{"id":283,"date":"2022-11-01T21:12:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T20:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.10.3:8585\/?p=283"},"modified":"2022-11-08T12:27:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T11:27:23","slug":"whats-new-vsphere-8-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/?p=283&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"What\u00b4s New vSphere 8.0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>vSphere 8.0 brings several new features and changes. If you want to have a look to the complete list see<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/core.vmware.com\/vmware-vsphere-8\"><em>core.vmware.com\/vmware-vsphere-8<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.10.3:8585\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-1024x539.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-286\" width=\"611\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-1024x539.png 1024w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-768x404.png 768w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-1536x808.png 1536w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-2048x1077.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 611px) 100vw, 611px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are five main pillars where vSphere 8.0 is focused:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cloud operations with the addition of a new Cloud Portal for centralized cloud and onpremise workloads.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Workload performance with \u00abvSphere Distributed Service Engine\u00bb and the inclusion of \u00abDevice groups\u00bb.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>vSAN 8.0 includes a new architecture called \u00abExpress Storage Architecture\u00bb or \u00abESA\u00bb. This will be covered in a different article.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Operation Efficiency with the complete integration of Update Manager, new features and compatibility with the new DPUs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DevOps improvevents on Operations and HA with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid new features. This will be covered in a different article as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-ef1a0c93-84ac-43c4-b77f-ffe2862c72b5\">vSphere Distributed Services Engine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-3f0784f7-a610-4bb5-b585-efd73acb7b07\">One of the biggest inclusion in the new version are the compatibility hardware accelerated DPUs into vSphere, a way to use the power of compatible hardware accelerated data processing units and move some services now existing in the compute, layer (the CPU).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"822\" height=\"304\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.10.3:8585\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-7.png 822w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-7-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-7-768x284.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this example we can use a SmartNIC to off load NSX and security services. This way we can isolate these service from the workload domains, reduce CPU overhead, improve network performance etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.10.3:8585\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-296\" width=\"882\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-8.png 768w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-8-300x142.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 882px) 100vw, 882px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Some things to consider:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>At launch, vSphere Distributed Services Engine is supported by DPUs from NVIDIA and AMD, and server designs from Dell and HPE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>vSphere Distributed Services Engine is available on servers with pre-installed DPUs. You cannot install DPUs separately in your environment or use Distributed Services Engine without pre-installed DPUs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ESXi is installed into the DPU the same way is installed in a host, then Lifecycle manager can be use to update and upgrade the host and the DPU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Security best practices must be follow, see <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-vSphere\/8.0\/vsphere-security\/GUID-6BB96B0C-2F19-4312-AD10-0CEF03D5D725.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-vSphere\/8.0\/vsphere-security\/GUID-6BB96B0C-2F19-4312-AD10-0CEF03D5D725.html\"><em>https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-vSphere\/8.0\/vsphere-security\/GUID-6BB96B0C-2F19-4312-AD10-0CEF03D5D725.html<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Features not supported by&nbsp;vSphere Distributed Switch&nbsp;backed by DPU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"GUID-41AB1101-D943-490A-BF1A-E53433855C07__UL_3724F76F-762F-49BE-81F6-2469AFAFB39A\">\n<li>Network I\/O control.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Traffic shaping policies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DV filter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-46e61228-606e-4176-b47d-57e2b30a5b72\">Lifecycle Management<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">vCenter Recovery<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>vCenter Recovery can now use a distributed key value stored in the hosts, when vCenter is recovered from a backup it will recover the cluster state with this DKVS. Host membership will be recovered even if the backup was created previously. Other additional configuration is planned to be included in future releases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.10.3:8585\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-10-1024x729.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-298\" width=\"730\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-10-1024x729.png 1024w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-10-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-10-768x547.png 768w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-10-1536x1094.png 1536w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-10.png 2021w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DPU Lifecycle Manager compatibility<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Inclusion of support for DPU for vSphere Lifecycle Manager. Its possible to remediate ESX and DPU in paralell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Baseline deprecation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The depracation of VUM that now gives a warning to stop using baselines. This will be the last release that supports baseline lifecycle management.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.10.3:8585\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-9-1024x556.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-297\" width=\"743\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-9-1024x556.png 1024w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-9-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-9-768x417.png 768w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-9.png 1172w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Other minor features are included:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Now its possible to stage updates for the cluster before remediation without entering into maintanance mode. Firmware updates can also be staged.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We can choose to remediate all host that are in maintenace mode or just a predefined number to be performed in paralell.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A technical preview of vSphere Configuration Profiles is included, this is an ongoing develepment that will remove \u00abhost profiles\u00bb funtionality when completed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-46e61228-606e-4176-b47d-57e2b30a5b72\"><strong>Device Groups<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Device groups lets VM consume hardware connected to the same PCI switch or connected by a direct interconnect as a single entitity. To create device groups its required compatible device drivers, initially only NVIDIA is the first vendor compatible.<br><br>These groups are dicovered and presented as a single entity, to add it to a VM we only need to add a new PCI device and select the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.10.3:8585\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-14-1024x837.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-302\" width=\"740\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-14-1024x837.png 1024w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-14-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-14-768x628.png 768w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-14-1536x1256.png 1536w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-14-2048x1674.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-46e61228-606e-4176-b47d-57e2b30a5b72\"><strong>TPM Provision Policy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When Cloning VMs with vTPM (Trusted Platform Module) we can now choose between \u00abCopy\u00bb or \u00abReplace\u00bb methods. Clonning will maintain the TPM secrets and Replace will create a new secret. This is specially important to avoid having several VMs with the same secret and avoid a security risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.10.3:8585\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-17-1024x534.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-305\" width=\"741\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-17-1024x534.png 1024w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-17-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-17-768x400.png 768w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-17.png 1174w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\"><strong>vMotion Appplication awareness<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For applications impacted by vMotion now we can configure to \u00abprepare\u00bb for a vmotion event. We can ask the application to stop services or to move them to a different node of the cluster before the vMotion occurrs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This feature is interesnting for clusters, VoIP, critical applications etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\"><strong>NUMA Configuration for VMs<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Hardware version 20 lets you configure a custom NUMA configuration for VMs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.10.3:8585\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-19-1024x442.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-307\" width=\"751\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-19-1024x442.png 1024w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-19-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-19-768x332.png 768w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-19-1536x663.png 1536w, https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-19-2048x884.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"title-1\">Limits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>VMware vSphere 8.0 supports the latest Intel and AMD CPUs with virtual hardware version 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some limits have been increased in VMware vSphere 8 compared to vSphere 7.0U3:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The number of vGPU devices&nbsp;is increased to 8<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The number of ESXi hosts that can be managed by Lifecycle Manager&nbsp;is increased from 400 to 1,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VMs per cluster&nbsp;is increased from 8,000 to 10,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VM DirectPath I\/O devices per host&nbsp;is increased from 8 to 32<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>vSphere 8.0 brings several new features and changes. If you want to have a look to the complete list see core.vmware.com\/vmware-vsphere-8 There are five main pillars where vSphere 8.0 is focused: vSphere Distributed Services Engine One of the biggest inclusion in the new version are the compatibility hardware accelerated DPUs into vSphere, a way to &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/?p=283&#038;lang=en\" class=\"more-link pen_element_default pen_icon_none\">Seguir leyendo <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What\u00b4s New vSphere 8.0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vsphere_english","tag-vsphere-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecloudarchitects.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}