Posts tagged "linked-mode"

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: Enhanced Linked Mode

Feb 2, 2015

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for details of all the components._ vCenter Linked Mode provides a single management overview of multiple vCenter instances. Linked Mode also provides a single login for multiple vCenter Servers and t...

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: Finally Announced (at last!)

Feb 2, 2015

1. ( 2. ( 3. ( 4. ( 5. ( 6. ( "What’s New in vSphere 6.0: Virtual Data Center") (removed from release) 7. ( 8. ( "What’s New in vSphere 6.0: Cross vCenter and Long Distance vMotion") 9. ( 10. ( 11. ( Finally, the time has come for VMware to publicly announce its latest update to version 6.0 of its ever growing virtualisation platform, vSphere. It's been a rather strange and somewhat convoluted...

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: Networking

Feb 2, 2015

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for details of all the components._ vSphere networking hasn't had any huge additions in this release. This is partly to be expected as VMware's networking messaging is mainly revolved around NSX for now.

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: NFS Client

Feb 2, 2015

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for all details of all the components._ NFS has been available as a storage protocol since 2006 with ESX 3.0 and vSphere has been using NFS version 3 for all this time. There's been no update to how N...

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: Content Library

Aug 27, 2014

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for details of all the components._ Content Library is a planned new addition to vSphere 6.0 which was talked about for the first time in a session at VMworld. Content Library is a way to centrally st...

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: vCenter

Aug 27, 2014

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for details of all the components._ VMware continues to build out its hypervisor core management application vCenter with more functionality. There are no dramatic architectural changes but VMware is...

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

Aug 26, 2014

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for details of all the components._ It's been many many years in the making but at last Fault Tolerance for Multi-Processor VMs has seen the light of day and was announced during the VMworld keynote t...

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: Virtual Data Center (removed from release)

Aug 26, 2014

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for details of all the components._ UPDATE: 02/02/2015 Virtual Data Center and a Policy Based Management component which were both talked about at VMworld have been pulled from the final release. It s...

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: Virtual Volumes

Aug 26, 2014

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for details of all the components._ Virtual Volumes (VVols) is one of the big new additions to vSphere 6.0. VMware has been talking about it publicly since ( and is a very significant update. VVols c...

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What's New in vSphere 6.0: Cross vCenter and Long Distance vMotion

Aug 26, 2014

_VMware has finally officially announced what is to be included in vSphere 6.0 after lifting the lid on parts of the update during VMworld 2014 keynotes and sessions._ _See my introductory post: ( for details of all the components._ vMotion is one of most basic yet coolest features of vSphere, People generally consider the time they saw vMotion work for the first time as their "wow" moment show...

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