What's New at VMworld 2015

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With VMworld 2015 starting today, there will always be new announcement.  Here I am going to summarize what are the new stuff that will be release in a nutshell and detail some of them in later post.

vSphere 6.0 U1
- Tech preview of vSphere Web Client Update Manager
- able to migration embedded PSC to external PSC
- added vCloud Air web client to plugin

Virtual SAN (VSAN) 6.1
- stretch cluster in All-Flash VSAN
- 2 nodes ROBO office with witness in main site
- vSphere Replication to support 5 minutes RPO
 
vSphere with Operations Manager 6.1 (vSOM), vRealize Operations 6.1 (vR Ops), vRealize Operations Insight 6.1 (vROI)
vR Ops Standard Edition now comes with SDDC management packs which include VSAN, vCloud Ai, NSX Update 17th Sept 2015: Apparently vR Ops 6.1 Advanced and above will have these management packs.
- New OS & Applications monitoring starting with 5 supported apps.  More to come.
- Tech preview: Workload Placement Engine (WLP) working with DRS

vCenter Site Recovery Manager 6.1
- Support of Metro cluster vMotion during planned downtime across different physical sites

EVO SDDC
- Previously named as EVO:RACK in tech preview
- 1/3 rack minimum

EVO:RAIL 2.0
-  available in 5 hardware profiles
- support up to 64 nodes with 16 appliances

vCloud Air Compliance (EAP-US)
- Realize visibility for continuous monitoring of compliance
- applicable for on premise and off premise services

Horizon 6.2
- Horizon for Linux vGPU and vSGA support on top of existing vDGA
- Support for Skype Business
- New AMD GPU support for vDGA
- All-Flash VSAN support
- Zero day support for Windows 10
- Announce of Project Enzo

VMware Identity Manager Advanced Edition
- Previously known as VMware Workspace
- Advanced added support on SSO with enrollment of mobile devices for use to access applications via iDM

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