Fusion 11 and Fusion 11 Pro: Available Now!
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Hot on the heels of macOS Mojave’s release today, we’re proud to announce that our latest major upgrade to Fusion: VMware Fusion 11 and Fusion 11 Pro, is available now!
We are incredibly proud of this release as we continue to focus on developer workflows and increasing our automation capabilities, while still improving on GPU and overall performance, stability and security.
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This release delivers many new features and platform enhancements such as:
Enhanced Metal Graphics Rendering Engine with Direct3D 10.1
Fusion 11 and Fusion 11 Pro both default to the new Enhanced Metal Graphics Rendering Engine on supported hosts, and has been updated to deliver DirectX 10.1 compatibility. Now supporting Anti-Aliasing as well as Geometry shaders, games and apps which require DirectX 10.1, or which fallback to 10.1 from DirectX 11, will now run in a Windows 7, 8 or 10 virtual machine.
Updated User Interface, Application Menu
Fusion 11 delivers an all new Application Menu for quickly accessing VM inventory, changing view modes, settings, snapshots, or launching Windows applications from a single click. The Application Menu can run with or without Fusion, allowing users to launch and control VMs at an instant.
New Finder integration at the top of the VM Window allows users to quickly navigate to anywhere in the running VM’s folder tree, supporting drag and drop file location printing (Drag the VM name to Terminal or any text-input field, it prints the vm’s file path)
Includes added support for customizing the Touch Bar for equipped Macs using new contextual functions for the VM Library and the VM Window.
Improved: Fusion REST API v1.2
Introduced in Fusion 10 Pro, the Fusion REST API has new controls for configuring Virtual Networking such as Mac-IP DHCP bindings, NAT Port Forwarding control and more.
One-Click SSH
Fusion 11 and Fusion 11 Pro can rapidly connect to any Linux VM running an OpenSSH or compatible service with a single click from the VM Library Window. You can choose to save the password to avoid entering it in each time.
New vSphere View
In addition to supporting ESXi 6.7 and the deployment of vCenter Server Appliance 6.7, VMware Fusion 11 Pro can now view into Hosts and Cluster detail when connected to remote (or local nested!) vSphere environments. View your resources by VM, Host or Cluster to get a better look at your sphere inventory right from Fusion.
Also Included in this release:
Hardware Version 16
Fusion 11 now uses VMware Virtual Hardware Platform version 16 which contains many improvements around areas of security, performance, and stability, as well as adding support for the latest Macs, including the 18-core iMac Pro and MacBook Pro with 6-core Intel i9 CPU.
- Included in HWv16 are:
- Improved Virtual NVMe Device Performance
- Important Security Fixes (Spectre, Meltdown and L1TF)
- Virtual Trusted Platform Module
- UEFI Secure Boot
- IOMMU
- VBS Support (guest only)
- Support for the latest Host and Guest OS’s
- macOS 10.14 Mojave – Host and Guest
- Windows 10 October 2018 Update – Guest
- Windows Server 2016 updates – Guest
- Ubuntu 18.04.1, Fedora 28 – Guest
- VMware Photon OS – Guest
- VMware ESXi 6.7 – Guest
Automated Disk Cleanup
Introduced in Fusion 10 for Windows Guests, Fusion can be configured to automatically perform a ‘disk clean up‘ operation every time the VM is Shut Down to help save host disk space.
Virtual Network Simulation
Introduced in 2017, Fusion 11 Pro can also configure virtual networking, including bandwidth limits, packet loss and latency to test application resiliency in bandwidth-restricted environments
Performance, Bug and Security fixes
Fusion 11 includes many under-the-hood changes to increase performance, particularly with Virtual NVMe devices. Simply change your virtual disk type to NVMe to increase performance on SSD storage equipped Macs.
Also included are a bounty of security fixes and architectural changes to mitigate against todays latest hardware and software based threats like Spectre, Meltdown and L1TF vulnerabilities.
Another Amazing Release!
All in all we are incredibly proud of this release as we continue to focus on developer workflows and increasing our automation capabilities, while still improving on GPU and overall performance, stability and security.
Upgrade eligibility: Owners of Fusion 10 and Fusion 8 or 8.5 are eligible for upgrade pricing. Users who purchased Fusion 10 from August 21st onward will have their keys automatically upgraded in you’re My VMware account.
