VMware introduces vSAN 6.6 and no, it is not a patch or a minor update but a milestone release! vSAN 6.6 will be the 6th generation of the product and it includes the most number of features ever! Take a look at this impressive list! 🙂
- Native encryption for data-at-rest
- Compliance certifications
- Resilient management independent of vCenter
- Degraded Disk Handling v2.0 (DDHv2)
- Smart repairs and enhanced rebalancing
- Intelligent rebuilds using partial repairs
- Certified file service & data protection solutions
- Stretched clusters with local failure protection
- Site affinity for stretched clusters
- 1-click witness change for Stretched Cluster
- vSAN Management Pack for vRealize
- Enhanced vSAN SDK and PowerCLI
- Simple networking with Unicast
- vSAN Cloud Analytics with real-time support notification and recommendations
- vSAN Config Assist with 1-click hardware lifecycle management
- Extended vSAN Health Services
- vSAN Easy Install with 1-click fixes
- Up to 50% greater IOPS for all-flash with optimized checksum and dedupe
- Support for new next-gen workloads
- vSAN for Photon in Photon Platform 1.1
- Day 0 support for latest flash technologies
- Expanded caching tier choice
- Docker Volume Driver 1.1
There are more than 20+ new features and enhancements in this release, and I don’t expect you to read them all here so jump to the VMware blogs page and read all about the new features!
Cheers!
– Marek.Z
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