VMware by Broadcom has released vCenter 8.0 update 3, ESXi 8.0 Update 3 and vSAN 8.0 Update 3.
NOTES June 25th, 20224: Before updating, check if all you system that connects to vSphere are compatible with this new release, like backup, operations, automation and other.
NOTES June 25th, 20224: vCenter is GA but ESXi is only IA
vCenter 8.0 update 3/ ESXi 8.0 Update 3
What’s new
- DPU/SmartNIC
- High Availability with VMware vSphere Distributed Services Engine
- Support for running vSphere IaaS control plane on vSAN stretched clusters
- Bew Virtual Machine Compute Policy for Best Effort Virtual Machine Evacuation
- Introducing Embedded vSphere Cluster Service (vCLS)
- vSAN add-on licenses based on capacity per tebibyte (TiB)
- TLS 1.3 and 1.2 support by using TLS profiles
- Memory TieringFabric Notification support for SAN clusterSupport for space reclamation requests from guest operating systems on NVMe-backed vSphere Virtual Volumes datastores and Config-vVolManage the UNMAP load from ESXi hosts at a VMFS datastore levelWindows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) enhancements on vSphere Virtual VolumesSupport for active-active vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) with vSphere Virtual VolumesVMkernel port binding for NFS v4.1 datastoresSupport for nConnect for NFS v4.1 datastoresReduced time to inflate VMFS disksImproved resiliency against memory corruption on RAM-heavy ESXi hostsAdvanced setting to block deletion and removal of disks for VMs with snapshotsHardware accelerated move (clone operation) support on NVMe devicesGranular monitoring for VASA provider accessibility and certification authentication status on ESXi host level
- Guest customization supports RHEL NetworkManager keyfile format
- There are updated drivers and more, see the release notes
- PCIe hot plug is updated for server platforms utilizing newer generation AMD Genoa and Intel Sapphire Rapid CPUsSupport for Intel Xeon Max Series processors with integrated High Bandwidth Memory (HBM)CPU C-State Power virtualizationCluster-wide option to retain virtual NUMA topology
- vSphere green metrics with Running Average Power Limit (RAPL) technologyet VM log levels without powering off the VM
- Support for switching between Time Sliced and Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) modes for NVIDIA virtual GPUsZero-copy support for vGPUs to enhance vSphere vMotion and vSphere DRS tasks:Support for heterogeneous vGPU profiles on physical GPUs
- Support for parallel hardware and firmware upgrade with vSphere Lifecycle ManagerVMware Photon 5.0 support for Update Manager Download Service (UMDS)Additional lifecycle management capabilities for standalone ESXi hostsLifecycle management of standalone ESXi hosts with VMware NSXConvert baseline-managed clusters to clusters managed by a single vSphere Lifecycle Manager imagePatch VMX-related security vulnerabilities without any disruption to your workloadsCustomize vSphere Lifecycle Manager desired state imagesSupport for dual DPUs with vSphere Lifecycle ManagerExtended support for vSphere Configuration Profiles (VCP)
- Support to baseline-managed clusters (formerly referred to as VUM clusters)Support for vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS)Firewall ruleset managementESXi Lockdown ModeSupport for SNMP and PCI device configurations
- Warning on the maximum number of remote https connections for vCenterMerging the vSAN Management SDK with the Python SDK for the VMware vSphere APIvCenter Universally Unique Identifier (VC_UUID) field in the vSphere Client:Default HTTP response compressionRemove restrictions on virtual machine operations from the vSphere ClientUnified Management and Automation API SessionsMigration of SPBM, SMS, EAM, and VLSM APIs to HTTP/JSON-based wire protocol
See the full release notes for vCenter here.
See the full release notes ESXi here.
vSAN 8.0 Update 3
What’s new
- Licensing
- Capacity-based licensing
- Stretched cluster support on vSAN ESA (VCF 5.2)vSAN Max as principal storage (VCF 5.2)vSAN File Services up to 250 file shares
- vSAN local data protection leveraging ESA scalable snapshotsIntegration with VMware Live Cyber Recovery (VLCR), for faster ransomware recovery
- Congestion remediationAdaptive delete congestion
- Proactive hardware management for vSAN ESA storage devicesData-at-rest encryption deactivation for vSAN ESACustomizable alarm thresholds for NVMe storage devices in vSAN ESAvSAN I/O Trip Analyzer cluster level viewEnhanced awareness of vSAN Max using Aria OperationsFederated vSAN health monitoring in Aria Operations
See the full release notes here.
