VSI features like USM,Storage Viewer...etc regularly have new releases, release notes/product guides for the new releases will make clear if vSphere 5.1 will be supported (please stay tuned ).
No, there hasn't been. I can't imagine it will be much longer but we just don't know until it happens. 5.4 is still the latest version which was released towards the end of September if I recall correctly.
Sure thing! Well I don't know the roadmap (and if I did I'm unfortunately not authorized to speak to it publically) but if I had to guess it would be sometime between a month and a year. Sorry I cannot give you a better answer, maybe someone else can.
The 6.1 release of VSI for web client is now out and supports the direct provisioning of VNX/VMAX as well as viewing the storage details of datastores/RDMs get it here:
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Posted September 17th, 2012 14:00
We are re-writing the EMC VSI plugin for the VMware webcient. We previewed the next generation EMC VSI plugin at VMWorld2012. A copy of the demo is avaiable at: http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2012/08/vmworld-2012-emc-vsinext-flex.html
We don't expect the web client compatible VSI plugin not before the end of 2012.