VMware Introduces vSphere 6

VMware, Inc. announced VMware vSphere® 6, the newest edition of the company’s virtualization solution for the hybrid cloud. The press release said, with more than 650 new features and innovations, VMware vSphere 6 will provide customers with a highly available, resilient, on-demand cloud infrastructure to run, protect and manage any application. VMware vSphere 6 will be complemented by the newest releases of VMware vCloud® Suite 6, VMware vSphere with Operations Management™ 6, and VMware Virtual SAN™ 6.

VMware also re-enforced its support of open frameworks for building and managing clouds with its new VMware Integrated OpenStack distribution. VMware claimed this first-ever OpenStack distribution from the company will empower IT to provide developers with open API access to enterprise-class VMware infrastructure. Additionally, VMware revealed a technology preview that will enable customers to bridge the public and private cloud through the combination of VMware NSX™ network virtualization and VMware vCloud® Air™, VMware’s public cloud service, to enable a single, secure network domain.

In a related news, VMware announced the industry’s first unified platform of virtualized compute, networking and storage for the hybrid cloud as well as new innovations for software-defined storage including VMware Virtual SAN 6 and vSphere Virtual Volumes™.

VMware vSphere 6’s new capabilities and features include:

Broad Application Support , New Long-Distance Live Migration Capabilities, Instant Clone Technology, 3D Graphics for Desktop Virtualization & Enterprise-Class Hypervisor-Converged Storage.