VMworld 2014/What's New in vSphere

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