A couple of days ago, VMWare announced vSphere 6.0. I guess many of our customers have been waiting for this new release and probably I will see in the next few months this new version rolled out on the top of their virtual SQL Server vitual machines. If you missed this event, you can still register here.

I’m not a VMWare expert but VSphere 6.0 seems to be a storage-oriented version with a lot of improvements and new functionalities (including Virtual SAN 6.0). Among the long list of improvements one of them may probably interest many of our customers: using vMotion with pRDMs disks will be possible in the future. As a reminder, pRDMs disks are a prerequisite with Microsoft Failover Clusters virtual machines (in CAB scenarios).

There are also other interesting features that will probably benefit our SQL Server instances as storage IOPS reservation, application level backup and restore of SQL Server (including Exchange and SharePoint) with new vSphere Data Protection capabilities. I will surely blog about it in the coming months …

Happy virtualization!

By David Barbarin