Today at a live event in San Francisco VMware launched new offerings under theme of One Cloud Any Application. Following products were revelaed as part of the event
- VMware vSphere 6
- VMware Virtual SAN 6
- VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes
- vCloud Air Hybrid Networking Services powered by VMware NSX
- VMware Integrated OpenStack
Features in vSphere 6
Currently I have managed to know following stuff. More to come
Increased Scalability
vSphere 5.5
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vSphere 6.0
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Hosts per Cluster
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32
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64
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VMs per Cluster
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4000
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8000
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CPUs per Host
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320
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480
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RAM per Host
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4 TB
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12 TB
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VMs per Host
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512
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2048
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Virtual CPUs per VM
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64
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128
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vRAM per VM
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1 TB
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4 TB
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Enhancements
vMotion Enhancements
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Live Migration across VDS
Live Migration across vCenters with upto 100 ms RTT
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FT
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Expanded support for
softwarebased fault tolerance for workloads with up to 4 virtual CPUs
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Clones & Migration
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Copy and move virtual machines
between hosts on different vCenter Servers in a single action
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New Features
Instant Clones
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Technology, built in vSphere
6.0, that lays that
foundation to rapidly clone and deploy virtual machines, as much as 10x
faster than what is currently possible today. This is done using Rapid In
Memory Cloning
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vVols
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vSphere Virutal Volumes which
enabled VM aware storage
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Content Library
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Centralized repository that
provides simple and effective management for content including virtual
machine templates, ISO images and scripts
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