Besides bumping their virtualization-platform to version 6.5, VMware also added some new features to the SDS-solution in the new version of VSAN it announced. This quick article talks about the main new features which stood out according to us.
VSAN Version History
To give a idea what the main new features were in the previous releases of VSAN here, a short overview:
| Version | Timeframe | Added features |
| VSAN (1.0) 5.5 | March 2014 | Inital Version |
| VSAN 6.0 | March 2015 | All-flash 64 Node cluster 2x Hybrid Speed |
| VSAN 6.1 | September 2015 | Stretched Cluster Replication RPO of 5 minutes 2-node ROBO |
| VSAN 6.2 | March 2016 | Deduplication Compression QoS |
We really enjoy the pace in which this product is being developed and in such a incredible pace. Keep it going guys!
The main new features for this 6.5 release which is announced during VMworld EMEA 2016 (Oktober 2016) according to us among others are:
- iSCSI-Access
- Direct Connect for ROBO