Last week I saw the new vSphere 6.5 at VMworld 2016 (EU). I’m very happy with the upcoming features. Some of them are extremely cool and some are overdue.

A short wrap up:

• vSphere Update Manager included in VCSA
• Automatic Migration to VCSA from Windows vCenter
• vCenter High Availability (Active,Passive,Witness) 5min RTO
• HTML 5 Client
• no more vSphere Fat-Client
• GUI for vSphere Autodeploy
• VM Encryption
• Encrypted VMotion

For further infos checkout this links:

• http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2016/10/whats-new-in-vsphere-6-5-vcenter-server.html
• http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2016/10/whats-new-in-vsphere-6-5-security.html
• http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2016/10/whats-new-in-vsphere-6-5-host-resource-management-and-operations.html