Tuesday, April 17, 2018

VMWare vSphere 6.7 is out.

Some new features of vSphere 6.7
-HTML 5 Client
        More features enabled such as vSAN and core storage.
-UNMAP Enhancements
        Able to adjust reclaim rate.  6.5 has a rate of 25MBps.  6.7 can go to 2GBps.
-vSAN 6.7
        QOS Resyncing of data.
        On-Disk Format 6
                -No more actual data moves or evacuation to upgrade a disk format.  Going forward, it will just be meta-data upgrades.
        FIPS 140-2 Encryption.