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What's New in VMware vSphere? Michael Adams, Vmware madams@vmware.com VSVC4605 #VSVC4605
22 Agenda  Launch Context and Product Set  vSphere 5.1 Quick Recap  vSphere 5.5 New Features  Announcements and Reminders  Q and A
33 VMware’s SDDC Architecture Software-Defined Data Center Abstract. Pool. Automate. Management and Automation Network and Security Compute Storage and Availability
44 VMware Top Level Cloud Infrastructure and Management Offerings vSphere Std vCOps Std vSphere Ent vCOps Std vSphere Ent+ vCOps Std vSOM Std $1,745 vSOM Ent $3,625 vSOM Ent+ $4,245 Virtualization; Insight on capacity and health • Enterprise (Emerging) • Commercial & SMB Customers Capability Private Cloud: Pooled, Automated, Self-service • Enterprise & Commercial • Premier SMB vSphere Ent+ vCD vC OPS Adv vCNS vSphere Ent + vCD vC OPS Ent vC SRM Ent vCNS vCAC Ent vCloud Suite ADV $7,495 vCloud Suite ENT $11,495 vCloud Suite STD $4,995 vSphere Ent+ vCD vCNS vC OPS Std vCAC AdvvCAC Std vSphere with Operations Management per CPU vCloud Suite per CPU
55 vSphere with Operations Management vSphere vCenter Server • Capacity planning – know how many days before capacity runs out so IT can continue to be responsive • Optimize efficiency – know on which virtual machines might be overprovisioned • Improve performance - faster root cause identification of emerging issues • Proven virtualization platform – for fully virtualized environments (including business critical applications) VMware vSphere The proven compute virtualization platform vSphere with Operations Management • World’s leading virtualization platform • Insight to workload capacity and health
66 vSphere 5.1 Quick Recap
77 vSphere Recap – What’s New in vSphere 5.1? Automation Core Services Security • vShield Endpoint* • Storage DRS and Profile-Driven Storage integration with VCD • Enhanced Auto Deploy • Data Protection • Replication* • vMotion w/o shared storage • 0 Downtime upgrades of VMware Tools Availability NetworkStorage • Enhanced Distributed Switch • SR-IOV support • Storage Appliance • Storage Space Reclamation for VDI • HW version 9 • 64 way SMP 1 TB VMs Compute • Single Sign On • vSphere Web Client • Enhanced vCenter Orchestrator • Capacity Optimization • Health and Performance Montioring *Now included at no charge with vSphere platform Management Services
88 vSphere 5.5 New Features
99  Performance and Scale  App HA  Flash Read Cache  Replication  Backup and Recovery  Big Data Extensions vSphere 5.5: What’s New in 2013 New Features New Customer Benefits
1010 vSphere in 2013 – New Applications and Architectures vSphere Big Data Extensions – Optimize Hadoop Workloads and Extend Project Serengeti Pivotal and VMware vSphere – Building PaaS On-Premise OpenStack – Delivering Architecture Choices Latest Chip Set Support – Next Generation Intel® Xeon® processor E5 v2 Intel® Atom™ Processor C2000
1111 vSphere Performance and Scale Benefits Overview • Low latency application configuration • 2x Increase in Configuration Maximums • Up to 64 TB VMDKs • Low latency application optimization – tune vSphere • Support for even the largest business critical applications
1212 vSphere Configuration Maximums Increases  320 pCPU  4TB memory  16 NUMA Nodes  4096 vCPUs  … per ESXi host vSphere 5.1 vSphere 5.5 160 pCPU 320 pCPU 2TB Memory 4TB Memory 8 NUMA Nodes 16 NUMA Nodes 2048 vCPUs 4096 vCPUs
1313 Low Latency Sensitivity – Testing Proof
1414 vSphere App HA • Detect and recover from application or OS failure • Supports most common packaged applications (Exchange, SQL, Oracle, SharePoint, etc.) • vCloud Extensibility – APIs to Ecosystem • Simpler management from vCenter Server • Tier 1 application protection at scale • Lower TCO than traditional application specific cluster availability solutions vSphere OS APP OS APP VMware HA App Restart 1 2 3 Overview Benefits
1515 vSphere Flash Read Cache • Virtualized flash resource managed just like CPU and memory • Per-VM hypervisor-based read caching using server flash • Compatible with vMotion, DRS & HA • Accelerates performance for mission critical applications by up to 2x • Enables efficient use of server flash in virtual environments • Fully transparent read-caching – no host agents or application changes vSphere SAN/NAS CPU Pool Memory PoolFlash Pool New Accelerate performance Overview Benefits
1616 vSphere Big Data Extensions • vSphere extends support for Big Data workloads, including all major Hadoop distributions • Virtualize Hadoop on common vSphere infrastructure for unmatched flexibility • Separation of storage and compute enables elastic scaling and true multi-tenancy • Elastic scalability • Higher cluster utilization • Easy to use interface • Lower TCO through hardware consolidation • Enhanced HA/FT leveraging vSphereStorage Compute Current Hadoop: Combined Storage/ Compute Storage T1 T2 VM VM VMVM VM Elastic Scaling: Separation of Storage and Compute Hadoop Stack: vSphere extending to support Big Data workloads Physical Host Overview Benefits
1717 vSphere Replication • VM-level replication by the vSphere host • New Support for: • Multiple Point-In-Time Copies • Multiple Replication Appliances per vCenter Server • Storage vMotion • Low cost/efficient replication • More granular recovery options • DR scalability and flexibility across BCAs • Integration with SRM enables automated DR process vSphere vSphere Replication Site A (Primary) vSphere Site B (Recovery) Overview Benefits
1818 vSphere Data Protection is VMware’s Backup & Recovery Tool VMware vSphere Data deduplicated VDP From Powered by Architecture VDP provides proven, efficient and simple backup and recovery for small and midsize vSphere environments vSphere Data Protection (included with vSphere at no cost)  Deployed as a virtual appliance  Agent-less, image-level backup to disk  Integrated with the vSphere platform vSphere Data Protection Advanced (additional purchase)  All VDP capabilities plus:  4x greater scalability  Agent-based, application-awareness for Exchange and SQL  Easy upgrade from VDP Overview Benefits  Built for vSphere, based on EMC Avamar technology  4x more storage-efficient  6x faster recovery  Fast and easy deployment  Managed directly from the vSphere Web Client  Designed for the vSphere admin What’s new with VDP 5.5 • Direct to host recovery (no dependency on vCenter Server) • Individual .vmdk backup and restore • Detachable/re-mountable backup storage
1919 vCenter Server 5.5  vCenter Single Sign-On • Improved user experience in multi domain environments • Secure Database connectivity with Windows Authentication  vCenter Server Appliance • Scalability of embedded database (vPostgres) • Now supports up to 500 vSphere hosts / 5000 virtual machines  vCenter Databases • Official support for database clustering technologies
2020 vCenter Server 5.5  vSphere Web Client • Increased Platform Support • Added support for OS X • VM Console access • Deploy OVF Templates • Attach Client Devices • Enhanced Usability Experience • Drag and Drop • Filters • Recent Items
2121 The Best of the Rest  Platform • Virtual Machine Compatibility ESXi 5.5 (vHW 10) • Expanded vGPU and GP-GPU Support • Hot-Plug SSD PCIe Devices • Support for Reliable Memory • Enhancements for CPU C-States  Storage • Support for 62TB VMDK • 16GB E2E support • MSCS supportability enhancements • Storage vMotion and SDRS compatibility • VAAI UNMAP & VMFS Heap enhancements  Network • Enhancement to LACP feature • Enhanced SR-IOV • Traffic Filtering • QoS Tagging • Packet Capture • 40 Gig Support
2222 Announcements and Reminders
2323 What’s Cookin’?  Where is all this great stuff?  Full support lifecycle  Convergence and Transition Plan – How does this impact vSphere? GOT SuSe?
2424 vSphere and vSphere with Operations Management Lineup Price (per CPU, license only) Features • Health Monitoring and Performance Analytics • High Availability, and Fault Tolerance • vMotion, and Storage vMotion • Host Profiles and Auto Deploy • Storage DRS, Profile-Driven Storage All editions include: Thin Provisioning, Update Manager, Storage APIs for Data Protection, Image Profile, and SLES Feature also available in vCenter Operations Standard • Capacity Management and Optimization • Operations Dashboard and Root Cause Analysis • I/O Controls (Network and Storage) and SR-IOV $1,745 $3,625 $4,245 vSphere with Operations Management Standard Enterprise Enterprise+ • Reliable Memory • Data Protection (backup) // and VM Data Replication • vShield Endpoint • Storage APIs for Array Integration, Multipathing • Distributed Resource Scheduler and Distributed Power Management • Big Data Extensions • Flash Read Cache • Distributed Switch Existing feature • App HA New feature
2525 vSphere 5.5 Support Lifecycle  Normal 5 year support would end 2016 (based on vSphere 5 starting in 2011)  Support will be extended to 2018 (full 5 year cycle)  Only applies to 5.5 (ESXi and vCenter Server)  Final date to be posted by the end of Q3 and will be based on GA date
2626 VMware’s Plan to Reduce Complexity and Simplify the Cloud vCloud Director (vCD) vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) Virtualization Platform Well governed Self-Service Delivery Cloud Administration Cloud Automation provides personalized, self-service delivery of application, infrastructure, and desktop services by fully automating the end-to-end service lifecycle across heterogeneous and hybrid clouds. VMware’s Cloud Infrastructure Platform produces an entire virtual datacenter (VDC) that harnesses the software-defined infrastructure to deliver the most agile, cost-efficient cloud The information on the roadmap is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision. It is for information purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract.
2727 VMware’s Plan to Reduce Complexity and Simplify The Cloud vCloud Director (vCD) vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) Virtualization Platform • Content Catalog • Virtual Data Center • Intelligent Placement • Network Virtualization • High Governance Consumption • Self Service Portal • VM Lifecycle Management • Multi-Tenancy • Memory Clone The information on the roadmap is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision. It is for information purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract.
2828 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware vSphere customers w/ valid SnS contracts get SUSE Linux at NO COST 28 Lower TCO Proven and Reliable OS Increased Agility Broad ISV & Streamlined Support
2929 Additional Nuggets
3030 Need More Details for Your Upgrade? Visit the Upgrade Center! All Upgrade Resources in One Centralized Location
3131 Q and A
3232 vSphere Platform Features Summary  vSphere Configuration Maximum Increases • 2x increase from vSphere 5.1  Virtual Machine Compatibility ESXi 5.5 (vHW 10) • LSI SAS for Solaris 11, New CPU Enablement, AHCI Controller Support  Expanded vGPU and GP-GPU Support • Support for both Intel & AMD GPU • vMotion supported across different GPU vendors  Hot-Plug SSD PCIe Devices • Hot Add/Remove SSD Devices without any downtime  Support for Reliable Memory • Provider greater uptime and reliability for ESXi by protecting VMkernel & critical User Worlds  Enhancements for CPU C-States • Reducing power consumption
3333 vSphere Networking Features Summary  Enhancement to LACP feature • Number of Link Aggregation Group support on VDS increased to 64 • Number of hashing algorithms supported increased to 22  Enhanced SR-IOV • Communicate Port group specific properties to the virtual functions  Traffic Filtering • Helps drop or allow selected traffic  QoS Tagging • Provides Service level agreements to important traffic types by marking the packets  Packet Capture • Host level packet capture tool helps troubleshoot network related issues  40 Gig Support • Large bandwidth pipe to server
3434 vSphere Storage Features Summary  Support for 62TB VMDK • Virtual Machine’s VMDK can now be created or grown up to 62TB  16GB E2E support • Full end-to-end support for 16GB FC is now supported  vSphere Flash Read Cache • A more efficient way to utilized flash based devices in vSphere  MSCS supportability enhancements  vSphere Replication multiple points-in-time • Virtual Machines can now be easily recovered using the latest point-in-time snapshot  Storage vMotion and SDRS compatibility • Replicated Virtual Machines can now take advantage of both Storage vMotion and SDRS  VAAI UNMAP & VMFS Heap enhancements • Improvements made to benefit Virtual Machine space reclamations and avoiding stranded/dead disk space
3535 Other VMware Activities Related to This Session  HOL: HOL-SDC-1310 vSOM 101
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VMworld 2013: What's New in VMware vSphere?
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  • 1. What's New in VMware vSphere? Michael Adams, Vmware madams@vmware.com VSVC4605 #VSVC4605
  • 2. 22 Agenda  Launch Context and Product Set  vSphere 5.1 Quick Recap  vSphere 5.5 New Features  Announcements and Reminders  Q and A
  • 3. 33 VMware’s SDDC Architecture Software-Defined Data Center Abstract. Pool. Automate. Management and Automation Network and Security Compute Storage and Availability
  • 4. 44 VMware Top Level Cloud Infrastructure and Management Offerings vSphere Std vCOps Std vSphere Ent vCOps Std vSphere Ent+ vCOps Std vSOM Std $1,745 vSOM Ent $3,625 vSOM Ent+ $4,245 Virtualization; Insight on capacity and health • Enterprise (Emerging) • Commercial & SMB Customers Capability Private Cloud: Pooled, Automated, Self-service • Enterprise & Commercial • Premier SMB vSphere Ent+ vCD vC OPS Adv vCNS vSphere Ent + vCD vC OPS Ent vC SRM Ent vCNS vCAC Ent vCloud Suite ADV $7,495 vCloud Suite ENT $11,495 vCloud Suite STD $4,995 vSphere Ent+ vCD vCNS vC OPS Std vCAC AdvvCAC Std vSphere with Operations Management per CPU vCloud Suite per CPU
  • 5. 55 vSphere with Operations Management vSphere vCenter Server • Capacity planning – know how many days before capacity runs out so IT can continue to be responsive • Optimize efficiency – know on which virtual machines might be overprovisioned • Improve performance - faster root cause identification of emerging issues • Proven virtualization platform – for fully virtualized environments (including business critical applications) VMware vSphere The proven compute virtualization platform vSphere with Operations Management • World’s leading virtualization platform • Insight to workload capacity and health
  • 7. 77 vSphere Recap – What’s New in vSphere 5.1? Automation Core Services Security • vShield Endpoint* • Storage DRS and Profile-Driven Storage integration with VCD • Enhanced Auto Deploy • Data Protection • Replication* • vMotion w/o shared storage • 0 Downtime upgrades of VMware Tools Availability NetworkStorage • Enhanced Distributed Switch • SR-IOV support • Storage Appliance • Storage Space Reclamation for VDI • HW version 9 • 64 way SMP 1 TB VMs Compute • Single Sign On • vSphere Web Client • Enhanced vCenter Orchestrator • Capacity Optimization • Health and Performance Montioring *Now included at no charge with vSphere platform Management Services
  • 9. 99  Performance and Scale  App HA  Flash Read Cache  Replication  Backup and Recovery  Big Data Extensions vSphere 5.5: What’s New in 2013 New Features New Customer Benefits
  • 10. 1010 vSphere in 2013 – New Applications and Architectures vSphere Big Data Extensions – Optimize Hadoop Workloads and Extend Project Serengeti Pivotal and VMware vSphere – Building PaaS On-Premise OpenStack – Delivering Architecture Choices Latest Chip Set Support – Next Generation Intel® Xeon® processor E5 v2 Intel® Atom™ Processor C2000
  • 11. 1111 vSphere Performance and Scale Benefits Overview • Low latency application configuration • 2x Increase in Configuration Maximums • Up to 64 TB VMDKs • Low latency application optimization – tune vSphere • Support for even the largest business critical applications
  • 12. 1212 vSphere Configuration Maximums Increases  320 pCPU  4TB memory  16 NUMA Nodes  4096 vCPUs  … per ESXi host vSphere 5.1 vSphere 5.5 160 pCPU 320 pCPU 2TB Memory 4TB Memory 8 NUMA Nodes 16 NUMA Nodes 2048 vCPUs 4096 vCPUs
  • 13. 1313 Low Latency Sensitivity – Testing Proof
  • 14. 1414 vSphere App HA • Detect and recover from application or OS failure • Supports most common packaged applications (Exchange, SQL, Oracle, SharePoint, etc.) • vCloud Extensibility – APIs to Ecosystem • Simpler management from vCenter Server • Tier 1 application protection at scale • Lower TCO than traditional application specific cluster availability solutions vSphere OS APP OS APP VMware HA App Restart 1 2 3 Overview Benefits
  • 15. 1515 vSphere Flash Read Cache • Virtualized flash resource managed just like CPU and memory • Per-VM hypervisor-based read caching using server flash • Compatible with vMotion, DRS & HA • Accelerates performance for mission critical applications by up to 2x • Enables efficient use of server flash in virtual environments • Fully transparent read-caching – no host agents or application changes vSphere SAN/NAS CPU Pool Memory PoolFlash Pool New Accelerate performance Overview Benefits
  • 16. 1616 vSphere Big Data Extensions • vSphere extends support for Big Data workloads, including all major Hadoop distributions • Virtualize Hadoop on common vSphere infrastructure for unmatched flexibility • Separation of storage and compute enables elastic scaling and true multi-tenancy • Elastic scalability • Higher cluster utilization • Easy to use interface • Lower TCO through hardware consolidation • Enhanced HA/FT leveraging vSphereStorage Compute Current Hadoop: Combined Storage/ Compute Storage T1 T2 VM VM VMVM VM Elastic Scaling: Separation of Storage and Compute Hadoop Stack: vSphere extending to support Big Data workloads Physical Host Overview Benefits
  • 17. 1717 vSphere Replication • VM-level replication by the vSphere host • New Support for: • Multiple Point-In-Time Copies • Multiple Replication Appliances per vCenter Server • Storage vMotion • Low cost/efficient replication • More granular recovery options • DR scalability and flexibility across BCAs • Integration with SRM enables automated DR process vSphere vSphere Replication Site A (Primary) vSphere Site B (Recovery) Overview Benefits
  • 18. 1818 vSphere Data Protection is VMware’s Backup & Recovery Tool VMware vSphere Data deduplicated VDP From Powered by Architecture VDP provides proven, efficient and simple backup and recovery for small and midsize vSphere environments vSphere Data Protection (included with vSphere at no cost)  Deployed as a virtual appliance  Agent-less, image-level backup to disk  Integrated with the vSphere platform vSphere Data Protection Advanced (additional purchase)  All VDP capabilities plus:  4x greater scalability  Agent-based, application-awareness for Exchange and SQL  Easy upgrade from VDP Overview Benefits  Built for vSphere, based on EMC Avamar technology  4x more storage-efficient  6x faster recovery  Fast and easy deployment  Managed directly from the vSphere Web Client  Designed for the vSphere admin What’s new with VDP 5.5 • Direct to host recovery (no dependency on vCenter Server) • Individual .vmdk backup and restore • Detachable/re-mountable backup storage
  • 19. 1919 vCenter Server 5.5  vCenter Single Sign-On • Improved user experience in multi domain environments • Secure Database connectivity with Windows Authentication  vCenter Server Appliance • Scalability of embedded database (vPostgres) • Now supports up to 500 vSphere hosts / 5000 virtual machines  vCenter Databases • Official support for database clustering technologies
  • 20. 2020 vCenter Server 5.5  vSphere Web Client • Increased Platform Support • Added support for OS X • VM Console access • Deploy OVF Templates • Attach Client Devices • Enhanced Usability Experience • Drag and Drop • Filters • Recent Items
  • 21. 2121 The Best of the Rest  Platform • Virtual Machine Compatibility ESXi 5.5 (vHW 10) • Expanded vGPU and GP-GPU Support • Hot-Plug SSD PCIe Devices • Support for Reliable Memory • Enhancements for CPU C-States  Storage • Support for 62TB VMDK • 16GB E2E support • MSCS supportability enhancements • Storage vMotion and SDRS compatibility • VAAI UNMAP & VMFS Heap enhancements  Network • Enhancement to LACP feature • Enhanced SR-IOV • Traffic Filtering • QoS Tagging • Packet Capture • 40 Gig Support
  • 23. 2323 What’s Cookin’?  Where is all this great stuff?  Full support lifecycle  Convergence and Transition Plan – How does this impact vSphere? GOT SuSe?
  • 24. 2424 vSphere and vSphere with Operations Management Lineup Price (per CPU, license only) Features • Health Monitoring and Performance Analytics • High Availability, and Fault Tolerance • vMotion, and Storage vMotion • Host Profiles and Auto Deploy • Storage DRS, Profile-Driven Storage All editions include: Thin Provisioning, Update Manager, Storage APIs for Data Protection, Image Profile, and SLES Feature also available in vCenter Operations Standard • Capacity Management and Optimization • Operations Dashboard and Root Cause Analysis • I/O Controls (Network and Storage) and SR-IOV $1,745 $3,625 $4,245 vSphere with Operations Management Standard Enterprise Enterprise+ • Reliable Memory • Data Protection (backup) // and VM Data Replication • vShield Endpoint • Storage APIs for Array Integration, Multipathing • Distributed Resource Scheduler and Distributed Power Management • Big Data Extensions • Flash Read Cache • Distributed Switch Existing feature • App HA New feature
  • 25. 2525 vSphere 5.5 Support Lifecycle  Normal 5 year support would end 2016 (based on vSphere 5 starting in 2011)  Support will be extended to 2018 (full 5 year cycle)  Only applies to 5.5 (ESXi and vCenter Server)  Final date to be posted by the end of Q3 and will be based on GA date
  • 26. 2626 VMware’s Plan to Reduce Complexity and Simplify the Cloud vCloud Director (vCD) vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) Virtualization Platform Well governed Self-Service Delivery Cloud Administration Cloud Automation provides personalized, self-service delivery of application, infrastructure, and desktop services by fully automating the end-to-end service lifecycle across heterogeneous and hybrid clouds. VMware’s Cloud Infrastructure Platform produces an entire virtual datacenter (VDC) that harnesses the software-defined infrastructure to deliver the most agile, cost-efficient cloud The information on the roadmap is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision. It is for information purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract.
  • 27. 2727 VMware’s Plan to Reduce Complexity and Simplify The Cloud vCloud Director (vCD) vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) Virtualization Platform • Content Catalog • Virtual Data Center • Intelligent Placement • Network Virtualization • High Governance Consumption • Self Service Portal • VM Lifecycle Management • Multi-Tenancy • Memory Clone The information on the roadmap is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision. It is for information purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract.
  • 28. 2828 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware vSphere customers w/ valid SnS contracts get SUSE Linux at NO COST 28 Lower TCO Proven and Reliable OS Increased Agility Broad ISV & Streamlined Support
  • 30. 3030 Need More Details for Your Upgrade? Visit the Upgrade Center! All Upgrade Resources in One Centralized Location
  • 32. 3232 vSphere Platform Features Summary  vSphere Configuration Maximum Increases • 2x increase from vSphere 5.1  Virtual Machine Compatibility ESXi 5.5 (vHW 10) • LSI SAS for Solaris 11, New CPU Enablement, AHCI Controller Support  Expanded vGPU and GP-GPU Support • Support for both Intel & AMD GPU • vMotion supported across different GPU vendors  Hot-Plug SSD PCIe Devices • Hot Add/Remove SSD Devices without any downtime  Support for Reliable Memory • Provider greater uptime and reliability for ESXi by protecting VMkernel & critical User Worlds  Enhancements for CPU C-States • Reducing power consumption
  • 33. 3333 vSphere Networking Features Summary  Enhancement to LACP feature • Number of Link Aggregation Group support on VDS increased to 64 • Number of hashing algorithms supported increased to 22  Enhanced SR-IOV • Communicate Port group specific properties to the virtual functions  Traffic Filtering • Helps drop or allow selected traffic  QoS Tagging • Provides Service level agreements to important traffic types by marking the packets  Packet Capture • Host level packet capture tool helps troubleshoot network related issues  40 Gig Support • Large bandwidth pipe to server
  • 34. 3434 vSphere Storage Features Summary  Support for 62TB VMDK • Virtual Machine’s VMDK can now be created or grown up to 62TB  16GB E2E support • Full end-to-end support for 16GB FC is now supported  vSphere Flash Read Cache • A more efficient way to utilized flash based devices in vSphere  MSCS supportability enhancements  vSphere Replication multiple points-in-time • Virtual Machines can now be easily recovered using the latest point-in-time snapshot  Storage vMotion and SDRS compatibility • Replicated Virtual Machines can now take advantage of both Storage vMotion and SDRS  VAAI UNMAP & VMFS Heap enhancements • Improvements made to benefit Virtual Machine space reclamations and avoiding stranded/dead disk space
  • 35. 3535 Other VMware Activities Related to This Session  HOL: HOL-SDC-1310 vSOM 101
  • 38. What's New in VMware vSphere? Michael Adams, VMware VSVC4605 #VSVC4605