Tag Archives: vSphere

What’s New in VMware vSphere 6.0: vMotion Enhancements

VMware vSphere 6 provides some vMotion Enhancements. With vSphere 6.0 vMotion is being expanded to: vMotion across vCenter Servers. vMotion across virtual switches. Long Distance vMotion. Replication-Assisted vMotion. vMotion across vCenter Servers vSphere 6 introduces support for Cross vCenter vMotion and possibility to change compute, storage, networks, and management between data centers without disruption. The following settings… Read More »

VASA and VAAI - important vSphere features?

This post covers two important vSphere features: VMware vSphere API for Array Integration (VAAI) and VMware vSphere API for Storage Awareness (VASA). After reading this post, you will know answers for the following questions: What is VAAI and what does this feature require? How to determine if my storage supports VAAI? What are the fundamental operations used VAAI?… Read More »

What’s New in VMware vSphere 6.0: Multi-CPU Fault Tolerance

This post covers Fault Tolerance (FT) improvements available in vSphere 6. I am so happy that at last Fault Tolerance (vSMP supported) can be used to protect the business critical systems. Just for a quick reminder what are limitations of Fault Tolerance available in vSphere 4.0-5.5: Only 1 vCPU per FT virtual machine. Shared storage required. Host CPU’s… Read More »

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