What's new in VMware vSphere 5.5

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