vSphere 6.0 finally announced! and not yet released

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
• Linked Mode support for vCenter Server Appliance
• Web Client performance and usability improvements
• Max Config:
• 64 hosts per cluster
• 8000 VMs per cluster
• 480 CPUs per host
• 12TB of memory
• 1000 VMs per host
• 128 vCPUs per VM
• 4TB RAM per VM

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

VMware announces opens public beta for Next-gen of vSphere 6

VMware has publicly released another beta version of vSphere 6.0, the next major update to its hypervisor technology.

As a part of that second public beta comes after a relatively small private Beta 1 gives the possibility to virtually any customer to test the next release of VMware’s flagship product, gaining some competitive advantages on its side and providing precious feedbacks to the vSphere Team.

Information posted at the VMware Community vSphere Beta Landing Page indicates that the vSphere 6.0 private beta is being opened up publicly to accelerate testing on a wider scale.

https://communities.vmware.com/viewwebdoc.jspa?documentID=DOC-27030&communityID=5854

VMware vSphere 6 introduces many new features and enhancements to further extend the core capabilities of the virtualization platform.

OS Enhancements

Linked Mode Enhancements