vSphere 6 Announcements

Bellow is a brief transcript of VMware vSphere 6 related announcements. The list of new features may not be complete because I have noted just features important and interesting for me as vSphere Architect designing datacenter infrastructures.

Disclaimer: I'm not responsible for any errors and inaccuracies in the transcript bellow.

vSphere 6 New Features

• vSphere HA (High Availability) Cluster supports up to 64 hosts
• vSphere FT (Fault Tolerance) supports up to 4 vCPUs
• VM supports up to 128 vCPU/4TB vRAM
• vMotion across vCenters
• Long Distance vMotion (should work up to 100 ms of round trip time)
• VVOLs released
• NFS 4.1 support multipathing and Kerberos Authentication
• Up to 2x increase in concurrent vCenter operations
• 10x faster vCenter operations
• vCenter Server Appliance supports 1,000 ESXi hosts and 10,000 VMs
• vSphere WEB Client 5x faster
• Platform Service Controller (PSC) introduces. SSO and SSL Certification are sub components of PSC. 

VSAN 6 New Features

• All flash architecture supported
• Limits increased: 64 hosts, 2000 VMs per host, 32 snapshots per VM, vDisk up to 62 TB
• Rack Awareness (Fault Domains)
• Health Checks

Cloud New Features

• VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) - very tightly integrated vSphere 6 with Open Stack Cloud Management layer
• Open Stack fully supported by VMware and included in support fees

You can check out VMware Online Announcement recording at http://bcove.me/m0amsphc

List of other What's new blog posts I found very useful ...

• vSphere 6.0 finally announced!
• What’s new in vSphere 6?
• VSPHERE 5 IS DEAD, LONG LIVE VSPHERE 6
• vSphere 6 Features – New Config Maximums, Long Distance vMotion and FT for 4vCPUs 
• vSphere 6.0 -Difference between vSphere 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 and vSphere 6.0

Other vExpert's vSphere 6 related blog posts ...

vExperts participating in vSphere beta program wrote lot of blog posts about various vSphere 6 topics. All these blog posts are aggregated at 

http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2015/02/vsphere-6-0-vexpert-blog-articles.html

Warning: I strongly believe that all bloggers are doing great job but don't trust everything written in the internet and validate any information with VMware official documentation. 

Please, let me know if I missed or misunderstood something important.