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VMworld US 2016 Buzz: What’s New with vCenter Server – INF9944R

September 9th, 2016

Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:

I had planned to attend a session on one of the products I’ve written extensively about over the years, vCenter. After VMworld last year I had some things to say about the product management and direction of vCenter so was hoping to see how a year may have changed things. The session was unfortunately oversubscribed by the time I arrived so I missed out but caught up from a few people.

This was run by Vivienne Cleveland from FexEx, Jason Juha from Boeing and Madhup Gulati who’se the Product Manager from VMware.

The session focused on the vSphere 6 appliance and went through some of the new updates with the Update 2 release. Nothing too interesting that I didn’t know or that can’t be gleaned from the interwebs.

I was more interested in the tech previews of what’s coming up. At last year’s group discussion there was talk of higher availability for the VCSA and this was mentioned again. This is going to be an active-passive setup where vCenter can fail over to a warm standby in the same site. As I mentioned before this is a start but likely won’t satisfy the needs of companies that need to rely heavily on their management environment for cloud deployments or VDI and really need a scale out highly available environment.

VMware has also been hinting over the years that it will develop its vRealize Air management platform to include vCenter. Think vCenter in the cloud but nothing was apparently mentioned today other than what’s part of VMware Cloud Foundation.

I was disappointed to not be able to attend as I was just 2 minutes late.

I attended another vCenter session shortly afterwards, see my post: VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Ask the vCenter Server Experts Panel – INF9083

As VMworld2016 has made the recording publicly available, you can view the session here:

http://vmware.mediasite.com/mediasite/Play/ba4cb7ce031845f5a3ac824053f8adbb1d?catalog=dbf1ec28-2557-4dd3-a381-e5fe4ceabc40

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