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VMware vSphere 8 is the enterprise workload platform that brings the benefits of cloud to on-premises workloads. It supercharges performance with DPU and GPU based acceleration, enhances operational efficiency through the VMware Cloud Console, seamlessly integrates with add-on hybrid cloud services, and accelerates innovation with an enterprise-ready integrated Kubernetes runtime that runs containers alongside VMs.
The following is a highlight of what's new in vSphere 8 and not an exhaustive list of new features and capabilities. For more on vSphere 8, including deeper dives into certain topics, see core.vmware.com/vmware-vsphere-8.
Introducing vSphere Distributed Services Engine, formerly Project Monterey. vSphere Distributed Services Engine unlocks the power of Data Processing Units (DPUs) for hardware accelerated data processing to improve infrastructure performance, boost infrastructure security and simplify DPU lifecycle management. vSphere 8 makes using DPUs easy for workloads to take advantage of these benefits.
Data Processing Units (DPU) exist today and live in the hardware layer, similar to a PCIe device like a NIC or GPU. Today networking, storage and host management services run in the instance of ESXi virtualizing the x86 compute layer.
In vSphere 8 GA. we support greenfield installations with support for network offloading with NSX. vSphere Distributed Services Engine is life-cycle managed using vSphere Lifecycle Manager. When remediating a host that contains a DPU ESXi installation, the DPU ESXi version is always remediated with the parent host and kept in version lock-step.
Using a vSphere Distributed Switch version 8.0 and NSX, network services are offloaded to the DPU, allowing for increased network performance with no x86 CPU overhead, enhanced visibility for the network traffic and the security, isolation and protection you would expect from NSX.
Workload Availability Zones are used to isolate workloads across vSphere clusters. supervisor clusters and Tanzu Kubernetes clusters can be deployed across zones to increase the availability of the clusters by ensuring that nodes are not sharing the same vSphere clusters.
Pinniped Integration comes to the supervisor clusters and Tanzu Kubernetes clusters. Pinniped supports LDAP and OIDC federated authentication. You can define identity providers that can be used to authenticate users to the supervisor clusters and Tanzu Kubernetes clusters.
Workload Availability Zones allows Supervisor Clusters and Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters to span across vSphere Clusters for increased availability. vSphere Namespaces span the Workload Availability Zones to support Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters being deployed for increased availability across zones.
Three Workload Availability Zones are required for availability. During Workload Management activation, you have a choice to deploy across Workload Availability Zones or deploy to the single cluster option. At vSphere 8 GA, a Workload Availability Zone has a 1:1 relationship with a vSphere cluster.
ClusterClass provides a declarative way to define a Tanzu Kubernetes cluster configuration as well as the default installed packages. The platform team can decide the infrastructure packages that must be installed at cluster creation. This might include the networking, storage or cloud providers, as well as the authentication mechanism and metrics collection. The cluster specification references the ClusterClass.
ClusterClass is an open-source specification that is part of the ClusterAPI project. ClusterAPI defines a declarative way to lifecycle manage Kubernetes clusters through an existing management Kubernetes cluster. In vSphere with Tanzu, that management cluster is the supervisor cluster.
After cluster deployment, Developers or DevOps users can optionally add additional packages from the Tanzu Standard Package Repository. These packages might include Contour for ingress to the cluster, certificate management, logging, observability with Prometheus or Grafana or external DNS. These are managed as add-ons through the Tanzu CLI interface.
In vSphere 7, authentication is performed through integration with vCenter Single Sign-On. You can continue to use vCenter Single Sign-On in vSphere 8, but you also have an alternative. Using Pinniped integration, the supervisor cluster and Tanzu Kubernetes clusters can have direct access OIDC to an Identity Provider (IDP) without relying on vCenter Single Sign-On. Pinniped pods are automatically deployed in the supervisor cluster and Tanzu Kubernetes clusters to facilitate the integration.
vSphere 8 introduces DPU support for vSphere Lifecycle Manager to automatically remediate the ESXi installation on a DPU in lock-step with the host ESXi version. Staging of update/upgrade payloads, parallel remediation and standalone host support combine to bring vLCM up to feature parity with Update Manager. Standalone hosts can be managed using vSphere Lifecycle Manager via API. VMware Compatibility Guide details what vLCM features a Hardware Support Manager can support.
Baseline lifecycle management, previously known as vSphere Update Manager, is deprecated in vSphere 8. This means that baseline lifecycle management is still supported in vSphere 8, but that vSphere 8 will be the last release that supports baseline lifecycle management.
vSphere Lifecycle Manager can stage update payloads to the hosts in advance of remediation. Staging can be performed without maintenance mode. This reduces the time needed for the hosts to spend in maintenance mode. Firmware payloads can also be staged with integration from a supported Hardware Support Manager.
vSphere Lifecycle Manager can remediate multiple hosts in parallel, dramatically reducing the overall time needed to remediate an entire cluster. Hosts placed into maintenance mode can be remediated in parallel. A vSphere administrator can choose to remediate all hosts in maintenance mode or define the number of parallel remediations to perform at a given time. Hosts not placed into maintenance mode are not remediated during this lifecycle operation.
Desired configuration is defined at the cluster object and applied to all hosts in the cluster. All hosts in the cluster have a consistent configuration applied. Configuration drift is monitored for and notified about. A vSphere Administrator can remediate the configuration drift.
The distributed key-value store is the source of truth for the state of the cluster. If vCenter is restored from a backup, it will reconcile the cluster state and configuration with the distributed key-value store. In vSphere 8 GA, host-cluster membership is reconciled with additional configuration and state planned for support in future releases.
Device groups can be composed of two or more hardware devices that share a common PCIe switch or devices that share a direct interconnect between each other. Device groups are discovered at the hardware layer and presented to vSphere as a single unit that represents the group.
Device Groups are added to virtual machines using the existing Add New PCI Device workflows. vSphere DRS and vSphere HA are aware of device groups and will place VMs appropriately to satisfy the device group.
Enhanced VMDirectPath I/O (also known as Device Virtualization Extensions or DVX) builds on Dynamic DirectPath I/O and introduces a new framework and API for vendors to create hardware-backed virtual devices. Enhanced VMDirectPath I/O allows greater support for virtualization features such as live migration using vSphere vMotion, suspending and resuming a virtual machine and support for disk and memory snapshots.
A compatible driver must be installed on the ESXi hosts and accompanied with a corresponding guest OS driver for the virtual device equivalent. A virtual machine consuming an Enhanced VMDirectPath I/O virtual device can be migrated using vSphere vMotion to another host that supports that same virtual device.
Virtual Hardware version 20 is the latest virtual hardware version. The theme for hardware version 20 brings new virtual hardware innovations, enhances guest services for applications, and increases performance and scale for certain workloads.
Introducing TPM Provision Policy. Windows 11 requires vTPM devices to be present in virtual machines. Cloning a VM with a vTPM VM can introduce a security risk as TPM secrets are cloned.
In vSphere 8 vTPM devices can be automatically replaced during clone or deployment operations. This allows best practices that each VM contain a unique TPM device be followed and improves vSphere support for Windows 11 deployment at scale. vSphere 8.0 also includes the vpxd.clone.tpmProvisionPolicy advanced setting to make the default clone behaviour for vTPMs to be replace.
Certain applications cannot tolerate the stuns associated with vSphere vMotion. These applications can be written to be migration aware to improve their interoperability with vSphere vMotion. Applications can prepare for a migration event. This could be gracefully stopping services or performing a failover in the case of a clustered application. The application can delay the start of the migration up until the configured timeout but cannot decline or prevent the migration from occurring.
Emerging Telco workloads require increased support for latency sensitivity applications. High Latency Sensitivity with Hyper-threading is designed to support these workloads and deliver improved performance. A virtual machine's vCPU are scheduled on the same hyper-threaded physical CPU core.
vSphere DataSets provide an easy method distribute small, infrequently changing data between the vSphere management layer and a guest operating system running in a virtual machine with VMware Tools installed. Uses cases may include Guest deployment status, Guest agent configuration or Guest inventory management. vSphere DataSets live with the VM object, and will move with the VM if migrated, even across vCenter Server instances.
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