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This limitation alone knocked it out of consideration for serious vSphere admins. With vSphere 5.1, the vCSA scaled to just 5 hosts and up to 50 virtual machines. In vSphere 5.5, VMware continues to push admins to use the vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) by making it more marketable than ever before. #3 vCSA improvements allow scaling up to 500 hosts and 5000 VMs This solution will be strongly positioned for read-intensive workloads such as VDI. This technology allows for a write-through of data so the write traffic doesn’t not impede with the effectiveness of the cache. It’s fully supported by VMware for applications like vMotion, HA, and DRS and transparent to the VMs and apps that use it. VMware’s Flash Read Cache is a read-cache that requires local SSD on each host where it is enabled. With server-side, host-based caching a hot topic at VMworld 2013, VMware now offers their own solution (competitive with Promixal Data, Pernixdata, and Infinio). #2 Flash Read Cache solution launched for read-intensive workloads The VSAN beta is in public beta and available at –.
Vmware vcenter server 5.5 plus#
While the feature set is built into ESXi, the VSAN functionality will be sold as a standalone offering, and not included with, for example, a vSphere Enterprise Plus license. VMware says that primary use cases will be for VDI, test/dev, big data, and a disaster recovery target. Also, this technology is capable of automatic provisioning of local storage since you add it to the cluster for ease of deployment. Those hosts will need both traditional and unused local disk as well as local SSD drives reserved for the use of VSAN. VSAN is actually a feature of the vSphere/ESXi hypervisor that can be enabled to provide redundant and fully supported storage across the local disks of up to 8 of your existing ESXi hosts.
Vmware vcenter server 5.5 software#
VMware’s expansion into Software Defined Storage (SDS) is the new Virtual Storage Area Network (VSAN) available with vSphere 5.5. I’ll throw in a couple of vCloud features as well because they really are that exciting: #1 VSAN available in vSphere 5.5 for auto provisioning of local storage Let’s jump right into the most important features of vSphere 5.5. In other words, vSphere 5.5 is a significant feature release, and not a a run-of-the-mill release. Unlike other software vendors, when VMware releases a new point release like 5.1 and 5.5, there are major new features packed inside and not just a bunch of patches boiled into a ‘service pack’ release. Top 10 Most Important Features in vSphere 5.5 Every VMware admin will want to read what follows - the top 10 features in the brand-new vSphere 5.5.