{"id":16080,"date":"2016-03-21T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/?p=16080"},"modified":"2016-03-24T15:37:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T14:37:51","slug":"vmware-vsphere-6-0-update-2-virtual-san-6-2-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vmware-vsphere-6-0-update-2-virtual-san-6-2-released\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware vSphere 6.0 Update 2 with Virtual SAN 6.2 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16079 size-large\" title=\"vsphere60u2released01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/vsphere60u2released01-600x201.jpg\" alt=\"vsphere60u2released01\" width=\"600\" height=\"201\" \/><\/p>\n<p>VMware released vSphere 6.0 Update 2 introducing enhancements and including the announced Virtual SAN 6.2.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to fixing some bugs, the new release introduces the VMware\u00a0Host Client <strong>based on HTML5<\/strong> used to manage ESXi hosts only and it should perform better than other available solutions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>What's new in Update 2<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>ESXi 6.0 U2<\/h4>\n<p>-<strong> VMware Host Client:<\/strong>\u00a0the VMware Host Client is an HTML5 client that is used to connect to and manage single ESXi hosts.<\/p>\n<p>-<strong> High Ethernet Link Speed<\/strong>: support for 25 G and 50 G ethernet link speeds.<\/p>\n<p>- <strong>vSphere APIs for I\/O Filtering (VAIO) Enhancement<\/strong>:\u00a0support for the IO Filter VASA Provider in a pure IPv6 environment and also\u00a0VMIOF versions 1.0 and 1.1.<\/p>\n<p>Additional info can be found in the ESXi 6.0 U2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.vmware.com\/Release_Notes\/en\/vsphere\/60\/vsphere-esxi-60u2-release-notes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Release Notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>vCenter Server 6.0 U2<\/h4>\n<p>- <strong>Two-factor authentication for vSphere Web Client<\/strong>: protect the vSphere Web Client using\u00a0RSA SecurID and\u00a0Smart card (That is the UPN based Common Access Card) form of authentication.<\/p>\n<p>- <strong>Support to change vSphere ESX Agent Manager logging level<\/strong>: this release supports dynamic increase or decrease of vSphere ESX Agent Manager (EAM) logging levels without restarting EAM.<\/p>\n<p>- <strong>vSphere Web Client support<\/strong>: vSphere Web Client now supports Microsoft Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>- <strong>vCenter Server database support<\/strong>: vCenter Server now supports\u00a0Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP3 and\u00a0Microsoft SQL Server 2014 SP1<\/p>\n<p>Additional info can be found in the vCenter Server\u00a06.0 U2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.vmware.com\/Release_Notes\/en\/vsphere\/60\/vsphere-vcenter-server-60u2-release-notes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Release Notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>What's new in Virtual SAN 6.2<\/h2>\n<p>The Update 2 includes the new VSAN 6.2\u00a0which\u00a0brings some new features.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16082 size-large\" title=\"vsphere60u2released02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/vsphere60u2released02-600x411.jpg\" alt=\"vsphere60u2released02\" width=\"600\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>- <strong>Deduplication and Compression<\/strong>:\u00a0reduce the storage consumed\u00a0up to 7x\u00a0with\u00a0a\u00a0minimal impact on CPU and memory overhead. To activate this feature, navigate to the VSAN management view\u00a0and select the\u00a0<strong>Enable<\/strong>\u00a0option in the drop down menu of the <strong>Deduplication and compression<\/strong>\u00a0field.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16083 size-full\" title=\"vsphere60u2released03\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/vsphere60u2released03.jpg\" alt=\"vsphere60u2released03\" width=\"507\" height=\"442\" \/><\/p>\n<p>- <strong>RAID-5\/6 (Erasure Coding)<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0the new fault tolerance method ensure\u00a0the same levels of availability saving up to <strong>50% of\u00a0capacity<\/strong> consumption\u00a0versus RAID-1. Configurable through the VM Storage Policies, this functionality is enabled in the\u00a0<strong>Failure\u00a0tolerance method<\/strong>\u00a0field.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16092 size-large\" title=\"vsphere60u2released04\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/vsphere60u2released04-600x184.jpg\" alt=\"vsphere60u2released04\" width=\"600\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n<p>- <strong>Sparse Swap Files<\/strong>: virtual swap files are created when VMs\u00a0are powered on and used when the physical\u00a0host memory is exhausted.\u00a0This setting creates virtual swap files as a sparse object on the Virtual SAN datastore\u00a0consuming capacity on Virtual SAN only when\u00a0they are accessed. As\u00a0result, less space is consumed on the Virtual SAN datastore.<\/p>\n<p>- <strong>Quality of Service \/ Limits<\/strong>: this\u00a0feature that limits the number IOPS an object may\u00a0consume.\u00a0Applied to Virtual SAN objects through a Storage Policy, quality\u00a0of service\u00a0can be applied to<br \/>\nindividual components or the entire VM\u00a0without interrupting the operation of the\u00a0virtual machine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16093 size-large\" title=\"vsphere60u2released05\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/vsphere60u2released05-600x100.jpg\" alt=\"vsphere60u2released05\" width=\"600\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>- <strong>Integrated Performance Metrics<\/strong>: new release includes a\u00a0number of new graphs and data points that provide performance information at the cluster,\u00a0host, virtual machine, and virtual disk levels.\u00a0These metrics provide\u00a0quick visibility to the entire Virtual SAN cluster, showing how Virtual SAN and the objects that\u00a0reside on it are performing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16095 size-large\" title=\"vsphere60u2released06\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/vsphere60u2released06-600x321.jpg\" alt=\"vsphere60u2released06\" width=\"600\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>- <strong>Enhanced Health Service<\/strong>: the health service actively tests and\u00a0monitors a number of items such as hardware compatibility, network connectivity, cluster\u00a0health, and capacity consumption.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16096 size-full\" title=\"vsphere60u2released07\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/vsphere60u2released07.jpg\" alt=\"vsphere60u2released07\" width=\"515\" height=\"149\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For other features and detailed info about Virtual SAN 6.2, check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/whats-new-virtual-san\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/firma.jpg\" alt=\"firma\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMware released vSphere 6.0 Update 2 introducing enhancements and including the announced Virtual SAN 6.2. In addition to fixing some bugs, the new release introduces the VMware\u00a0Host Client based on HTML5 used to manage ESXi hosts only and it should perform better than other available solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","twitter_113568041_113568041":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[903],"tags":[1563,699,700],"class_list":["post-16080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vmware-en","tag-update-2","tag-vmware-en","tag-vsphere-en","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}