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What’s New in the VMware vSphere 6.0 Platform
Figure 9. Multisite Content Library Access Capabilities
This “store once, share many” architecture reduces the time associated with distributing templates manually,
enabling more time to be spent performing more-important administrative tasks.
Additionally, the number of simultaneous transfers and the consumed bandwidth are configurable to prevent
the saturation of WAN connections in bandwidth-constrained environments. Synchronization tasks can be
scheduled to be performed during nonpeak hours when more bandwidth is available for content replication.
vSphere Storage Enhancements
Virtual Volumes
Virtual Volumes is a new virtual machine disk management and integration framework that enables array-based
operations at the virtual disk level. It transforms the data plane of SAN and NAS storage systems by aligning
storage consumption and operations with virtual machines. In other words, Virtual Volumes makes SAN and
NAS storage systems capable of being managed at a virtual machine level and enables the leveraging of array-
based data services and storage array capabilities with a virtual machine–centric approach at the granularity of
a single virtual disk.
Virtual Volumes implements a significantly dierent and improved storage architecture, enabling operations to
be conducted at the virtual machine level using native array capabilities. With Virtual Volumes, most data
operations are ooaded to the storage arrays.
Virtual Volumes eliminates the need to provision and manage large numbers of LUNs or volumes per host. This
reduces operational overhead while enabling scalable data services on a per–virtual machine level.
Storage Policy–Based Management (SPBM) is a key technology that works in conjunction with Virtual Volumes.
This framework delivers an orchestration and automation engine that translates the storage requirements
expressed in a virtual machine storage policy into virtual machine granular provisioning capabilities with
dynamic resource allocation and management of storage-related services.
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