On April 21, VMware announced VMware vSphere 4.0 (see http://www.vmware.com/go/vsphere). As noted on http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/overview.html , "VMware vSphere will be available for sale on May 21, 2009."
As noted on , "we will be releasing our SDKs and Toolkits at the same time as the vSphere platform releases ", with the following name changes:
"VI Management Assistant" (VIMA) will be renamed "vSphere Management Assistant" (vMA -- the abbreviation can still be pronounced "vee-ma")
"VI RCLI" will be renamed "vSphere vCLI"
"VI Perl Toolkit" will be renamed "vSphere SDK for Perl"
Administrators and developers will be able to use vMA 4.0 to run scripts and agents to
manage VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 and later, ESX/ESXi 4.0, and
vCenter Server 4.0 systems. When vMA 4.0 is released VMware will recommend that all customers currently using VIMA 1.0 upgrade to vMA 4.0.
--Harvey
Harvey Alcabes
Product Manager
VMware, Inc.