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What's New in vSphere?

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== What's New in vSphere? ==

Michael Adams, VMware - madams@vmware.com
: funny email address: "madams"

vSphere 6.0 Beta - http://www.vmware.com/go/vspherebetaq2

Agenda:
* Foundation Recap
* State of the Union
* Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO)
* New Workloads - Pivotal CF, Big Data
* Tech Previews
* vCD Transition
* EOA Reminders

vSphere 5.5 - what's new in 2013:
* app ha
* flash read cache
* replication improvements
* backup and recovery improvements
* big data extensions

new customer benefits:
* high availability now tied to specific applications
* accelerates performance for mission critical applications by up to 2x
* ability to run big data applications on vSphere

vSphere Go to Market:
* vCloud Suite
* vSphere A La Carte
* vSphere with Operations Management - with insight into capacity and health

Announcing at VMworld 2014:
* vSphere 5.5 Update 2
* vCloud Suite 5.8
* vSphere for ROBO
* vSphere Beta (6.0)

New in vCloud Suite 5.8:
* Improved business continuity and disaster recovery
* Enhanced next-generation features

Future:
* vMotion across vCenter Servers
* Long-distance vMotion (coast to coast) - up to 100 ms RTT
* Fault tolerance for Multi-Processor VMs
* App HA and Component Protection

Content Library
* Bringing into vSphere
* Store and sync VMs, OVFs and ISOs
* Sync between multiple vCenter Servers

Virtual Data Center (VDC)
* Bringing into vSphere
* Aggregate resources and simplify the VM provisioning experience
* aggregates compute clusters, storage clusters, networks and policies
* create unified resource pool for VM creation

RIP:
* vSphere 4.x and Lab Manager EOS
* Heartbeat EOA and EOS Annoucned
* SLES License included with Vmware EOA and EOS Announced

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