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The votes are in: Favorite vSphere enhancements

Now that users have started using vSphere, I wanted to know which new technologies in the latest ESX platform release are most popular. I ran two polls on my website, and the survey results are in: Thin provisioning is the favorite new major enhancement and alarm improvements are the favorite smaller enhancement. Both features existed in VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) but were very limited and difficult to use.

In VI3, thin provisioning could only be used when creating virtual disks via the command-line interface, but in vSphere it is fully integrated into the vSphere client, which makes is much easier to use. Additionally, new alarms and reporting helps manage your thin-disk usage.

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