WHAT'S NEW IN VMWARE VSPHERE 6.7 Introduction VMware vSphere67 delivers key capabilities to enable IT organizations to address the following notable trends that are putting new demands on their It infrastructure Explosive growth in quantity and variety of applications, from business-critical applications to new intelligent workloads Rapid increase in hybrid cloud environments and use cases Global expansion of on-premises data centers, including at the edge Heightened importance of security relating to infrastructure and applications The following sections discuss some of the key capabilities in vSphere 6.7 that Simple and Efficient Management at Scale Sphere 6.7 builds on the technological innovation delivered by vsphere 6.5 and elevates the customer experience to an entirely new level. It provides exceptional management simplicity, outstanding operational efficiency, and faster time to an extraordinary user experience. It introduces several new APls that improve the rs Sphere 6.7, with its improved VMware vCenter Server Appliance system, delive erice ncy and experience of deploying multiple vCenter Server Appliance instances based on a template. These new APls also make management of v Center Server Appliance systems significantly easier while facilitating a more complete backup- and-restore solution v Sphere 6.7 also simplifies the vMware through v Center Server systems with an embedded Platform Services Controller instance in Enhanced Linked Mode. This enables administrators to link multiple v Center Server instances and have seamless visibility across the environment without the need for an external platform services Controller instance or load balancers With vSphere 6.7, vCenter Server Appliance delivers major performance mprovements (all metrics compared at cluster scale limits in contrast to 2X faster performance in vCenter Server operations per second 3X reduction in memory usage 3x faster operations relating to VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler M (vSphere DRS)-for example, virtual machine (Vm) power-on These performance improvements ensure a blazing fast experience for v Sphere users. They deliver significant value as well as time and cost savings in a variety of use cases, such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDi). scale-out applications, big data, High Performance Computing(HPC), DevOps, distributed cloud-native Ware WHITE PAPER 4WHITE PAPER | 4 WHAT’S NEW IN VMWARE vSPHERE 6.7 Introduction VMware vSphere® 6.7 delivers key capabilities to enable IT organizations to address the following notable trends that are putting new demands on their IT infrastructure: • Explosive growth in quantity and variety of applications, from business-critical applications to new intelligent workloads • Rapid increase in hybrid cloud environments and use cases • Global expansion of on-premises data centers, including at the edge • Heightened importance of security relating to infrastructure and applications The following sections discuss some of the key capabilities in vSphere 6.7 that address the aforementioned trends. Simple and Efcient Management at Scale vSphere 6.7 builds on the technological innovation delivered by vSphere 6.5 and elevates the customer experience to an entirely new level. It provides exceptional management simplicity, outstanding operational efciency, and faster time to market—all at scale. vSphere 6.7, with its improved VMware vCenter Server® Appliance™ system, delivers an extraordinary user experience. It introduces several new APIs that improve the efciency and experience of deploying multiple vCenter Server Appliance instances based on a template. These new APIs also make management of vCenter Server Appliance systems significantly easier while facilitating a more complete backup￾and-restore solution. vSphere 6.7 also simplifies the VMware vCenter Server topology through vCenter Server systems with an embedded Platform Services Controller™ instance in Enhanced Linked Mode. This enables administrators to link multiple vCenter Server instances and have seamless visibility across the environment without the need for an external Platform Services Controller instance or load balancers. With vSphere 6.7, vCenter Server Appliance delivers major performance improvements (all metrics compared at cluster scale limits in contrast to vSphere 6.5): • 2X faster performance in vCenter Server operations per second • 3X reduction in memory usage • 3X faster operations relating to VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler™ (vSphere DRS)—for example, virtual machine (VM) power-on These performance improvements ensure a blazing fast experience for vSphere users. They deliver significant value as well as time and cost savings in a variety of use cases, such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), scale-out applications, big data, High Performance Computing (HPC), DevOps, distributed cloud-native applications, and so on