Yesterday VMware released Update 1 for vSphere 5.5, usually it wouldn’t be nothing special but this time along with update VMware released vSAN 1.0. Read more here about vSAN 1.0
vSAN
What’s new
vCenter server 5.5 U1
- vCenter Server is now supported on Windows Server 2012 R2
- vCloud® Hybrid Service™ vSphere® Client Plug-in, is now available in vSphere Web Client.
- vCenter server 5.5 U1 – release notes
vSphere ESXi 5.5 U1
- VMware Virtual SAN – Virtual SAN 5.5 is a new hypervisor-converged storage tier that extends the vSphere Hypervisor to pool server-side magnetic disks (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). By clustering server-side HDDs and SSDs, Virtual SAN creates a distributed shared datastore designed and optimized for virtual environments. Virtual SAN is a standalone product that is sold separate from vSphere and requires its own license key
- ESXi 5.5 U1 – release notes
vSphere replication 5.5 U1
- VMware Virtual SAN is a fully supported feature of vSphere 5.5u1. You can use Virtual SAN in production environments with vSphere Replication 5.5.1 and vSphere 5.5u1.
- Configure vSphere Replication on virtual machines that reside on VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache storage. vSphere Flash Read Cache is disabled on virtual machines after recovery.
- vSphere replication 5.5 U1 – release notes
vCenter Orchestrator 5.5 U1
- Workflow tagging
- Plug-ins improvements
- Version control system support
- Dynamic Types (Beta)
- vCenter Orchestrator 5.5 U1 – release notes
VSAN Pricing
vsan pricing
