VMware is already busy planning the second VMworld Europe, the event will be held on Feb 24-26 2009 at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes . That is the same location as the previous VMworld Europe event in 2008.

If you want to be kept informed about the event you can already [...]

Richard Garsthagen from VMware at www.run-virtual.com posted a nice article about ESXi and the ability to get full control over it.

an excerpt from his post:

As you probably know ESX 3i is the embedded version of ESX, mainly run from USB flash disks build-in servers from HP, Dell, IBM and FSC, but [...]

Today I received an email from VMware in which the company made some announcements about the general availability of two products and a new softwarebundle.

On May 12, 2008, the company announced VMware Stage Manager, VMware Site Recovery Manager, VMware IT Service Delivery Pack, and the Management and Automation bundle.

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Arnold Veenema a colleague of mine wrote an interesting item on his website about how to create your own bootable USB stick with ESXi (Previous called ESX 3i) using the download of the ESXi installable ISO-image. In twelve easy steps you will be able to use your own USB [...]