VMworld 2014/What's New in vSphere

What's New in vSphere?
Michael Adams, VMware - madams@vmware.com
 * funny email address: "madams"

vSphere 6.0 Beta - http://www.vmware.com/go/vspherebetaq2

Agenda:
 * Foundation Recap
 * State of the Union
 * Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO)
 * New Workloads - Pivotal CF, Big Data
 * Tech Previews
 * vCD Transition
 * EOA Reminders

vSphere 5.5 - what's new in 2013:
 * app ha
 * flash read cache
 * replication improvements
 * backup and recovery improvements
 * big data extensions

new customer benefits:
 * high availability now tied to specific applications
 * accelerates performance for mission critical applications by up to 2x
 * ability to run big data applications on vSphere

vSphere Go to Market:
 * vCloud Suite
 * vSphere A La Carte
 * vSphere with Operations Management - with insight into capacity and health

Announcing at VMworld 2014:
 * vSphere 5.5 Update 2
 * vCloud Suite 5.8
 * vSphere for ROBO
 * vSphere Beta (6.0)

New in vCloud Suite 5.8:
 * Improved business continuity and disaster recovery
 * Enhanced next-generation features

Future:
 * vMotion across vCenter Servers
 * Long-distance vMotion (coast to coast) - up to 100 ms RTT
 * Fault tolerance for Multi-Processor VMs
 * App HA and Component Protection

Content Library
 * Bringing into vSphere
 * Store and sync VMs, OVFs and ISOs
 * Sync between multiple vCenter Servers

Virtual Data Center (VDC)
 * Bringing into vSphere
 * Aggregate resources and simplify the VM provisioning experience
 * aggregates compute clusters, storage clusters, networks and policies
 * create unified resource pool for VM creation

RIP:
 * vSphere 4.x and Lab Manager EOS
 * Heartbeat EOA and EOS Annoucned
 * SLES License included with Vmware EOA and EOS Announced