The keynote of the VMworld 2012 issn´t finished jet but there have been already countless new accnounments about vSphere and vCloud Director. Here you find a short summary:
vSphere 5.1
-The vRAM licensing police got dropped
-A single VM supports now up to 64 vCPUs
-1 million IOPS per VM
-New VM Hardware Version 9
-Enhanced vMotion, which no longer requires a shared storage
-Many new Distributed Switch features (Port Mirror, LACP support, Net-Flow Enhancments, SR-IOV, Elastic Ports, BPDU Filters and more)
-New version of the vSphere Web Client, which is now the core managment interface
-VMware Tools will nolonger require a rebbot
-New methods to deploy ESXi hosts with Auto Deploy
-Single-sign-on (SSO) accross all layers of vCenter
-vSphere Data Protection (based on EMC Avamar, replaced vDR)
vCloud Director 5.1
-Possibility to create snapshots
-VXLAN
-Integrated Profile-Driven Storage
-Integrated Storage DRS
-Integration with vShield Edge
-Elastic Virtual Datacenters
With the beginning of the keynote also a lot of documents got released by VMware and also a lot of blog posts got released by people, which had access to a version of vSphere 5.1 and / or vCloud Director 5.1 before:
VMware:
- What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.1
- What’s new in VMware vCenter 5.1
- What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.1 – Networking
- What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.1 – Platform
- What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.1 – Storage
- What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.1 – Performance
- Introduction to VMware vSphere Replication
- Introduction to VMware vSphere Data Protection
- What’s new in VMware vSphere Storage Appliance
- What’s new in vCloud Director 5.1
Blog posts:
- Eric Sloof: Enhanced vMotion with vSphere 5.1
- Wahl Network: New 5.1 Distributed Switch Features
- Vladan SEGET: vCloud Director 5.1 released – what’s new
- Bas Raayman: VMware releases vSphere 5.1
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