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Interview Q&AVSPHERE 6.0

vSphere 6.0 Features

vSphere 6.0 Features:

vSphere Platform (including ESXi)

  • Increase in vSphere Host Configuration Maximums
    • 480 Physical CPUs per Host
    • Up to 12 TB of Physical Memory
    • Up to 1024 VMs per Host [Updated from 1000 per Product Management]
    • Up to 8000 VMs per Cluster [Updated from 6000 per Product Management]
  • Virtual Hardware v11
    • 128 vCPUs per VM
    • 4 TB RAM per VM
    • Hot-add RAM now vNUMA aware
    • Serial and parallel port enhancements
      • A virtual machine can now have a maximum of 32 serial ports
      • Serial and parallel ports can now be removed
  • ESXi Account & Password Management
    • New ESXCLI commands to add/modify/remove local user accounts
    • Configurable account lockout policies
    • Password complexity setting via VIM API & vCenter Host Advanced System Settings
  • Improved Auditability of ESXi Admin Actions
    • Prior to vSphere 6.0, actions taken through vCenter by any user would show up as ‘vpxuser’ in ESXi logs.
    • In vSphere 6.0 actions taking through vCenter will show the actual username in the ESXi logs
  • Enhanced Microsoft Clustering (MSCS) Support
    • Support for Windows 2012 R2 and SQL 2012
    • Failover Clustering and AlwaysOn Availability Groups
    • IPv6 Support
    • PVSCSI & SCSI controller support
    • vMotion Support
      • Clustering across physical hosts with Physical Compatibility Mode RDMs (Raw Device Mapping)
      • Supported on Windows 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012 R2

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vCenter 6.0

  • Scalability Improvements
    • 1000 Hosts per vCenter
    • 10,000 VMs per vCenter
    • 64 Hosts per cluster (including VSAN!)
    • Up to 8000 VMs per Cluster [Updated from 6000 per Product Management]
    • Linked Mode no longer requires MS ADAM
  • New Simplified Architecture with Platform Services Controller
    • Centralizes common services
    • Embedded or Centralized deployment models
  • Content Library
    • Repository for vApps, VM templates, and ISOs
    • Publisher/Subscriber model with two replication models
    • Allow content to be stored in one location and replicated out to “Subscriber” vCenters

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  • Certificate Management
    • Certificate management for ESXi hosts & vCenter
    • New VMware Endpoint Certificate Service (VECS)
    • New VMware Certificate Authority
  • New vMotion Capabilities
    • Cross vSwitch vMotion
    • Cross vCenter vMotion
    • Long Distance vMotion
    • vMotion across L3 boundaries

Storage & Availability

  • VMware Virtual Volumes (VVOLS)

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  • Logical extension of virtualization into the storage world
  • Policy based management of storage on per-VM basis
  • Offloaded data services
  • Eliminates LUN management
  • Storage Policy-Based Management
    • Leverages VASA API to intelligently map storage to policies and capabilities
    • Polices are assigned to VMs and ensure storage performance & availability
  • Fault Tolerance
    • Multi-vCPU FT for up to 4 vCPUs
    • Enhanced virtual disk format support (thin & thick disks)
    • Ability to hot configure FT
    • Greatly increased FT host compatibility
    • Backup support with snapshots through VADP
    • Now uses copies of VMDKs for added storage redundancy (allowed to be on separate datastores)
  • vSphere Replication
    • End-to-end network compression
    • Network traffic isolation
    • Linux file system quiescing
    • Fast full sync
    • Move replicas without full sync
    • IPv6 support
  • vSphere Data Protection
    • VDP Advanced has been rolled into VDP and is no longer available for purchase (the features of VDP-A are now available for free to Essentials Plus and higher editions of vSphere!)
    • Protects up to 800 VMs per vCenter
    • Up to 20 VDP appliances per vCenter
    • Replicate backup data between VDP & EMC Avamar
    • EMC Data Domain support with DD Boost
    • Automated backup verification
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