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capacity by adding servers as needed. VMware Virtual SAN
will be available via a free public beta program in Q3 2013.
• VMware vCloud Suite 5.5 – New Release of the Leading Cloud Infrastructure and Management Suite
Additionally the company introduced VMware vCloud Suite
5.5, which features new and enhanced product functionality
as well as broad product integrations. The VMware vCloud
Suite will enable customers to build and operate a vSpherebased private cloud using the software-defined data centre

architecture, providing virtualised infrastructure services
with built-in intelligence to automate on-demand provisioning, placement, configuration and control of applications
based on policies. The comprehensive, integrated private
cloud infrastructure solution simplifies IT operations while
also delivering the best SLAs for all applications.
The VMware vCloud Suite is built on the foundation of
VMware vSphere, the world’s leading virtualisation platform.
With VMware vSphere 5.5, VMware continues to evolve
vSphere to provide customers with the best platform for all
their applications including new workloads through new and
enhanced compute, availability, storage and backup capabilities. To improve the availability of business-critical applications, VMware vSphere 5.5 introduces vSphere App HA

to detect and recover from application or operating system
failure. New VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache virtualises
server-side flash to lower application latency dramatically.
To further improve the response time of latency-sensitive
applications, VMware vSphere 5.5 introduces a low-latency
sensitivity feature. VMware vSphere 5.5 enables configurations two times the previous physical CPU, memory and
NUMA node limits.
With VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions, customers can
now run Apache Hadoop and Big Data workloads on VMware vSphere 5.5, alongside other applications, to achieve
greater resource utilisation, reliability and agility. In addition,
VMware vSphere 5.5 now supports next-generation Intel
Xeon processor E5 v2 and Intel Atom Processor C2000.
VMware vCloud Automation Centre and VMware vCenter
Operations Management Suite capabilities have been added to all VMware vCloud Suite 5.5 editions. VMware vCloud
Automation Centre provides the agility customers need with
the control they require through a flexible solution for automating the delivery of IT applications and services. VMware
vCenter Operations Management Suite offers integrated,
proactive performance, capacity and configuration management capabilities for dynamic cloud environments. VMware
vCloud Suite 5.5 also features new releases of VMware
vCloud Connector, VMware vCloud Director, VMware
vCloud Networking and Security, and VMware vCenter Site
Recovery Manager.
• VMware vSphere with Operations
Management 5.5 – Optimise Virtual
Platform Capacity
Introduced in February 2013, VMware
vSphere with Operations Management
combines the industry-leading vSphere
virtualisation platform with insight to workload capacity and

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