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Page 2 - What’s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform; Table of Contents

What’s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R / 2 Table of Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 vSphere Hypervisor Enhancements . . . . . . . ....

Page 3 - Introduction; Scalability Improvements; There are two new settings available in ESXi; on each ESXi host. In vSphere 6.0, this has been moved to an entry in

T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R / 3 What’s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform Introduction VMware vSphere® 6.0 introduces many enhancements to VMware vSphere Hypervisor, VMware virtual machines, VMware vCenter Server™, virtual storage, and virtual networking. This paper will discuss these ...

Page 4 - Smart Card Authentication to DCUI; Horizon with GRID vGPU; NVIDIA GRID; vGPU

T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R / 4 What’s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform The second mode is “strict lockdown mode.” In this mode, DCUI is stopped. There is also a new functionality called “exception users.” These are local accounts or Microsoft Active Directory accounts with permissio...

Page 5 - Horizon with GRID vDGA; Microsoft Windows

T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R / 5 What’s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform Horizon with GRID vDGA NVIDIA GRID with Horizon Virtual Dedicated Graphics Acceleration (vDGA) is ideal for 3D graphics–intensive applications. vDGA is highly recommended for dedicated one-to-one GPU mapping and ...

Page 6 - Virtual Machine Enhancements; Virtual Machine Compatibility Level with ESXi 6.0; vNUMA Enhancements; A full list of supported guest OSs can be found at

T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R / 6 What’s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform Virtual Machine Enhancements Virtual Machine Compatibility Level with ESXi 6.0 vSphere 6.0 introduces a new virtual machine compatibility level with several new features such as support for 128 vCPUs and 4TB of R...

Page 7 - Windows Server Failover Clustering Enhancements; vCenter Server Enhancements; vCenter Server Architecture Changes

T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R / 7 What’s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform Windows Server Failover Clustering Enhancements Support for workloads that must be protected using Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) has been improved. In addition to the currently supported platforms, Mi...

Page 8 - Platform Services Controller; Enhanced Linked Mode; vCenter; Certificate Management

T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R / 8 What’s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform Platform Services Controller The PSC includes common services used across VMware vCloud Suite®. This includes VMware vCenter Single Sign-On™, licensing, and certificate management. PSCs replicate information such...

Page 9 - vCenter Server Appliance; Virtual; Hosts per vCenter Server System

T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R / 9 What’s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform vCenter Server Appliance vCenter Server Appliance now has the same scalability numbers as the Windows installable vCenter Server: 1,000 hosts and 10,000 virtual machines. This is supported with the embedded Postg...

Page 10 - vSphere Web Client; Recent Tasks; vSphere vMotion

T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R / 1 0 What’s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform vSphere Web Client vSphere Web Client includes significant performance and usability improvements. The performance improvements include login times that are up to 13 times faster, right-click menus that are vis...

Page 11 - vCenter Server; Virtual Machine Network; VDS A; VM; VDS B; VM; VM

T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R / 1 1 What’s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform vCenter Server Virtual Machine Network (L2 Connectivity) vSphere vMotion Network VM VDS A vCenter Server VM VDS B VM vSphere vMotion VM Figure 7. VMware vSphere vMotion Enhanced Capabilities When a virtual mach...

Page 12 - VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance Enhancements

T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R / 1 2 What’s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform Figure 8. Enabling vSphere vMotion Migration Across Longer Distances With these dynamic new vSphere vMotion features, vSphere administrators now can simultaneously change the compute resource, storage resource,...

Page 13 - vSphere High Availability Enhancements

T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R / 1 3 What’s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform In addition, improvements have been made to vSphere FT virtual disk support and host compatibility requirements. Prior versions required a very specific virtual disk type: eager-zeroed thick. They also had very...

Page 14 - vSphere Storage Enhancements; Virtual Volumes

T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R / 1 4 What’s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform Figure 9. Multisite Content Library Access Capabilities This “store once, share many” architecture reduces the time associated with distributing templates manually, enabling more time to be spent performing mor...

Page 15 - vSphere Data Protection Enhancements

T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R / 1 5 What’s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform Through the integration of VMware vSphere API for Storage Awareness™, storage array capabilities are pushed through the vSphere stack and are surfaced in the vCenter Server management interface. Using virtual m...

Page 16 - VMware vSphere Replication Enhancements

T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R / 1 6 What’s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform VMware vSphere Replication Enhancements VMware vSphere Replication™, the VMware proprietary replication engine, provides data protection and disaster recovery for the vSphere platform by replicating virtual mac...

Page 17 - vSphere Networking Enhancements; vSphere Network I/O Control Enhancements; About the Authors; Follow Mike on

T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R / 1 7 What’s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform vSphere Networking Enhancements vSphere Network I/O Control Enhancements vSphere Network I/O Control Version 3 enables administrators or service providers to reserve—that is, guarantee—bandwidth to a vNIC in a ...