VMware vSphere 5.5 Announced

This 5.5 release offers several enhancements, These enhancements include:

• Greater Scalability – Configurations have doubled from previous limits when it comes to physical CPUs, memory and NUMA nodes. Virtual disk files also now scale up to 64TBs.
• vSphere Customization for Low Latency Applications – vSphere with Operations Management can be tuned to deliver the best performance for low latency applications, such as in-memory databases
• vSphere Flash Read Cache – Server side flash can now be virtualized to provide a high performance read cache layer that dramatically lowers application latency.
• vSphere App HA – This new level of availability enables vSphere with Operations Management to detect and recover from application or operating system failure.
• vSphere Big Data Extensions – Apache Hadoop workloads can now run on vSphere with Operations Management to achieve higher utilization, reliability and agility

http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/08/announcing-vsphere-with-operations-management-5-5-increasing-performance-and-availability-for-your-business-critical-applications.html

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