vSphere 5.1 GA Release

Well it's September, and that means another VMware vSphere version release!
Yes, vSphere 5.1 is GA, along with vCloud Director 5.1.
You can check out the What's New in 5.1 here:
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vsphere/vmware-what-is-new-vsphere51.pdf
Several interesting new features,
vSphere Distributed Switch – Enhancements such as Network
Health Check, Configuration Backup and Restore, Roll Back and
Recovery, and Link Aggregation Control Protocol support and
deliver more enterprise-class networking functionality and a more
robust foundation for cloud computing.
 vSphere Data Protection – Simple and cost effective backup
and recovery for virtual machines. vSphere Data Protection is a
newly architected solution based EMC Avamar technology that
allows admins to back up virtual machine data to disk without
the need of agents and with built-in deduplication. This feature
replaces the vSphere Data Recovery product available with
previous releases of vSphere.
Interesting since I am in the process of implementing Avamar at my current customer. A more detailed post on that to come.