26 agosto 2013

What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.5

La nueva version de vSphere 5.5 y de ESXi 5.5 duplica algunos de los
maximos de la version 5.1.
De especial interes los maximos del appliance de vCenter que ahora permite 500 host ESXi y 5000 virtual machines; mayor compatibilidad para los MSCS, discos VMDK y RDM de hasta 62 TB woooow!

El resumen de las mejoras:

Hot-pluggable SSDPCIe devices
Supportfor Reliable Memory Technology
Enhancements to CPUC-states
Virtual machine compatibility withVMware ESXi 5.5
Expanded supportfor hardware-accelerated graphics vendor
Graphic acceleration supportfor Linux guest operating systems
vCenter Single Sign-On Server security enhancements
vSphere Web Client platform support andUI improvements
vCenter ServerAppliance configuration maximum increases
Simplified vSphereAppHAapplication monitoring
vSphereDRS virtual machine–virtual machine affinity rule enhancements
vSphere BigData Extensions, a new feature that deploys and managesHadoop clusters on vSphere    
from within vCenter vSphere 5.5 also includes the following storage-related enhancements:
Supportfor 62TBVMDK
MSCS updates
vSphere 5.1 enhancements
16GB E2E support
PDLAutoRemove
vSphere Replication interoperability and multi-point-in-time snapshotretention
vSphere 5.5 also introduces the following networking-related enhancements:
Improved LACP capabilities
Traffic filtering
Quality of Service tagging

Mas info en el doc oficial:
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Platform-Whats-New.pdf