The first edition of this book covered version 5.5. However, since then, VMware has released several upgrades. We will briefly review what each of those version upgrades introduced:
vSphere Replication 5.5 Update 1 added full support for VMware VSAN.
vSphere Replication 5.6 introduced support for replicating virtual machines to vCHS (now known as vCloud Air).
vSphere Replication 5.8 added enhanced reporting and improved support for vCHS.
vSphere Replication 6.0 was the first major release since version 5.5. It introduced VR scalability and the following performance features:
VMware now allows the optional compression of the replication data prior to its transmission over the network reducing network bandwidth and replication time. Data compression, however, puts additional load on the source and destination ESXi hosts.
vSphere Replication management and Replication traffic can now be network-separated.
Improved replication engine with capabilities to...