Recently, at VMware World Barcelona 2016, the much anticipated announcement of the next version of vSphere was released. ย Excitement certainly builds for the availability of this new version of vSphere which touts many new advancements in technology especially in the arena of vSphere vCenter server itself. ย The focus with the next generation of vSphere is on a better end user experience, security and universal platform services. ย VMware vSphere 6.5 announced download it soon we hope!
Some of the new features that make vSphere 6.5 and especially vCenter server 6.5 especially powerful are the following:
New vCenter Appliance 6.5
- Integrated update manager in VCSA appliance (this was one of the last things that Windows vCenter had over VCSA but not any longer).
- File based backup and recovery
- New backup and restore is built in that allows customers to backup appliances directly using VAMI or by way of API
- Also backs up both VUM and auto deploy
- Native VCSA high availability
- Active, Passive and witness nodes!
- Performance improvements of 2X to 3X.
- Even more powerful REST API integration that makes managing and administering vSphere much more powerful
- An all new HTML5 web client that should finally give us the web interface that we have been looking for which compares to the speed of the vSphere C# client.
- New migration utility that will help migrate from vCenter server 5.5 and 6.0
- Will also migrate VUM (update manager) data across along with baselines, etc
- Improved appliance management
- New HTML interface that details all the important metrics for your vCenter appliance
- New Security!
- New secure boot model to protect both the hypervisor and guest OS’es
- VM-level disk encryption
- Encrypted vMotion
- Enhanced audit-quality logging
- Integrated container support
Download the new version
So far, the evaluations and binaries haven’t come available as of yet, however, keep a check on the official download link as they may appear soon!
https://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere.html?src=vmw_so_vex_pbrar_70
vSphere 6.5 Hands On Labs
https://www.vmware.com/go/try-vsom-hol
Thoughts
There is no doubt about it, this is shaping up to be an exciting release for sure! ย Bookmark our post hereย VMware vSphere 6.5 announced download as we will be keeping it up to dateย we find out more!
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