What’s New Features in VMware Vsphere 5.0
Here are some of the key features of VMware Vsphere 5.0,
1. Convergence. vSphere 5.0 is the first vSphere release built exclusively on the vSphere ESXi 5.0 hypervisor architecture as the host platform.
2. VMware vSphere Auto Deploy. VMware vSphere Auto Deploy simplifies the task of managing ESXi installation and upgrade for hundreds of machines.
3. New Virtual machine capabilities. 32-way virtual SMP, 1TB virtual machine RAM, Software support for 3D graphics, and more.
4. Expanded support for VMware Tools versions. VMware Tools from vSphere 4.x is supported in virtual machines running on vSphere 5.0 hosts.
5. Storage DRS. This feature delivers the DRS benefits of resource aggregation, automated initial placement, and bottleneck avoidance to storage.
6. Profile-driven storage. This solution allows you to have greater control and insight into characteristics of your storage resources.
7. VMFS5. VMFS5 is a new version of vSphere Virtual Machine File System that offers improved scalability and performance, and provides Internationalization support.
8. Storage vMotion snapshot support. Allows Storage vMotion of a virtual machine in snapshot mode with associated snapshots.
9. vSphere Web Client. A new browser-based user interface that works across Linux and Windows platforms.
1 vSphere High Availability. VMware High Availability has been transformed into a cloud-optimized availability platform.
11 vCenter Server Appliance. A vCenter Server implementation running on a pre-configured Linux-based virtual appliance.
