Identifying what's new in vSphere 6

vSphere 6 is the latest release of VMware's virtual datacenter platform. This release includes features that provide increased scalability, enhanced security, increased availability, and simplified management of the virtual datacenter infrastructure. A few of the new features and enhancements include:

  • New vCenter Architecture to simplify deployment and management of authentication and SSL certificates
  • Cluster scalability increased to 64 hosts and 8,000 VMs
  • Fault Tolerance (FT) enhancements to support virtual machines with up to four vCPUs
  • Virtual Volumes (VVOL) providing object-based policy managed virtual machine aware storage
  • NFS v4.1 support for NFS authentication and multipath support
  • vMotion enhanced to support ...

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