What’s New with Virtual SAN 6.5? – New Features Overview
With the release of vSphere 6.5, fith generation of VMware Virtual SAN which is Virtual SAN 6.5, Industry leading software powering hyper-converged infrastructure solution released. In March 2016, Virtual SAN 6.2 is released with vSphere 6 Update 2. Which includes the enhancements like Deduplication and Compression, RAID-5/RAID-6 – Erasure Coding, Software Checksum, IPV6 and Performance Monitoring Service. we will discuss in detail about new enhancements with Virtual SAN 6.2. Yesterday Virtual SAN 6.5 is announced along with vSphere 6.5 during VMworld Barcelona.Virtual SAN 6.2 has unique in-kernel architecture delivers flash-optimized performance and elastically scalable storage for any virtualized application, with TCO savings of up to 50%. Below are the list of the new capabilities added with Virtual SAN 6.5:
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iSCSI Support
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2-Node Direct Connect
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Next-Generation Hardware
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All-Flash Everywhere
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Full-Featured PowerCLI’s