Software Update: VMware vSphere 6.5

Virtualization has gained a prominent place in recent years. Well-known names include Xen and VMware. VMware released vSphere 6.5 at VMworld 2016 Europe in Barcelona. The complete platform is called vSphere and consists of several components, such as vCenter Server, with which a complete virtual environment can be managed, and of course the hypervisor ESXi, on which virtual machines can do their work. For more in-depth information, please refer to this blog† The vSphere announcement in the press release looks like this:

VMware vSphere 6.5: Next Gen Infrastructure for Modern Applications

VMware vSphere 6.5 will feature a simplified customer experience through increased automation and management capabilities, comprehensive built-in security, and support for new application types including containers. With these new capabilities, VMware vSphere 6.5 offers customers a universal application platform that supports traditional and modern applications — spanning 3D graphics, Big Data, cloud-native, containerized machine learning and Software as a Service — to run any application anywhere. The new release will feature:

• VMware vCenter Server Appliance – will deliver a simplified building block for vSphere environments offering an easy to deploy and manage approach that reduces operational complexity by embedding key functionality into a single virtual appliance. The appliance will offer customers simplified patching, upgrading, backup and recovery, high availability and more, including a 2x increase in both scale and performance of their vCenter Server environments.
• REST APIs – will improve both the IT and developer experience by enabling greater control and automation of virtual infrastructure for modern applications via new REST-based APIs.
• VMware vSphere Client – based on HTML5, the new vSphere Client will simplify the administrative experience via a modern, native tool that meets the performance and usability needs and expectations of users for day-to-day operations.
• VM Encryption – new virtual machine-level encryption will protect against unauthorized data access safeguarding data at rest as well as virtual machines that are moved with VMware vMotion.
• Secure Boot – new feature will prevent the tampering of images as well as the loading of unauthorized components into vSphere environments.
• VMware vSphere Integrated Containers – will allow IT operations teams to provide a Docker-compatible interface to their app teams enabling vSphere customers to transform their businesses with containers without re-architecting their existing infrastructure.