VMworld 2012 San Francisco, has been and gone in the last
week, and below is a quick compilation of exciting and noteworthy news, and some
links for more information:
Exciting news:
> VMware has killed the vRAM
memory tax with vSphere 5.1 - hurray! [1]
> VMware vSphere Data Protection
(VDP) replaces vSphere Data Recovery, and is built on EMC’s Avamar
deduplicating backup technology [2]
> New 5.1 versions for vSphere, vCloud Director, vCloud
Networking and Security, Site
Recovery Manager [4]
> Best of
VMworld 2012 awards including the winners - FalconStor RecoverTrac 2.5, Layer 7 API Portal, HotLink Hybrid Express, Tintri VMstore T540 with
Tintri OS 1.4, Atlantis
ILIO Diskless VDI, Piston
Enterprise OpenStack, DynamicOps
Cloud Suite 4.5, Intigua
Systems Management Virtualization [5]
Other noteworthy
news regards vSphere 5.1 / ESXi 5.1:
> Anticipated
release date September 11th!
[3]
> Shared nothing vMotion live
migration (running VMs can be
teleported between servers using their own locally attached storage) [1]
> Virtual
Machine Version 9 hardware
[1]
> Any VM
that was generated on ESX 3.5 or later can run atop ESXi 5.1 unchanged [1]
> Support
for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 [1]
> VMs now
support up to 64 vCPUs
(up from 32), whilst memory support is unchanged at 1TB/VM (identical to Hyper-V 2012 with up to 64 vCPU and 1 TB memory per VM) [1]
> Support
for over 1 Million IOPs
per VM [1]
> New and
improved CPU virtualization technique for VMs: virtualized hardware
virtualization or VHV
for “near native access to
the physical CPU” [1]
> A new
web-based client that can be used instead of the vSphere Client Console, and
snaps into vCloud Director [1]
> A new
Standard Edition with Operations Manager [1]
> Costs: Essentials $495 across 3
hosts with maximum two sockets each, Essentials Plus $4,495 across those same 3 hosts, Standard $995 per socket,
Standard with Operations
Manager $1,995 per socket, Enterprise Edition $2’875 per socket, Enterprise Plus $3’495 per socket [1]
Sources/Links:
> VMware Unveils New SMB Offerings For Your Journey to the
Cloud
> VMworld2012 The Cube YouTube Video Playlist (SiliconANGLE)
> VMworld2012 The Cube YouTube Video Playlist (SiliconANGLE)
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