The long awaited major upgrade of vSphere has been unveiled! Today, VMware’s Pat Gelsinger and Ben Fathi made the official announcement of the vSphere 6.0 release with some amazing innovations. They claim this release offers 650+ new features and enhancements! The following list highlights just a few of the more noteworthy features:
- Install and upgrade capability enhancements
- New hardware, architectures, and guest OS expanded support
- Scalability increases
- Storage IO Control additions
- Storage and availability integration increases
- NFSv4.1 with Kerberos
- vMotion enhancements
- vSphere Fault Tolerance for multi-processor VMs (SMP-FT)
- vCloud Air integration
- vSphere replication improvements in scalability and performance
- App HA expanded support
- Network IO Control expanded support
- Web Client enhancements
- Multi-site content library
- vSphere host client
- VMware certificate life cycle management
Along with this product launch, VMware also made announcements of upgrades and advances to the following products:
- Virtual SAN 6.0
- vSphere Virtual Volumes (vVols)
- vCloud Air Hybrid Networking Services powered by VMware NSX
- VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO)
I will be posting articles over the next few weeks as I delve further into these products and upgrades. Feel free to check back as I share more content on these exciting releases. In the meantime, browse the technical docs that VMware has already published:
Or give the products a spin on the free hosted evaluations (Hands On Labs):
VMware will continue to promote these announcements over the next month on their One Cloud, Any Application announcement page as well as on Twitter (along with the rest of the community) with the #vmw28days hashtag. Be sure to follow!
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