vSphere 5 Details Leaked

[Arthur]

Some really interesting new features (assuming the list is accurate)...

 

http://virtualization.info/en/news/2011/04/more-details-about-vsphere-5-appear-online.html

 

In February this year, virtualization.info reported about VMware which exposed some of the upcoming features of vSphere 5 during its Partner Exchange. Last week even more details appeared online, these details leaked on a Turkish Web Forum, but were removed later. The post itself can still be retrieved from Google Cache though.

 

Besides, Distributed Resource Scheduling (DRS) for Storage, Host-based replication for Site Recovery Manager, and Network I/O control for Virtual Machines, vSphere 5 will feature:

 

• Build on the vSphere ESXi hypervisor architecture
  
• vSphere Auto Deploy combining host profiles, Image Builder and PXE
  
• Unified CLI framework, allowing consistency of authentication, roles and auditing.
  
• Support for up to 1 TB of memory
  
• Support for 32 vCPU’s per VM
  
• Nonhardware accelerated 3D graphics for Windows Aero support
  
• USB 3.0 device support
  
• UEFI virtual BIOS
  
• Host UEFI boot support
  
• New GUI to configure multicore vCPUs
  
• Client-connected USB devices
  
• Smart card reader support for VMs
  
• Apple Mac OS X Server 10.6 (Snow Leopard) guest OS support
  
• Support for up to 512 VMs
  
• Support for up to 160 Logical CPUs and 2 TB or RAM
  
• Improved SNMP support
  
• Storage driven storage delivery based on the VMware-Aware Storage APIs
  
• Improved version of the Cluster File System, VMFS5
  
• Accelerator for specific use with View (VDI) workloads, providing a read cache optimized for recognizing, handling and deduplicating VDI client images.
  
• iSCSI user interface support
  
• Storage APIs – Array Integration: Thin Provisioning enabling reclaiming blocks of a thin provisioned LUN on the array when a virtual disk is deleted
  
• Swap to SSD
  
• 2TB+ LUN support
  
• Storage vMotion snapshot support
  
• vNetwork Distributed Switch improvements providing improved visibility in VM traffic
  
• ESXi Firewall protecting the ESXi 5.0 management interface
  
• A browser-based, fully-extensible, platform-independent implementation of the vSphere Client based on Adobe Flex.
  
• vCenter Server Appliance
  
• Inventory Extensibility: providing a manager to monitor partner extensions.
  
• vCenter Solutions Manager, providing a consistent interface to configure and monitor vCenter-integrated solutions developed by VMware and third parties.
  
• System message logging enhancements
  
• Revamped VMware High Availability (HA) with Fault Domain Manager
  
• All hosts in cluster can be primary nodes
  
• Cluster also uses shared storage as a channel for heartbeat detection
  

[Norphy]

Snow Leopard Server support... that'll be good! Hopefully they'll extend that to Lion as well.

[Dos_Box]

Snow Leopard Server support... that'll be good! Hopefully they'll extend that to Lion as well.

 

But hadn't VMWare listed OSX support in the past only to have Apple 'nobble' it?

[K.C.Leblanc]

But hadn't VMWare listed OSX support in the past only to have Apple 'nobble' it?

 

But they have since given up making servers.

[Arthur]

But hadn't VMWare listed OSX support in the past only to have Apple 'nobble' it?

Apple's EULAs permit the virtualization of the server versions of Mac OS X as long as it is on Apple hardware -- Leopard and Snow Leopard Server are both listed as supported guest operating systems for VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop for Mac.

 

However, since there isn't a separate server version of Lion, it looks like Apple are going to have to change their EULA.