What’s in the vSphere and vSAN 6.7 release?

Today VMware unveils vSphere version 6.7, which also includes a new version of vSAN. In this post, I am going to highlight some of the big-ticket items that are in vSphere 6.7 from a core storage perspective, and also some of the new feature that you will find in vSAN 6.7. I’ll also cover some of the new enhancements coming in Virtual Volumes (VVols).

vSphere 6.0 Storage Features Part 7: VAAI XCOPY improvements

The more astute of you who have already moved to vSphere 6.0, and like looking at CLI outputs, may have observed some new columns/fields in the PSA claimrules when you run the following command: # esxcli storage core claimrule list –claimrule-class=VAAI The new fields are as follows (slide right to view full output): XCOPY Use Array XCOPY Use XCOPY Max Reported Values  Multiple Segments  Transfer Size ————— —————–  ————– false                   false                  0 false                   false                  0 false                   false                  0 false                   false                  0 false                   false                  0 false                   false                  0 false                   false                  0 false                   false                  0 false                   false                  0 false                  false                  0 false                  …