With the huge push behind their VMware Infrastructure 3 product, who would have thought that VMware still had time to worry about its legacy server class virtualization product, VMware ESX Server 2.x? The company has announced yet another dot release, VMware ESX Server 2.5.4, Build 32233. One of the main reasons for this update is to add support for newer hardware and servers that weren't compatible with the pre With the huge push behind their VMware Infrastructure 3 product, who would have thought that VMware still had time to worry about its legacy server class virtualization product, VMware ESX Server 2.x? The company has announced yet another dot release, VMware ESX Server 2.5.4, Build 32233. One of the main reasons for this update is to add support for newer hardware and servers that weren’t compatible with the previous ESX Server release. The new server and hardware update is because of the hardware refresh that is going on right now in the industry with new chipsets, processors and SAS drives and controller cards. While these hardware incompatibilities were addressed for the most part within VI3, there is still a huge base of implementations running ESX Server 2.x that have not had a chance to migrate to the newer platform for one reason or another. The new 2.5.4 dot release will breathe enough life into the 2.x product to keep it running on some of the latest hardware being released.So what’s new within this 2.5.4 release? Support has been added for the following additional guest operating systems: Free BSD 4.11 Novell Open Enterprise Server Support Pack 2 Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 3.0 Update 8 Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 4.0 Update 4 Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 with Update Roll-up 1 Support has been added for the following additional systems based on the Xeon 5000 and 5100 series of processors: IBM x3650 Server IBM x3500 Server HP Proliant DL580 G4 Server HP Proliant ML570 G4 Server Dell PowerEdge 2900 Server And support for the following additional devices has been added: Broadcom 5706 PCI-X NIC Broadcom 5715 PCI-E NIC Broadcom 5708 on-board NIC Broadcom 5714 on-board NIC Intel Pro/1000 PT Single Port NIC Intel Pro/1000 PT Dual Port NIC IBM ServerRAID 8K controller Dell PERC 5/i LSI SAS controller (PC-E) LSISAS1064E LSI SAS controller (PCI-X) LSISAS1068 You can view the release notes for more information. And the update is now available for download. Software Development