VMware vSphere 6 is Out
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Today is the big day, the sixth release of VMware vSphere (ESXi) has released.
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VMware Virtual SAN 6 — Offering significant improvements in functionality, scale and performance, this upcoming release of VMware’s flagship Software-Defined Storage solution delivers a true enterprise-class storage system ready for business critical applications. In addition to a new high performance file system with enterprise-class snapshots and clones, VMware will deliver a new all-flash architecture for Virtual SAN—enabling Virtual SAN to quadruple its performance to an astounding 90k IOPs per node, while ensuring predictable low storage latency.
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VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes — A key component of VMware’s Software-Defined Storage strategy, vSphere Virtual Volumes is a storage ecosystem-wide initiative that enables customers to dramatically simplify how external storage arrays are managed in a virtual environment. With vSphere Virtual Volumes, VMware will achieve its vision for storage automation through a common policy-driven control plane that spans across heterogeneous storage infrastructure.
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VMware Integrated OpenStack 1.0 — Integrated OpenStack helps application developers accelerate projects by providing a production-grade OpenStack environment with simple, vendor neutral APIs. This solution helps IT administrators by providing those vendor-neutral APIs on top of VMware's best-of-breed Software-Defined Data Center infrastructure, allowing faster time-to-innovation while lowering total cost of ownership..
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Here is the PDF of What's New in vSphere 6
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I'm guessing that my v5.x licenses won't be upgradable to 6?
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Cool, need to download and start playing with it!
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@nadnerB said:
I'm guessing that my v5.x licenses won't be upgradable to 6?
Depends on your subscription.
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Awesome!
