vmware vsphere 5.0 capabilities

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ESXi 5.0 introduces a new generation of virtual hardware with virtual machine hardware version 8.
32-way virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)
ESXi 5.0 supports virtual machines with up to 32 virtual CPUs, which lets you run larger CPU-intensive workloads.
You can assign up to 1TB of RAM to ESXi 5.0 virtual machines.
Non-hardware accelerated 3D graphics for Windows Aero support.
      ESXi 5.0 supports 3D graphics to run Windows Aero and Basic 3D applications in virtual machines.
      Windows Aero is the graphical user interface and the default theme in most editions of      Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems released by Microsoft.
      It is also available in Windows Server 2008, but is not enabled by default.
Support for up to 512 virtual machines.
      vSphere 5.0 supports up to 512 virtual machines up to a maximum of 2048 virtual CPUs per host.
Support for larger systems.
      vSphere 5.0 supports systems with up to 160 logical CPUs
      vSphere 5.0 supports systems with up to 2TB RAM.
USB 3.0 device support.
       ESXi 5.0 features support for USB 3.0 devices in virtual machines with Linux guest operating systems.
       USB 3.0 devices attached to the client computer running the vSphere Web Client or the vSphere Client can be connected to a virtual machine and accessed within the virtual machine.
       USB 3.0 devices connected to the ESXi host are not supported at this time
UEFI virtual BIOS.
       Virtual machines running on ESXi 5.0 can boot from and use the Unified Extended Firmware Interface (UEFI).
       The Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is a specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware.
       UEFI is a replacement for the older BIOS firmware interface present in all IBM PC-compatible personal computers.
       UEFI is not restricted to any specific processor architecture, and can run on top of or instead of traditional BIOS implementations.
       UEFI adds support for a new partitioning scheme: GUID Partition Table (GPT).
Graphical User Interface to configure multi-core virtual CPUs.
       You can now configure the number of virtual CPU cores per socket in the Virtual Machine Properties view in the vSphere client.
       Previously this feature was only configurable through advanced settings.
Client-connected USB devices.
      USB devices attached to the client computer running the vSphere Web Client or the         vSphere Client can be connected to a virtual machine and accessed within it.
Smart card reader support for virtual machines.
        Smart card readers attached to the client computer running the vSphere Web Client or the vSphere Client can be connected to one or more virtual machines and accessed within them.
        The virtual machine remote console, available in the vSphere Web Client and the vSphere Client, supports connecting smart card readers to multiple virtual machines, which can then be used for smart card authentication to virtual machines.
Expanded support for vmware Tools versions.
       VMware Tools from vSphere 4.x is supported in virtual machines running on vSphere 5.0 hosts.
       Additionally, the version of VMware Tools supplied with vSphere 5.0 is also compatible with ESX/ESXi 4.x.
Apple Mac OS X Server guest operating system support.
        VMware vSphere 5.0 adds support for the Apple Mac OS X Server 10.6 ("Snow Leopard") as a guest operating system.
        Support is restricted to Apple Xserve model 3.1 systems

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