What's new in VMware vSphere 6.0.0
May 14, 2015
- VSPHERE HYPERVISOR ENHANCEMENTS:
- Scalability Improvements:
- VMware ESXi™ 6.0 has dramatically increased the scalability of the platform. With vSphere Hypervisor 6.0, clusters can scale to as many as 64 hosts, up from 32 in previous releases. With 64 hosts in a cluster, vSphere 6.0 can support 8,000 virtual machines in a single cluster. This enables greater consolidation ratios, more efficient use of VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler™ (vSphere DRS), and fewer clusters that must be separately managed. Each vSphere Hypervisor 6.0 instance can support as many as 480 logical CPUs, 12TB of RAM, and 1,024 virtual machines. By leveraging the newest hardware advances, ESXi 6.0 enables the virtualization of applications that were once thought to be nonvirtualizable.
- ESXi Security Enhancements:
- Account Management
- Account Lockout
- Password Complexity Rules
- Improved Auditability of ESXi Administrator Actions
- Flexible Lockdown Modes
- Smart Card Authentication to DCUI
- NVIDIA GRID SUPPORT:
- Horizon with GRID vGPU
- Horizon with GRID vDGA
- VIRTUAL MACHINE ENHANCEMENTS:
- Virtual Machine Compatibility Level with ESXi 6.0
- vNUMA Enhancements
- Serial and Parallel Port Enhancements
- Expanded Guest OS Support
- Windows Server Failover Clustering Enhancements
- VCENTER SERVER ENHANCEMENTS:
- vCenter Server Architecture Changes
- Platform Services Controller
- Enhanced Linked Mode
- Certificate Management
- vCenter Server Appliance
- vSphere Web Client
- vSphere vMotion
- VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance Enhancements
- vSphere High Availability Enhancements
- Multisite Content Library
- VSPHERE STORAGE ENHANCEMENTS:
- Virtual Volumes
- vSphere Data Protection Enhancements
- VMware vSphere Replication Enhancements
- VSPHERE NETWORKING ENHANCEMENTS:
- vSphere Network I/O Control Enhancements
- vSphere Multiple TCP/IP Stacks