I dag starter VMworld 2013 i San Francisco.
Software Defined Datacenter med automatisering og virtualisering av datalagring og nettverk er noen av de største nyhetene i høst.
- VMware Virtual SAN – Software Defined Storage
- VMware NSX – Software Defined Networking
Mere om dette i senere blogg innlegg.
VMware vSphere, bransjens mest populære, robuste og funksjonsrike virtualiserings plattform får også en rekke forbedringer i høst. Listen over forbedringer og nyheter er lang, her er den obligatoriske spec listen over nyheter i vSphere 5.5 :
Scalability & Increased maximums
Logical CPUs per ESXi host: 320 (up from 160)
- Virtual CPUs per ESXi host: 4096 (up from 2048)
- NUMA nodes per ESXi host: 16 (up from 8)
- RAM per ESXi host: 4TB (up from 2TB)
- VMDK max size: 64TB (up from 2TB)
- 16Gb FC end to end support
- 40Gb NIC support
vSphere ESXi Hypervisor Enhancements
- Hot-Pluggable SSD PCI Express (PCIe) devices
- Support for Reliable Memory Technology
- Enhancements for CPU C-States (better performance & reduced power consumption)
- Native drivers for ESXi hypervisor enhancements
Virtual Machine Enhancements
- Virtual Machine Compatibility with VMware ESXi 5.5 (HW Version 10)
- LSI SAS support for Oracle Solaris 11
- Enablement for new CPU architectures
- Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) support
– 4 Controllers
– 30 Devices per controller
– 120 total devices - Expanded vGPU Support
– Includes both Intel- and AMD-based GPUs
– Render modes: automatic, hardware, software - Graphic Acceleration for Linux Guests
– Ubuntu 12.04 +, Fedora 17 +, RHEL 7
VMware vCenter Server Enhancements
- VMware vSphere Web Client
– Full client support for Apple Mac OS X
– Drag and drop
– Filters
– Recent Items - VMware vCenter Server Appliance
– Supports up to 500 hosts or 5.000 VMs - VMware vCenter Single Sign-On
– Updated with multi master architecture supporting a single deployment model
– Built in replication
– Removed database requirement
– Support for SSL Certificate Automation Tool
– Diagnostic tools - vSphere Big Data Extensions
– Plugin to deploy and manage Hadoop clusters
Availability Enhancements
vSphere App HA
– Restart pre-defined application services on issues- vSphere HA and VMware DRS
– VM antiaffinity rules now recognized as part of HA failover - vSphere Replication Interop
– Storage vMotion/SDRS - vSphere Replication Multiple-Point-In-Time Snapshot Retention
vSphere Storage Enhancements
- vSphere Flash Read Cache
– Virtual Machine Virtual Flash Read Cache
– Virtual Host Swap Cache - Support for 64TB (62.9) VMDK
- 16Gb FC end to end support (HBA-Switch-Array)
- Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS) Enhancements
– Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2012
– Round-robin path policy for shared storage
– iSCSI protocol for shared storage – Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) for shared storage - PDL AutoRemove
- VAAI UNMAP improvements
- VMFS heap improvements
vSphere Networking Enhancements
40Gb NIC support (Mellanox ConnextX3 VPI adapters)
- Link aggregation control protocol (LACP) enhancements
- Traffic filtering
- QoS tagging for end to end SLA
- SR-IOV enhancements for low latency applications
- Enhanced host level packet capture
vSphere PowerCLI enhancements
- Support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
- Cmdlets to manage vSphere tags
- Cmdlets for opening vSphere/vCloud VM console
- Additional Cmdlets to manage VDS
VMware vSphere 5.5 with Operations Management line-up
Ytterligere informasjon ?
For flere detaljer om dette, last ned vSphere 5.5 whitepaper:
What’s new in VMware vSphere 5.5 Platform