New Features added in vSAN 6.6!

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