vSphere 5.5 introduces new features for Low latency applications which can be like databases, high performance computing (HPC) or stock trading systems. Those applications and latency sensitive workloads, where the network packets cannot have delay. Usually a in-memory database applications or trading applications. Requirements: Fast response time Predictable response times (jitter) VMware vSphere 5.5 Low […]
VMware vSphere 5.5 Networking New Features
VMware vSphere 5.5 released brought many new features in virtual networking. The details about NSX (network virtualization) will be covered in separate post as this is completely new technology. In this post we’ll just covers the enhancements and new features brought with vSphere 5.5. If you don’t know what is LACP for. LACP allows to select […]
VMware vSphere 5.5 Application High Availability – AppHA
VMware has introduced new Application HA in vSphere 5.5. It is a new feature which enables to protect tier one applications like SQL, or IIS against failures. Those applications are monitored and in case their service fails, the App HA is able to detect and restart this application. The product present itself as a virtual […]
VMware vSphere 5.5 Storage New Features
VMware vSphere 5.5 introducing larger virtual disk size (up to 62Tb) which requires ESXi 5.5, where existing VMDKs can be grown (offline). Those large VMDKs are supported also on the newly released vSAN datastores. You can grow the VMDKs, but for now its an offline process. VMware has it on the roadmap on the future […]
VMware VSAN introduced in vSphere 5.5 – How it works and what’s the requirements?
VMware vSAN allows presenting locally attached storage (SSD and HDD) to create clustered datastore. VMware vSAN is a software feature is built into the hypervisor. To be able to leverage VMware vSAN, you’ll need to associate at least one HDD and one SSD in each of the servers participating in the vSAN cluster, where the […]
VMware vSphere Replication 5.5 – what’s new?
With the recent release of VMware vSphere 5.5, the VMware vSphere Replication 5.5 has been released as well. There are new features present in vSphere Replication 5.5, which are really helpful and that are giving the possibility to construct very advanced replication scenarios for remote offices. Those remote offices do not need vCenter server installed. […]
VMware vSphere 5.5 vFlash Read Cache with VFFS
New version of VMware vSphere has introduced VMware vFlash Read cache, which enables you to use local SSD devices pooled together forming a pool of storage tier. The vFlash is integrated with vMotion, HA and DRS. The solution, the vFlash caching software, is tightly integrated into the hypevizor (placed into the data path), as an […]
VMware VDP 5.5 and VDP Advanced – With a DR for VDP!
VMware Releasing major updates to almost all vCloud Suite products. vSphere 5.5 has been announced and I already covered quite a few products and new features. In this article you’ll see what has been prepared in VMware VDP 5.5 and VDP Advanced. vSphere Data Protection, based on Amavar’s code, is a backup appliance. vSphere Data Protection […]
vCD 5.5 – VMware vCloud Director 5.5 New and enhanced features
Together with the all the announcements around new vSphere 5.5 and vCloud Suite, also vCloud Director 5.5 (VCD 5.5 ) introduces several improvements and enhancements. One of the new enhancement is the content catalog usability improvements, where sharing capabilities are improved together with possibility to add remote catalogs or catalogs son external storage. vCD 5.5 […]
VMware vSphere 5.5 – Storage enhancements and new configuration maximums
VMware vSphere 5.5 released and brings many enhancements, which are introduced with new virtual hardware version 10 (VMX-10). It brings new configuration maximums for ESXi hosts, clusters and VMs, by introducing Virtual Hardware version 10 (vmx-10) which allows to use larger VMDKs, larger number of CPUs and memory. Virtual Machine Hardware Version 10 (vmx-10) – There […]
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