VMware vCenter Server 8.0U2 released - Centralized management of vSphere environments

2023-09-21, vSphere 8.0 Update 2 was officially released in the early morning of the 22nd, Beijing time.

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What’s new in VMware vSphere 8 Update 2

VMware vCenter Server is advanced server management software that provides a centralized platform to control vSphere environments for visibility across hybrid clouds.

Simplified and efficient server management

vCenter Server Appliance

What is vCenter Server?

Achieve centralized visibility, simplified and efficient management at scale, and scalability across the entire hybrid cloud , all from a single console. VMware vCenter Server is advanced server management software that provides a centralized platform to control your VMware vSphere environment, allowing you to automate the deployment and delivery of virtual infrastructure across your hybrid cloud with confidence .

Features

VMware vCenter Server features

Easy to deploy

Quickly deploy vCenter Server as a prepackaged, optimized, and easy-to-maintain virtual appliance. Integrating vSphere Update Manager into the vCenter Server Appliance makes the patching and upgrade process quick and easy (sysin). Leveraging the RESTful API, the vCenter Server Appliance can be easily deployed repeatedly through templates, reducing deployment time and human error.

Scalability and scalability across hybrid cloud

No matter which version of vCenter Server you are running, you can seamlessly extend your on-premises environment to a vSphere-based public cloud such as VMware Cloud on AWS. More efficient management at scale: Manage up to 2,000 hosts and 35,000 virtual machines from a single vCenter Server instance.

Centralized control and visibility

Manage your entire vSphere infrastructure (sysin) from a single location. The HTML 5-based vSphere Client lets you manage basic vSphere functionality from any browser, providing greater responsiveness and availability than ever before. Assign users custom roles, search the vCenter Server inventory, or provision new virtual machines with the click of a button.

Active optimization

Allocate and optimize resources to maximize efficiency with our server management software. Manage up to 70,000 virtual machines and 5,000 hosts across 15 vCenter Server instances. Support up to 64 hosts and 8,000 virtual machines using vSphere HA and DRS clustering. Replicate roles, permissions, and licenses across your entire infrastructure so you can log in, view, and search inventory for all vCenter Servers at the same time. Link multiple vCenter Server Appliances and increase visibility without the need for costly load balancers.

Improve management

Use powerful tools to simplify management and extend your control. Use Web services APIs to achieve cost-effective and flexible integration with existing systems management products. Use different VMware vCenter Server versions while allowing mixed-version provisioning operations (such as vMotion , full clones, and cold migrations) across vCenters.

Plug-in extensibility

vSphere Client Plug-ins from VMware partners enable IT administrators to manage third-party elements within their data center directly from vCenter Server. Our server management software features the industry's largest partner ecosystem, as well as the open source vSphere Client Plug-in SDK. This allows vCenter Server customers to perform backup, data protection , server management, network management, and security management directly from vCenter Server.

VMware launched the vSphere Client Plug-in certification program in 2016 to ensure a better end-user experience for customers. Certified plug-ins provide optimal performance, improved security models, client isolation for failures (delivered in a single plug-in), and enhanced vCenter Server Appliance scalability. Customers will be able to identify which vSphere Client plug-ins are certified because only certified plug-ins will bear the "VMware-ready" logo.

Certified vSphere Web Client plug-in :

Dell EMC OpenManagement Integration for VMware vCenter
Huawei Technologies Storage NGC（Flex 和 HTML 5）
IBM Storage Enhancements for vSphere
IBM Spectrum Protect vSphere Web Client
Infinidat Powertools (HTML 5)
Lenovo XClarity Integrator for VMware vCenter
NimbleStorage vSphere Web Client
StorMagic
native elements

Protect the vCenter Server Appliance and related services with native high availability (HA) with a recovery time objective of less than 10 minutes. vSphere has native active-passive high availability capabilities and is certified for the vCenter Server Appliance.

Back up your devices to a set of files while vCenter Server remains up and running using native backup and restore. Restore by pointing a brand new appliance to the backup location and the files will be downloaded to the new vCenter Server Appliance. No need to resort to third-party products.

Schedule vCenter Server Appliance backups and control the number of backups retained through the native backup scheduler.