vSphere 6: vMotion enhancements
Don't we all remember when we witnessed our first vMotion and realized which awesome things this made possible in virtualization?! In vSphere 6 vMotion even got better! vMotion version history…
vSphere 6: mClock scheduler & reservations
“Storage IO Controls – New support for per Virtual Machine storage reservations to guarantee minimum service levels.” Is listed as one of the new features of vSphere 6.
The new mClock scheduler was introduced with vSphere 5.5 and as you might have guessed, it remains the default IO scheduler in vSphere 6 (don’t mind the typo in the description).
Besides limits and shares, the scheduler now supports reservations. Let’s do a quick recap on resource management.
vSphere 6: Multi-Processor Fault Tolerance (SMP-FT)
VMworld 2008; VMware announced Fault Tolerance (FT) in ESX 4 as a new feature that allows continuous availability for selected virtual machines (VM). FT is a technology that allows continuous…
vSphere 6: New features!
Updated: As of today (12th of March 2015) vSphere 6 is downloadable! Login to the VMware portal in order to download the following newly released products:
- vSphere 6
- vSOM 6
- vCloud Suite 6
- SRM 6
- VSAN 6
- VMware Integrated OpenStack 1.0
Hear, hear!!! VMware vSphere 6 is here! 🙂
After a period of extensive testing, including a ‘public’ beta test, VMware vSphere 6 is launched today (February the 2nd)!!!
It’s been a while since the last major version release as listed in the table below. vSphere 6 should provide the next step of innovation in server virtualization.
| Version | Release date |
| vSphere 6 | 12 march 2015 |
| vSphere 5.5 | 22 sep 2013 |
| vSphere 5.1 | 10 sep 2012 |
| vSphere 5.0 | 24 aug 2011 |
| vSphere 4.1 | 13 jul 2010 |
New features
Check all the new features listed (as found on the VMware website) below: