VMware boosts virtualisation tools
VMware also unveiled new versions of other key virtualisation tools: VMware vShield 5, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5, and VMware vCloud Director 1.5.
According to VMware, vSphere 5 will support virtual machines that are up to four times more powerful than those supported by previous versions with up to one terabyte of memory and 32 virtual CPUs and able to process in excess of one million I/O operations per second: a figure that VMware says “will far surpass the requirements of even the most resource-intensive applications.”
VMware hopes its vSphere 5 virtualisation suite will encourage small businesses to use its hypervisor by quadrupling the power available to virtual machines and eliminating the need for a dedicated SAN, says ZDNet UK.
vSphere 5 is the fifth major release of the company's core virtualisation product. With it, VMware hopes to virtualise more demanding workloads, such as business intelligence applications like SAP and SAS, and to head into smaller businesses.
“The cost of infrastructure, at the end of the day, is not the cost of the hardware and software, it is the cost of operating it,” VMware's CEO, Paul Maritz, says.
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