VMware has recently announced the General Availability (GA) of vSphere 8, as always we have a lot of new features and a whole new look to the web interface.
You can download the new vSphere 8 now from VMware https://customerconnect.vmware.com/en/downloads/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/8_0
As with all the new versions of VMware products VMware raises the bar for the maximum limits and I think in this new release they have outdone themself again. To check out the Maximum values that vSphere 8. I am particularly surprised by the Host’s maximum Logical CPU limit.
You can visit https://configmax.esp.vmware.com/guest?vmwareproduct=vSphere&release=vSphere%208.0&categories=2-0
Let’s have a quick look what’s new.
VMware has introduced a cool new feature Data Processing Unit ( DPU), This is available in the hardware similar to GPU, PCI or any NIC what VMware has done is they are now going to run the hypervisor within the DPU to offload the networking traffic. ( So, we will be having two instances of vSphere on one hardware). The good thing is this is all managed by vSphere and we VMware Adminis, will not behave over the head of upgrading or updating this as it’s going be managed by the Life Cycle Manager.
https://core.vmware.com/resource/whats-new-vsphere-8#sec21112-sub1
Meet the vSphere Distributed Services Engine, this will be working on the DPU Isolation Layer and will be responsible for the Network and Security
We can easily select the option to offload the network traffic by a simple dropdown selection as shown below:
Check out this quick session which gives you a good overview of the vSphere 8
