Решил собрать информацию о перспективах развития VMware Vsphere по материалам VMworlds 2017. Часть функций будет реализована в версии 6.7, часть только обозначены как задел на будущее.
vSphere HTML5 Client (#SER2779BE What’s New in vCenter Server) :
- Full SPBM
- Further Guest OS Customization
- Full Distributed Switch support
- Plugins: VUM, SRM, VSAN, NSX
#SER2324BE What’s New with vSphere?
- ESXi Upgrade with No Reboot!
- Visibility across multiple vCenters
- Data sharing
- Mixed-version support
- Support Metro and WAN latencies
- Support Cross-Cloud deployments
- Прекращение поддержки после версии 6.7:
– vCenter on Windows (in favor of vCenter appliance)
– Flex Client (in favor of vSphere Client based on HTML5)
– vmkLinux API, Kernel Support (in favor of native driver model)
– VMware will be moving away from both the Flex Client and VMK Linux driver model in the future
– Не забывайте про Прекращение поддержки процессоров в VMware vSphere 6.7
#SER1729BE Networking for Virtual Environments – What’s New and What’s Next for vSphere networking:
- RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
- Para-virtualized RDMA (PVRDMA)
NVMe Support( #SER2413BE NVMe: What Is It? An Interface? A Protocol? A New Drive Technology? An Industry Revolution?):
- Performance enhancements
- Extended CLI/UI
- Namespace management
- Async event error handling
- Enhance diagnostic logs
- Multiple namespaces, Queues
- NVMe Over Fabric
- End-to-end NVMe Stack
- The new VMD feature to support NVMe hot-plug (source)
- UNMAP
- SR-IOV
- Sanitize
- I/O Determinism
#SER1317BU Storage Virtualization – What’s New and What’s Next for vSphere Storage
- SW Emulation For Servers with 4KN HDD
- End to End 4KN Drives and 4KN LUNs
- Intelligent Space Reclamation