Upgrading Vmware 4 to Vmware 5
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11/9/2011 Netbridge Services 3
Advantages
Networking:
• Netflow support on vDS• Better vmotion over high latency networks (20ms)• Port mirroring on vDS• 75% bandwidth reduction for VDI’s
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11/9/2011 Netbridge Services 4
Storage:
• 1MB blocksize• New file locking system (ATS as a part of VAAI)• VMFS5• Fast, live storage vmotion with I/O mirroring
Advantages
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11/9/2011 Netbridge Services 5
Computing:
• Improved performance for SMT CPU (Symmetric multithreading)• vNUMA – for NUMA aware guest operating system
Advantages
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11/9/2011 Netbridge Services 6
Management:
• Web Client• Multiple communication paths between nodes (+Storage)• More management operations/minute
Advantages
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11/9/2011 Netbridge Services 7
• ESX(i)4 hosts can’t be added to a vDS version 5• Some new bought HS22 Blades had AES enabled **• On heavy load on vCenter machine the hosts get disconnected• Veeam upgrade and recreate backup jobs
Problems appeared
** http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=MIGR-5086963