vmwarethiru.blogspot.com: March 2015

Monday, March 9, 2015

I would like to share the quick post which details what is in vSphere 6.0 / what is new.

vSphere 6

Virtual Volumes

Long Distance vMotion
Cross vSwitch and vCenter vMotion
vMotion of MSCS VMs using pRDMs
vMotion L2 adjacency restrictions are lifted!
vSMP Fault Tolerance
Content Library
NFS 4.1 support
Instant Clone aka VMFork
vSphere HA Component Protection
Storage DRS and SRM support
Storage DRS deep integration with VASA to understand thin provisioned, deduplicated, replicated or compressed datastores!
Network IO Control per VM reservations
Storage IOPS reservations
Introduction of Platform Services Controller architecture for vCenter

SSO, licensing, certificate authority services are grouped and can be centralized for multiple vCenter Server instances

vSphere Replication

Compression of replication traffic configurable per VM
Isolation of vSphere Replication host traffic
vSphere Data Protection now includes all vSphere Data Protection Advanced functionality
Up to 8TB of deduped data per VDP Appliance
Up to 800 VMs per VDP Appliance
Application level backup and restore of SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint
Replication to other VDP Appliances and EMC Avamar
Data Domain support

Virtual SAN 6

All flash configurations

Blade enablement through certified JBOD configurations

Fault Domain aka “Rack Awareness”

Capacity planning / “What if scenarios”

Support for hardware-based checksumming / encryption

Disk serviceability (Light LED on Failure, Turn LED on/off manually etc)

Disk / Diskgroup maintenance mode aka evacuation

Virtual SAN Health Services plugin

Greater scale

64 hosts per cluster

200 VMs per host

62TB max VMDK size

New on-disk format enables fast cloning and snapshotting

32 VM snapshots

From 20K IOPS to 40K IOPS in hybrid configuration per host (2x)

90K IOPS with All-Flash per host

Monday, March 9, 2015