After long (too long) waiting VMware made vSphere 5.5 Generally Available for download 
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vSphere 5.5 Download
Useful Links:
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- VMware vSphere 5.5 Release Notes
- Hardware,Host Operating System, and Guest Operating System Compatibility Guides
- VMware Product Interoperability Matrix
- Configuration Maximums for VMware vSphere 5.5
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You can also look at me set of blog posts what’s new in VMware vSphere 5.5
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- What’s new in vSphere 5.5 Storage
- What’s new in vSphere 5.5 in vCenter Server
- What’s new in vSphere 5.5 in ESXi
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Link repository to must know repository before you go for vSphere 5.5
- Update sequence for vSphere 5.5 and its compatible VMware products (2057795)
- Methods for installing vCenter Server 5.5 (2053142)
- Methods of upgrading to vCenter Server 5.5 (2053130)
- Methods of installing ESXi 5.5 (2052439)
- Methods for upgrading to ESXi 5.5 (2058352)
- Creating and using a Service Principal Account in vCenter Single Sign-On 5.5 (2058298)
- Virtual Flash feature in vSphere 5.5 (2058983)
- Configuring CA signed SSL certificates for vCenter Single Sign-On in vSphere 5.5 (2058519)
- Reconfiguring the load balancer after upgrading a vCenter Single Sign-On High Availability deployment to version 5.5 (2058838)
- Required ports for vCenter Server 5.5 (2051575)
- Licensing ESXi 5.x and vCenter Server 5.x (2014295)
