vSphere 8 vMotion Improvements

vSphere 8 vMotion Improvements

vSphere 8 was announced at VMware Explore 2022 in San Francisco. Part of this new major release are vMotion updates. vMotion is extensively developed to support new workloads and is…
vMotion Enhancements in vSphere 7

vMotion Enhancements in vSphere 7

The vSphere vMotion feature enables customers to live-migrate workloads from source to destination ESXi hosts. Over time, we have developed vMotion to support new technologies. The vSphere 7 release is…
vMotion Deep Dive Series

vMotion Deep Dive Series

In my latest blog posts, we discussed the vSphere vMotion process in detail. Those blog posts are now accompanied by light board videos (including subtitles/closed captions!). Be sure to check…
vSphere 6: vMotion enhancements

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: New features!

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)!!!

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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: