另外一點很重要的不同則是在於Storage Pool的概念，不僅本地磁碟可以加入Storage Pool，現在也可以將CIFS協定(網芳啦)的遠端資料夾也加入Storage Pool，應該算是VMWare Infrastructure功能的下放，只可惜還沒有支援SAN or iSCSI等協定，不過SAN由Host mount起來再放進Storage Pool好像也是可以的。
New features and enhancements in the VMware Server Beta 1 release:
* Web-based management interface: A new Web-based user interface provides a simple, flexible, intuitive and productive way for you to manage your virtual machines.
* Expanded operating system support: VMware Server now supports Windows Vista Business Edition and Ultimate Edition (guest only), Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn Server Beta 3), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Ubuntu 7.1, among others.
* Greater scalability: Take full advantage of high-end hardware with support for up to 8GB of RAM per virtual machine, up to two virtual SMP (vSMP) processors and up to 64 virtual machines per host.
* 64-bit guest operating system support: Run high-performance operating systems in virtual machines with support for Intel EM64T VT-enabled processors and AMD64 processors with segmentation support.
* Support for VIX API 1.2: This feature provides a programming interface for automating virtual machine and guest operations.
* Support for Virtual Machine Interface (VMI): This feature enables transparent paravirtualization, in which a single binary version of the operating system can run either on native hardware or in paravirtualized mode.
* Support for USB 2.0 devices: Transfer data at faster data rates from USB 2.0 devices.
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