New features of VMware vSphere 6.0

vSphere 6.0 is packed with more than 650 new features and improvements that will allow customers to virtualize applications with self-assurance by scaling performance and providing breakthrough accessibility, storage productivities for VMs, and simplified management for the virtual data center. vSphere 6.0 is purpose built for both scale-up and scale-out apps, including newer big data, cloud, mobile, and social applications.

The following are some of the new features in VMware vSphere:

• Amplified scalability: ESXi hosts are enhanced with the following:
  • 480 CPUs
  • 12 TB of memory

  VMs are enhanced with these:

  • 128 vCPUs
  • 4 TB (vRAM)
  • 2,048 VMs per ESXi host
  • 64 nodes per cluster
• Lingering support: Features support for the latest model of enhanced x86-based systems and guest OS.
• Graphics (NVIDIA GRID vGPU): This feature offers all the aids of NVIDIA hardware-accelerated graphics as virtualized explanations.
• Immediate Clone: This feature lays the basis for rapidly cloning and...