with some excerpts below:
vSphere 6 - Clarifying the misinformation
With the Announcement of vSphere 6 this week there is a lot of information being published by various sources. Some of that information is based on old beta builds and is much different than what we'll see in the final product. In this post I aim to correct some of the information based on the beta builds that's floating around out there.
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vSphere C# Client beta builds had only host client functionality enabled. With the GA build, you can use the vSphere C# Client to connect to vCenter to do all activities just the way you would have done with previous releases. However, all new features from vSphere 5.1 onwards are available only in vSphere web client
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Already read.. Big fan of your site!
It's gotten a bit better, and vSphere 6, better still. See my home page at http://TinkerTry.com for several related articles, including:
http://TinkerTry.com/vsphere6vexpertblogposts
"However, all new features from vSphere 5.1 onwards are available only in vSphere web client"
"The exception to this is vSphere Update Manager (VUM), it is still a separate installation and can be installed on a different server, in the case of the vCenter Server appliance VUM must be installed on a windows server and registered with the vCenter Server appliance as VUM is a windows only service."
Sigh..
Still relying on Flash and Windows for a hypervisor in 2015.
I really wish they would get the "new thing" to work 100% before depreciating the "old thing"!
Paul Braren | TinkerTry.com
A, cool, thank you! March should be interesting for all of us...