VMworld 2012 in San Francisco has started. The keynote has(/had) some great highlights. Here is quick list which I found to be the most interesting.

• Paul Maritz introduced Pat Gelsinger as the new CEO
• VMware introduces vCloud Suite
• VMware introduces vSphere 5.1
• VMware kills vRAM and returns to per-CPU pricing
• 1M IOPS per VM
• More focus on the SMB market
• More focus on Hadoop
• Enhanced vMotion introduction: vMotion without Shared storage requirement
• Web client introduction: your new manager!
• vXLAN is real
• More focus on vCenter Operations Manager
• vCloud API introduced. Application Director now a part of the vCloud Suite
• Free upgrade from Enterprise+ to Cloud Suite

For a list on the technical PDF’s regarding the new release I suggest you use Duncan Epping’s list and catch up on the information. Within the next days a lot more will be announced during VMworld and we will see a lot of great things coming up!

Some screenshots I took during the live stream (great job on VMware Now):