The release of vSAN 6.6 came with a tremendous ‘what’s new feature set’ brining VMware’s software-defined storage and hyper-converged solution to the next level. Many bloggers out there in the community did a great to job to explain the details of the following new features:
- Removal of the Multicast requirement
- Encryption using existing KMS solutions (KMIP 1.1 compatible)
- Stretched Cluster enhancements (changing of witness hosts and secondary level of failure protections within a site)
- Re-synchronization enhancements (including throttling)
- Web Client independant vSAN monitoring User Interface
- Performance enhancements
- Maintenance Mode enhancements including more information and prechecks
- New ESXCLI commands (that can be used with PowerCLI, e.g. to easily get smart data of the physical devies)
- and many more…