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VMWare Technology Day, Mumbai, India

I had an chance to attend recent VMWare Technology Day, Mumbai, India.
During the session, VMWare Declared the following features will be added in future version. The future version will be named as "vSphere".

1. 256 GB RAM for Guest Systems
2. 8 CPU Support
3. Hot CPU and PCI Devices Support
4. 512 GB RAM for Host Systems
5. 128 Core CPU Support (Current 32 Cores and 64 Cores experimentally Supported)
6. vStorage Thin Provisioning
7. vStorage Linked Clones
8. vCenter AppSpeed (http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-appspeed/)
9. vcenter Orchestrator (http://virtualfuture.info/2008/09/vmworld-2008-tech-preview-vcenter-orchestrator/)
10. vCenter Capacity IQ (http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-capacityiq/)
11. vCenter Chargeback (http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-chargeback/)

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