ESX 3.0 vs 3.5

[TSCustomer]

Is there really that big of a difference between ESX 3.0 and 3.5.

[David Davis]

Really, the difference between 3.5 and 3.0.2 is NOT like Win 2003 and Win 2008. Its more like XP and XP SP2. In fact, they were originally calling 3.5 “version 3.0.3” – that shows how few features it has. I guess that they figured they had more features than just a SP would have so they called it 3.5. In fact at VMworld Europe last week (according to all the press I have read), VMware didn’t even spend much time on 3.5.

[TSCustomer]

Does your training video cover 3.5?

[David Davis]

We did do a video on the differences that 3.5 offers. I demoed most of the new 3.5 features and the new 3i. I don’t recall how long that video was but I would guess that it was about 45 min.