After vSphere 5 VMware announce the a new major release.
In this release VMware vSphere® 6.0 introduces many enhancements to VMware vSphere Hypervisor, VMware virtual machines, VMware vCenter Server™, virtual storage, and virtual networking. Right now I’ll write just a list of the improvements so you can have a quick look on which parts are involved. Later I’ll dedicate posts on the major enhancements.
According to VMware vSpehre Hypervisor these are the improvements:
- Scalability Improvements
- ESXi Security Enhancements
According to Virtual Machine these are the improvements:
- Virtual Machine Compatibility Level with ESXi 6.0
- vNUMA Enhancements
- Serial and Parallel Port Enhancements
- Expanded Guest OS Support
According to vCenter Server Enhancements these are the improvements:
- vCenter Server Architecture Changes
- Platform Services Controller
- Enhanced Linked Mode
- Certificate Management
- vCenter Server Appliance
- vSphere Web Client
- VMware vSphere vMotion
- VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance Enhancements
- VMware vSphere High Availability Enhancements
- Multisite Content Library
According to vSphere Storage Enhancements these are the improvements:
- Virtual Volumes
- VMware vSphere Data Protection Enhancements
- VMware vSphere Replication Enhancements
According to vSphere Networking these are the improvements:
- vSphere Network I/O Control Enhancements