vSphere 5.5 Update 1 is out with vSAN support!

What’s new

vCenter server 5.5 Update1

• vCenter Server is now supported on Windows Server 2012 R2
• vCloud® Hybrid Service™ vSphere® Client Plug-in, is now available in vSphere Web Client.

 

vSphere ESXi 5.5 Update1

• VMware Virtual SAN – Virtual SAN 5.5 is a new hypervisor-converged storage tier that extends the vSphere Hypervisor to pool server-side magnetic disks (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). By clustering server-side HDDs and SSDs, Virtual SAN creates a distributed shared datastore designed and optimized for virtual environments. Virtual SAN is a standalone product that is sold separate from vSphere and requires its own license key

 

vSphere replication 5.5 Update1

• VMware Virtual SAN is a fully supported feature of vSphere 5.5u1. You can use Virtual SAN in production environments with vSphere Replication 5.5.1 and vSphere 5.5u1.
• Configure vSphere Replication on virtual machines that reside on VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache storage. vSphere Flash Read Cache is disabled on virtual machines after recovery.

 

vCenter Orchestrator 5.5 Update1

• Workflow tagging
• Plug-ins improvements
• Version control system support
• Dynamic Types (Beta)