vSphere can then be configured to respond according to the failure. Working in conjunction with participating hardware vendors, vCenter will plug into the hardware monitoring solution to receive the health status of the monitored components such as fans, memory, and power supplies. Proactive HA will detect hardware conditions of a host and allow you to evacuate the VMs before the issue causes an outage. Here is a glimpse of the what you can expect to see when vSphere 6.5 later this year. vSphere 6.5 continues to move the needle by adding major new features and improving existing features to make vSphere the most trusted virtual computing platform available. VSphere continues to provide the best availability and resource management features for today’s most demanding applications. It’s easy to see how vSphere 6.5 makes management of hosts easier for datacenters of all sizes! Resource Management – HA, FT and DRS In addition to all of that, we are pleased to announce that Auto Deploy now supports UEFI hardware for those customers running the newest servers from VMware OEM partners. And like VUM, Auto Deploy also benefits from native vCenter HA for quick failover in the event of an outage. Scalability has been greatly improved over previous releases and it’s easy to design an architecture with optional reverse proxy caches for very large environments needing to optimize and reduce resource utilization on the VCSA. New and unassigned hosts that boot from Auto Deploy will now be collected under the Discovered Hosts tab as they wait patiently for instructions, and a new interactive workflow enables provisioning without ever creating a deploy rule.Ĭustom integrations and other special configuration tasks are now possible with the Script Bundle feature, enabling arbitrary scripts to be run on the ESXi hosts after they boot via Auto Deploy. Administrators no longer need to use PowerCLI to create and manage deploy rules or custom ESXi images.
And finally, the process of effecting configuration change is greatly enhanced in vSphere 6.5 thanks to DRS integration for scenarios that require maintenance mode, and speedy parallel remediation for changes that do not.Īuto Deploy – the boot-from-network deployment option for vSphere – is now easier to manage in vSphere 6.5 with the introduction of a full-featured graphical interface. The process of setting these per-host values is known as host customization, and with this release it is now possible to manage these settings for groups of hosts via CSV file – undoubtedly appealing to customers with larger environments.Ĭompliance checks are more informative as well, with a detailed side-by-side comparison of values from a profile versus the actual values on a host. For starters, an updated graphical editor that is part of the vSphere Web Client now has an easy-to-use search function in addition to a new ability to mark individual configuration elements as favorites for quick access.Īdministrators now have the means to create a hierarchy of host profiles by taking advantage of the new ability to copy settings from one profile to one or many others.Īlthough Host Profiles provides a means of abstracting management away from individual hosts in favor of clusters, each host may still have distinct characteristics, such as a static IP address, that must be accommodated. Host Profiles has come a long way since the initial introduction way back in vSphere 4! This release offers much in the way of both management of the profiles, as well as day-to-day operations. VUM is enabled by default and ready to handle patching and upgrading tasks of all magnitudes in your datacenter. This eliminates the additional VM, operating system license, and database dependencies of the previous architecture, and now benefits from the resiliency of vCenter HA for redundancy.
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VMware Update Manager (VUM) continues to be the preferred approach for keeping ESXi hosts up to date, and with vSphere 6.5 it has been fully integrated with the VCSA. With vSphere 6.5, administrators will find significantly easier and more powerful capabilities for patching, upgrading, and managing the configuration of VMware ESXi hosts. Enhanced vSphere Host Lifecycle Management Capabilities Last but not least, there are some notable improvements to vRealize Operations, since this product is bundled with certain editions of vSphere.
There are also greatly enhanced developer and automation interfaces, which are a major focus in this release. VSphere 6.5 brings a number of enhancements to ESXi host lifecycle management as well as some new capabilities to our venerable resource management features, DRS and HA.
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