vSphere 6.0 new features

VMware vSphere 6  exciting new features that have just been announced so here is a list broken down by area.
vSphere Platform (including ESXi)
§  Increase in vSphere Host Configuration Maximums
§  480 Physical CPUs per Host
§  Up to 12 TB of Physical Memory
§  Up to 1000 VMs per Host
§  Up to 6000 VMs per Cluster
§  Virtual Hardware v11
§  128 vCPUs per VM
§  4 TB RAM per VM
§  Hot-add RAM now vNUMA aware
§  Serial and parallel port enhancements
§  A virtual machine can now have a maximum of 32 serial ports
§  Serial and parallel ports can now be removed
§  ESXi Account & Password Management
§  New ESXCLI commands to add/modify/remove local user accounts
§  Configurable account lockout policies
§  Password complexity setting via VIM API & vCenter Host Advanced System Settings
§  Improved Auditability of ESXi Admin Actions
§  Prior to vSphere 6.0, actions taken through vCenter by any user would show up as ‘vpxuser’ in ESXi logs.
§  In vSphere 6.0 actions taking through vCenter will show the actual username in the ESXi logs
§  Enhanced Microsoft Clustering (MSCS) Support
§  Support for Windows 2012 R2 and SQL 2012
§  Failover Clustering and AlwaysOn Availability Groups
§  IPv6 Support
§  PVSCSI & SCSI controller support
§  vMotion Support
§  Clustering across physical hosts with Physical Compatibility Mode RDMs (Raw Device Mapping)
§  Supported on Windows 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012 R2
§  Scalability Improvements
§  1000 Hosts per vCenter
§  10,000 VMs per vCenter
§  64 Hosts per cluster (including VSAN!)
§  6000 VMs per cluster
§  Linked Mode no longer requires MS ADAM
§  New Simplified Architecture with Platform Services Controller
§  Centralizes common services
§  Embedded or Centralized deployment models
§  Content Library
§  Repository for vApps, VM templates, and ISOs
§  Publisher/Subscriber model with two replication models
§  Allow content to be stored in one location and replicated out to “Subscriber” vCenters
§  Certificate Management
§  Certificate management for ESXi hosts & vCenter
§  New VMware Endpoint Certificate Service (VECS)
§  New VMware Certificate Authority
§  New vMotion Capabilities
§  Cross vSwitch vMotion
§  Cross vCenter vMotion
§  Long Distance vMotion
§  vMotion across L3 boundaries
§  VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLS)
§  Logical extension of virtualization into the storage world
§  Policy based management of storage on per-VM basis
§  Offloaded data services
§  Eliminates LUN management
§  Storage Policy-Based Management
§  Leverages VASA API to intelligently map storage to policies and capabilities
§  Polices are assigned to VMs and ensure storage performance & availability
§  Fault Tolerance
§  Multi-vCPU FT for up to 4 vCPUs
§  Enhanced virtual disk format support (thin & thick disks)
§  Ability to hot configure FT
§  Greatly increased FT host compatibility
§  Backup support with snapshots through VADP
§  Now uses copies of VMDKs for added storage redundancy (allowed to be on separate datastores)
§  vSphere Replication
§  End-to-end network compression
§  Network traffic isolation
§  Linux file system quiescing
§  Fast full sync
§  Move replicas without full sync
§  IPv6 support
§  vSphere Data Protection
§  VDP Advanced has been rolled into VDP and is no longer available for purchase (the features of VDP-A are now available for free to Essentials Plus and higher editions of vSphere!)
§  Protects up to 800 VMs per vCenter
§  Up to 20 VDP appliances per vCenter
§  Replicate backup data between VDP & EMC Avamar
§  EMC Data Domain support with DD Boost
§  Automated backup verification


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