Last month VMware announced the latest edition of VMware vSphere which is due to start shipping very soon, so for those of you who aren’t aware of the announcement we thought we would highlight some of the key features here.
- vSphere Storage DRS: storage resources can be grouped and balanced more effectively.
- Profile-Driven Storage: vSphere helps choosing and allocating storage resources based on the Service Level Agreement (SLA) of the target VM.
- Support for larger VMs: virtual machines can now have 32 virtual CPUs and 1TB of memory.
- vSphere vMotion: virtual machines can now be moved across high latency networks.
- vSphere Autodeploy: vSphere provides a network boot based system for new installations, allowing to automate the deploy of new virtual machines ESXi hosts.
- New version of the virtual machine format (version 8): added support for USB 3.0 devices, Windows Aero 3D graphics and OS X Server 10.6.
vCenter Appliance for Linux: a linux based management appliance is now available. - vSphere Web Client: a browser based interface for vSphere.
- VMware announced an update in licensing models for vSphere, introducing vRAM boundaries, which is the amount of memory allocated for a virtual machine when it is powered on. Which you can read more about here as there has been quite some noise about it.
- Improved SSD handling optimization
- vSphere Storage Appliance (VSA): The VSA creates shared storage out of local storage for use by a specific set of hosts. This means that vSphere HA & vMotion can now be made available on low-end (SMB) configurations, without external SAN or NAS servers. The vSphere Storage Appliance can be deployed in two configurations:
2 x ESXi 5.0 servers configuration
Deploys 2 vSphere Storage Appliances, one per ESXi server & a VSA Cluster Service on the vCenter server.
3 x ESXi 5.0 servers configuration
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