Specifications

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VMware GSX Server Virtual Machine Guide
Manage Virtual Disks with VMware Virtual Disk Manager
Create, manage and modify virtual disk files from the command line or within scripts
with the VMware Virtual Disk Manager utility. For more information, see Using VMware
Virtual Disk Manager on page 191.
New Operating System Support
Get the freedom to choose the operating systems and applications that work best for
you. VMware GSX Server 3.1 provides experimental support for Microsoft Windows
Server 2003 for 64-Bit Extended Systems (beta), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and SuSE
Linux Enterprise Server 8.0 on hosts with 64-bit processors.
Experimental guest operating system support is provided for Solaris 9 and 10
Operating System x86 Platform Edition.
VirtualCenter Ready
GSX Server 3.1 is enabled for management by VMware VirtualCenter. You can use
VirtualCenter to manage and provision virtual machines on multiple GSX Server hosts,
then migrate the virtual machines between other GSX Server and ESX Server systems
under VirtualCenter management.
GSX Server 3.1 Secured with OpenSSL 0.9.7d
GSX Server 3.1 incorporates the updated version of OpenSSL. OpenSSL 0.9.7d corrects
various security vulnerabilities.
Critical Bugs Fixed in GSX Server 3.1
Bugs fixed in this release include:
• Fix for Apache Web server crashes on Linux hosts after VMware Management
Interface timed out.
• Fix for problem that prevented the launching of the VMware Virtual Machine
Console from the VMware Management Interface on a Linux host.
• Fix for issue where the VMware Management Interface reported incorrect
memory and processor usage statistics.
• Fix for VMware Management Interface issue where connections secured with
SSL were redirected to insecure port 8222.
• Fix for Windows hosts where the Windows registry keys became read-only after
removing GSX Server 2.x. This caused the installation of GSX Server 3 to fail.
• Fix for Linux hosts where users in particular groups could not create virtual
machines.