Virtual Infrastructure 3 means a totally new licensing system, new pricing and new product names!

This PDF from vmware explains it all and I suggest you download it so you know what you want and need.

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi_pricing.pdf

SWBusiness has an interesting article on VMWare software lifecycle management. In this article Dan Chu, Senior Director of developer products of VMWare explains how the inclusion of Akimbi systems offerings (which VMWare acquired last week) will enable customers to automate setup and destruction of software solutions all in the one place. This will have a major effect on reducing project timelines and costs.

Here is a snippet from the article and the link is below. 

VMware, the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, today announced the addition of virtual lab automation, configuration management and self-service provisioning to its software lifecycle management solutions that span development, quality assurance, pre-production and production environments.

- As customers standardize on VMware virtual infrastructure, they are seeing a huge opportunity to leverage VMware's virtualization platform to enable a clean hardware and configuration-independent way to move from development to test to staging to production and streamline the constant iteration and cycling back through those stages, said Dan Chu, senior director of developer products at VMware.
http://www.swbusiness.fi/portal/news/?id=11454&area=7

Steve Herrod from VMWare has posted a great in depth article on ESX Server 3.0 and performance.

Here is a snippet from the article and the link is below.

For ESX 3.0, we've worked hard to improve performance across almost every component. Here I'll touch upon how some of the major improvements will affect your workloads, describing improvements to individual VM performance, I/O performance, and overall scalability. We're also hard at work on a number of more detailed whitepapers on these topics, so substantially more detail will follow. First, we've sped up memory management unit (MMU) operations inside virtual machines. In particular, we've decreased latencies of key operations such as page faults and context switches. This benefits almost every workload, and in particular process-heavy ones such as Terminal Services, Databases, and many enterprise applications. Such applications often require large amounts of memory, and virtual machines can now use up to 16 GB of memory by enabling Physical Address Extensions (PAE) within the guest operating system. In ESX 3.0 we improved PAE performance so that there is negligible overhead when running with PAE enabled. We've also added a number of optimizations to improve the performance of applications on Linux guests. In particular, we've optimized our handling of the Linux Native Posix Thread Library (NPTL).

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/blog/sherrod/

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