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One thing that I tested very early during the vSphere 6 beta phase was ESXi driver compatibility with earlier versions.
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Time and the performance tests to come will tell how much you can gain from it with ESXi.Ībout driver compatibility and community supported drivers and tools
Version 4.1 has superior new features (state management, improved locking, Kerberos authentication) and can be much more efficient and performant than 3.0 (which was exclusively supported with ESXi 5.x), but that depends very much on the client implementation.
If you are using NFS storage for VMs (either on a hardware NAS box or hosted on a VM) with your ESXi hosts then you might be interested in the new support for NFS version 4.1. Patrick Schulz over at has a nice detailed write-up about NVMe, and he also points out that an NVMe driver is already available for ESXi 5.5, but needs to be installed separately there. This allows for new (much smaller) form factors and much improved performance for SSDs. NVMe ( NVM Express) is a new standard for attaching SSD storage directly to the computer's PCIe bus (instead of through a SATA AHCI interface). ( This section was updated on to reflect clarifications made in this VMware blog article.)Īccording to hardware support there is one feature that will become more and more important in the future: the NVMe driver that ESXi 6.0 includes out-of-the-box.
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So, basically the legacy Client has the same feature set as the vSphere Client of version 5.5 Update 2, but extended to vSphere 6.0 and its new VM hardware version 11. vCenter based features that where introduced with version 5.1 or later will also be only available in the Web Client.
SATA controllers, SR-IOV, GPU 3D, vFlash settings etc.). And you can edit VMs of all hardware versions up to 11 (ESXi 6.0) with it! However, all hardware features newer than v8 will be read-only or not available (e.g. You can no longer use it to manage vCenter (this is really limited to the Web Client now), but you can use it to manage ESXi hosts directly. You will be able to use it for managing ESXi 6.0 hosts directly, but also to connect to vCenter 6.0. The first good news is that vSphere 6 still includes a version of the legacy vSphere Client.
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Even in enterprise production environments it will be difficult to find setups that come even close to these numbers.īut what's in vSphere 6 that is useful for users of the free ESXi license and home labs? The ever increasing VM scalability now allows you to run VMs with 128 vCPUs and 4 TB RAM on physical hosts that can have up to 480 pCPUs and 12 TB RAM.
Since this is an enterprise product most of the exciting new features are interesting for large installations using paid licenses and vCenter managed hosts: The long awaited ability ro use the Fault Tolerance (FT) feature with VMs that have more than one vCPU (SMP FT) is something that you can try out in your home lab if you have multiple hosts and use vCenter with an evaluation license, but the new support for virtual storage volumes (vVol) requires a modern SAN array with proper hardware support - nothing that you will find in the average home lab (at least not today). VMware has announced its much anticipated new major version of their flagship product vSphere, and right now the virtualization blogosphere is humming with the news about vSphere 6.0. The cat is out of the bag and it wears the number 6.
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