{"id":875,"date":"2010-07-12T23:01:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T04:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/?p=875"},"modified":"2010-07-12T23:01:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T04:01:40","slug":"vmware-vsphere-4-1-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/vmware-vsphere-4-1-released\/","title":{"rendered":"VMware vSphere 4.1 &#8211; RELEASED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VMware vSphere 4.1 has been released!<\/p>\n<p>This is a release that many have been waiting for.\u00a0 Virtualization.info <strong><a title=\"http:\/\/virtualization.info\/en\/news\/2010\/07\/vmware-will-ship-vsphere-4-1-on-july-13.html\" href=\"http:\/\/virtualization.info\/en\/news\/2010\/07\/vmware-will-ship-vsphere-4-1-on-july-13.html\" target=\"_blank\">leaked<\/a><\/strong> some early details a couple days ago.<\/p>\n<h2>Some of the features that are added include:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Memory Compression<\/strong> &#8211; compressing RAM pages rather than using disk swapping, which will improve performance (could significantly help VDI environments)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/memorycompression.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-899\" title=\"memorycompression\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/memorycompression-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Storage I\/O Control<\/strong> &#8211; VM&#8217;s with a greater need for disk resources can be given priority.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/storageio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-881\" title=\"storageio\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/storageio-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Network I\/O Control <\/strong> &#8211; Can better leverage network utilization by setting QoS priorites for each flow type (iSCSI, NFS, etc)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/networkio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-884\" title=\"networkio\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/networkio-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>DRS Host Affinity<\/strong> &#8211; VM movement can be more granular (great for limiting SQL VM movement, reducing SQL license requirements)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/drsaffinity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-882\" title=\"drsaffinity\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/drsaffinity-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>ESXi will have <strong>native Active Directory Integration<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ad.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-894\" title=\"ad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ad-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>VMware vCenter Server<\/strong> &#8211; Will only run on 64-bit Windows.<\/li>\n<li><strong>vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI) <\/strong>&#8211; New protocol to interface between VMware and storage arrays.\u00a0 This can offload some storage tasks to the storage array natively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The maximums have become larger<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/morevms.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-885 alignright\" title=\"morevms\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/morevms-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>3,000 VMs per cluster <\/strong>(increase by 2 times)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1,000 hosts per vCenter server <\/strong>(increase by more than 3 times)<\/li>\n<li><strong>10,000 VMs per vCenter <\/strong>(increase by more than 3 times)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Up to 8 vMotions in parallel when using 10GbE <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Additionally, some names have changed:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>VMotion is now <strong>vMotion<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Storage VMotion is now <strong>Storage vMotion<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The free ESXi package will be called <strong>vSphere Hypervisor<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>ESX &amp; ESXi (paid version) will be discussed as the <strong>Hypervisor architectures<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, I can&#8217;t wait to get it installed in the lab and give it a spin. Go to <strong><a title=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/download\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/download<\/a><\/strong> to download it too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMware vSphere 4.1 has been released! 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