VMware vSphere 5.0 is there. You can download the Software using the links below 
VMware ESXi 5.0 (Build 469512)
VMware vCenter 5.0 (Build 456005)
VMware Data Recovery 2.0 (Build 433157)
VMware vShield Zones for vSphere 5 (Build 216288)
Tag: vSphere
VMware vSphere 5.0 Product Documentation
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New Features and Release Notes |
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Compatibility and Configuration Limits |
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Hardware, Host, and Guest Operating System Compatibility Guides |
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ESXi and vCenter Server Product Documentation |
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VMware vSphere Basics Guide |
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vSphere Installation and Setup Guide |
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vSphere Upgrade Guide |
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vCenter Server and Host Management Guide |
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vSphere Virtual Machine Administration Guide |
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vSphere Host Profiles Guide |
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vSphere Networking Guide |
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vSphere Storage Guide |
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vSphere Security Guide |
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vSphere Resource Management Guide |
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vSphere Availability Guide |
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vSphere Monitoring and Performance Guide |
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vSphere Troubleshooting |
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VMware vSphere Examples and Scenarios Guide |
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Command-Line Product Documentation |
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Getting Started with vSphere Command-Line Interfaces Guide |
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vSphere Command-Line Interface Concepts and Examples |
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vSphere PowerCLI User’s Guide |
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VMware vSphere Update Manager PowerCLI Installation and Administration Guide |
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vSphere Management Assistant Guide |
The VCP5 Mock Exam is available
VMware has released the mock exam for VCP on vSphere 5. The VCP5 mock exam consist of 30 questions and is available here. The official VCP5 exam can be scheduled at the end of this month.
VMware vSphere 5.0 Documentation
VMware vSphere™ 5.0 (“vSphere”) introduces many improvements and new features to extend the benefits and capabilities of vSphere 4.1. These advancements build on the core capacities in vSphere to provide improved scalability; better performance; and easier provisioning, monitoring and troubleshooting. This paper focuses on the following new features and enhancements:
• Virtual machine enhancements
• Improved SSD handling and optimization
• Command-line enhancements
• VMware® ESXi™ firewall
• vSphere Image Builder
• vSphere Auto Deploy server
• vSphere Host Profiles
• VMware vCenter™ Update Manager
VMware View Bootcamp
VMware is organizing a nine-part VMware View Bootcamp: every day a new video is published for you to view. At the end of this bootcamp, you will have a good understanding of the VMware View solution, how to roll it out and how to optimize View in your environment. A free e-book of all the presentations is included in this bootcamp series. A hope I can download the free e-book 
. Because I am going on Holiday next week.
VMware View Bootcamp Series
Design Considerations Guidelines for VMware View – Overview
- Speaker – John Dodge, Sr. Manager PSO Services, VMware
- Overview of the technical considerations to keep in mind while you’re designing a View environment
Storage Deep Dive – Considerations and Best Practices
- Speaker – Jim Yanik, Sr. Systems Engineer, VMware
- How to design your storage infrastructure to fit your environment
- Sizing and workload considerations
Network Considerations and Best Practices
- Speaker – Shannon McFarland; Consulting Engineer for Data Center technologies and Enterprise IPv6 design on Cisco’s Consulting Engineering team in the Office of the CTO, Cisco
- Network requirements for LAN and WAN
- Bandwidth requirements deep dive
- Security considerations – Security Server, AV, Encryption, Authentication
Optimizing the Base Image for VMware View
- Speaker – Todd Dayton, Staff Product Manager, Desktop Product Management, VMware
- How to build and tune your desktop image
- User and workload considerations
- OS specific tips (XP, Win7)
Delivering Applications
- Speaker – Heath Doer, Sr Systems Engineer, VMware
- Packaging and updates (applink and appsync)
- Best practices-storage, image management and application deployment
- Application migration, application conflict and compatibility
PCoIP Implementation Overview and PCoIP Tuning Best Practices
- Speaker – Chuck Hirstius, PSO, WW Advanced Services, VMware
- How to optimize PCoIP for different types of workloads
- How to optimize for LAN, mobile and remote users
- Bandwidth requirements
Automating View 4.5 with Powershell
- Speaker – Tom Elliot, Sr. MTS, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
- Introduction to View PowerCLI
- Setting up an environment and basic tasks
- Creating your own scripts
- Integrating with vSphere
Leveraging Security Server for PCoIP
- Speaker – Mark Benson, View Architect, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
- Introduction to Security Server
VMware View’s Reference Architecture
- Speaker – Mac Binesh, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
- Review of RA for stateless desktops
- Description of test environment, equipment and lab results
VMware Compliance Checker for vSphere
VMware vCenter XVP Manager and Converter
- Management of the following Microsoft Hyper-V platforms:
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) with Hyper-V role enabled
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V role enabled
- Familiar vCenter Server graphical user interface for navigating through and managing non-vSphere inventory
- Ease of virtual machine migrations from non-vSphere hosts to vSphere inventory
- Compatible with VMware vCenter Server 4.0 & 4.1
- Scalable up to management of 50 non-vSphere hosts
VMware vCenter XVP Manager and Converter provides basic virtualization management capabilities for non-vSphere hypervisor platforms towards enabling centralized visibility and control across heterogeneous virtual infrastructures. It also simplifies and enables easy migrations of virtual machines from non-vSphere virtualization platforms to VMware vSphere.
Features
For more detailed information refer to the vCenter XVP Manager and Converter Technology Preview Release Notes and Installation Guide (included in zip file download).
VIDEO’s
Installation
Host Operations
Convert HyperV VMs to vSphere
Guest VM Operations inside HyperV
Download: HERE
Clipboard Copy and Paste option is disabled in vSphere Client 4.1
I upgraded my home test server to ESXi 4.1 and I the Clipboard Functie is disabled by default and that is so annying
Solution:
Starting with vSphere 4.1, the Copy and Paste options are, by default, disabled for security reasons.
To be able to copy and paste between the guest operating system and the remote console, you must enable the Copy and Paste options using the vSphere Client. Alternatively, you can use RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) to connect to the Windows virtual machines.
To enable this option for a specific virtual machine:
- Log into a vCenter Server system using the vSphere Client and power off the virtual machine.
- Select the virtual machine and click the Summary tab.
- Click Edit Settings.
- Navigate to Options > Advanced > General and click Configuration Parameters.
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Click Add Row and type the following values in the Name and Value columns:
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- isolation.tools.copy.disable – false
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isolation.tools.paste.disable – false
Note: These options override any settings made in the VMware Tools control panel of the guest operating system.
- Click OK to close the Configuration Parameters dialog, and click OK again to close the Virtual Machine Properties dialog.
- Power on the virtual machine.
Note: If you vMotion a virtual machine to a host where the isolation.tools.*="FALSE" is already set, the copy and paste options are automatically activated for that virtual machine.
To enable this option for all the virtual machines in the ESX/ESXi host:
- Log in to the ESX/ESXi host as a root user and open the /etc/vmware/config file using a text editor.
- Add these entries to the file:
isolation.tools.copy.disable="FALSE"
isolation.tools.paste.disable="FALSE" - Save and close the file. The Copy and Paste options are only enabled when the virtual machines restart or resume the next time.
For more information, see the Limiting Exposure of Sensitive Data Copied to the Clipboard section of the ESX Configuration Guide.
Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 4.1
VMware has released another great “technical paper” regarding Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 4.1. It can be found in the Technical Resource Center which by the way contains a lot of awesome docs.
The technical paper, Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 4.1, provides performance tips that cover the most performance-critical areas of VMware vSphere 4.1. It is not intended as a comprehensive guide for planning and configuring your deployments.
Chapter 1 – “Hardware for Use with VMware vSphere,” provides guidance on selecting hardware for use with vSphere.
Chapter 2 – “ESX and Virtual Machines,” provides guidance regarding VMware ESX™ software and the virtual machines that run in it.
Chapter 3 – “Guest Operating Systems,” provides guidance regarding the guest operating systems running in vSphere virtual machines.
Chapter 4 – “Virtual Infrastructure Management,” provides guidance regarding resource management best practices.
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere4.1.pdf
Free Hyper9 GuessMyOSToo Plug-in for VI3 and vSphere4
This plug-in replaces generic VM icons in the VI3 and vSphere4 client inventory trees with OS-specific icons for both Windows and Linux guests.
System Requirements
The only requirement is Virtual Center 2.5 or higher. The Hyper9 product is NOT required.
Download HERE