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vSphere 4.1 is now released! A slew of new features. Join the webinar on Friday at 3:00 EST that goes into a deep dive on the new features, sign-up at A list of documents related to this release:

VMware vSphere 4.1 Presentation – Whats New Technical

VMware vSphere 4.1 Brochure – EN

VMware vSphere4.1 DataSheet – Standard Edition EN

VMware vSphere 4.1 Whats New Flyer – Enterprise EN

VMware vSphere 4.1 Whats New Flyer – SMB – Now with VMotion!!!

VMware vSphere 4.1 DataSheet – Essentials Editions EN

Download links vSphere 4.1:
vCenter: http://bit.ly/9M6Rcz
ESX: http://bit.ly/9ypsFj
ESXi: http://bit.ly/arqXl

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To configure syslog on ESXi to forward to a central logger, you can just use the VIC and go to Configuration->Advanced Setting->Syslog ->Remote.

To do this on a bunch of ESXi servers, you will want to do this programatically using either the vSphere vCLI (Perl) or PowerCLI (Power Shell). Get these tools free at http://www.vmware.com/go/sysadmintools.

In the vCLI :

vicfg-syslog.pl –p 514 –s < IP of your syslog server > –server < IP of your ESXi host>

Then enter root username, and root password of your ESXi host.

In Power Shell:

Set-VMHostSysLogServer -SysLogServerPort 514 –SysLogServer < IP of your syslog sever > -VMHost < IP of your ESXi host >

Update 6/23/2010 : See this website for caveat with syslog on ESXi http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2010/06/esxi-syslog-caveat.html

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