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10 Big New Benefits of vSphere That You Absolutely Need to Know

Yes, this is the VMware vSphere session you’ve been looking for! 

vSphere is the enterprise workload platform that ushers in the era of heterogeneous computing by bringing DPUs into the fold along with CPUs and GPUs—making the future of modern infrastructure accessible to all enterprises. 

vSphere unleashes key innovations to help customers supercharge workload performance, accelerate innovation for DevOps teams, improve operational efficiency and IT productivity, and bring the benefits of the cloud to their on-premises infrastructure. 

Watch this session to get the latest and greatest on what’s new with vSphere. We will give you an overview of the top capabilities of vSphere that matter most for you, as well as technical details with the newest demos, and cover 10 new and exciting things about vSphere that you absolutely need to know.


Don’t have time to watch the full session? Here’s a rundown of key takeaways: 

1. Enhance On-Prem Workloads with Cloud Services: Bring cloud benefits to on-prem without having to change your infrastructure, migrate workloads, or change configuration. While offering value-adds like fleetwide lifecycle management, disaster recovery, and protection against ransomware. 

2. Fleetwide ESXi Lifecycle Management: Significantly enhance productivity by managing updates for an entire ESXi fleet centrally from the VMware Cloud Console, thus minimizing the efforts and time required for individual updates.

3. New DevOps Services: Innovative DevOps services facilitates speedy set-up of Supervisor Clusters, replication of standardized configurations across multiple clusters, and self-service provisioning of VMs.

4. vSphere on DPUs: Unlock the potential of DPUs, enabling it to offload network services and functionality for improved performance with hardware acceleration and maintain a secure operating model.

5. Powering AI/ML Workloads and VMware Private AI: Run comprehensive AI/ML models with generous vGPU and passthrough device allocations, while VMware Private AI provides an architectural approach that balances the business gains from AI with the privacy and compliance needs of the organization.

6. Declarative Cluster Lifecycle Management: Optimize IT maintenance by facilitating faster maintenance via ESXi image pre-staging and concurrent remediation of multiple hosts.

7. Security and Identity Federation: Leverage modern authentication processes with various identity providers and multi-factor authentication options, ensuring strong security and compliance measures.

8. Reduced Downtime Upgrades for vCenter: Upgrade vCenter with minimal downtime, reducing service disruption times to around 5 minutes, using a migration-based approach.

9. vCenter Maintenance Resilience: Make vCenter maintenance operations a breeze with resilient patching, seamless certificate management, and reliable network configuration recovery, enhancing overall maintenance operations.

10. Sustainable IT Footprint: Take advantage of Green Metrics, enabling users to track their infrastructure’s environmental impact and promote sustainability.

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