What’s new in VMware vSphere 5.5
With the release of vSphere 5.5 it might be time to take a quick look at what is new, and determine if there are compelling reasons to pursue 5.5. vSphere 5.5 is being called vSphere 2x because many of the configuration maximums have doubled.
- Increased Maximum RAM and vCPUs per Host
- Increased maximum supported RAM from 2TB to 4TB
- Increased logical CPUs per host from 160 to 320
- Increased vCPU per host
- Increased from 2,048 to 4,096
- Increased VMDK file size
- Increased from 2TB to 62TB for both VMS-5 and NFS
Other advancements include;
- Increased NUMA support
- Support for CPU C-States
- Scalability Enhancements for the free vSphere Hypervisor
- Improved network performance
- Expanded GPU support
- APP HA
- Latency Sensitivity
- vCenter SSO
- BDE (Big Data Extensions) to allow deployment and management of Hadoop clusters. Yayy!
- Traffic filtering enhancements
For more detail on these enhancements, please refer to the following links;
Summary of what’s new from VMware Blogs
Windows IT Pro – top 10 features
VMware KB on 5.5 – what’s new
