This chapter covers the most recent version of the vSphere product. It is important to understand the new features that version 6.0 brings with its release. We will cover how vSphere 6.0 is going to change the software-defined data centers (SDDC), and will then proceed to take a deeper look at the technical updates that vSphere 6.0 addresses.
Following are the topics we will be discussing in this chapter:
Introduction to vSphere 6.0
Scale-up and scale-out applications
Virtual desktop infrastructure
NVIDIA GRID vGPU technology
Instant Clone
Long-distance vMotion
Multi-CPU Fault Tolerance
Content library
vSphere Web Client
vCenter Server features and architecture
Storage capabilities
vSphere Data Protection
VMware Integrated OpenStack
vCloud Air Disaster Recovery