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Indiscrétion ou volonté de VMware de publier non officiellement des informations sur la prochaine version de vSphere ?

Le site virtualization.info a publié récemment une liste de fonctionnalités disponibles sous la prochaine release de vSphere : vSphere 4.1.

• Storage I/O can be shaped by I/O shares and limits through the new Storage I/O Control quality of service (QoS) feature
• Network I/O can be partitioned through a new QoS engine that distinguish between virtual machines, vMotion, Fault Tolerance (FT) and IP storage traffic.
• Memory compression will allow to compress RAM pages instead of swapping on disk, improving virtual machines performance.
• Distribute Resource Scheduling (DRS) now can follow affinity rules defining a subset of hosts where a virtual machine can be placed
• Virtual sockets can now have multiple virtual CPUs. Each virtual CPU will appear as a single core in the guest operating system.
• A team physical network interface cards in a vNetwork Distributed Switch can now dynamically load balance traffic.
• Health check status and operational dashboard are available for HA configurations.
• vSphere Client is no more part of the ESX and ESXi installation packages. At the end of the installation process administrators are redirected online to download the client.
• ESXi installation can be scripted. The script can start from a CD or over a PXE boot source, and can install the hypervisor on local or remote disks.
• ESX can boot from iSCSI targets (support for iBFT)
• NFS performance stats are included in esxtop and vCenter Server, as well as through the vSphere SDK.
• Virtual machines serial ports redirection over the network
• Support for up to 4 vMotion concurrent live migrations in 1GbE networks and up to 8 concurrent live migrations in 10GbE networks
• Support for USB pass-through (virtual machines can use ESX/ESXi local USB devices)
• Support for administrator password change in Host Profiles
• Support for FT in DRS clusters with with Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC)
• Support for iSCSI TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) network interface cards (both 10GB an 1GB)
• Support for 8GB Fibre Chanell HBAs
• Support for IPsec on IPv6 network configurations
• Support for multiple Data Recovery virtual appliances
• Support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Service (VSS) in Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 guest operating systems for vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP)
• Update Manager (VUM) can now patch additional 3rd party modules for ESX (like EMC PowerPath)
• Virtual to Virtual (V2) migration for offline Hyper-V virtual machines in vCenter Converter
• ESX and ESXi direct support for Microsoft Active Directory through Likewise technology integration
• Support for Intel Xeon 7500 / 5600 / 3600 CPU series (this includes EVC support)
• Support for AMD Opteron 4000 / 6000 CPU series (this includes EVC support)

Etant beta testeur officiel donc sous NDA je ne pouvais communiquer ces informations avant qu’un tiers de les publient.