WHAT'S NEW IN VMWARE VSPHERE 6.7 Figure 5. New Disk Utilization Screen File-Based Backup was first introduced in v Sphere 6.5 under the summary b: now it has its own tab. a scheduler is the first available option, front and center, when going to the Backup tab. Now users can schedule backups of their v Center Server Appliance instances and can select how many backups to retain. Activities is another new section for File-Based Backup. When the backup job is complete, it is logged in the Activities section with detailed information. Discussion of backup leads to mention of restore. The restore workflow now includes a backup archive browser. The browser displays all backups without requiring informatic on the entire backup path Create Backup Schedule Larre mber of boons to ean Betan al boos Ware WHITE PAPER I 11
WHITE PAPER | 1 1 WHAT’S NEW IN VMWARE vSPHERE 6.7 Figure 5. New Disk Utilization Screen File-Based Backup was first introduced in vSphere 6.5 under the Summary tab; now it has its own tab. A scheduler is the first available option, front and center, when going to the Backup tab. Now users can schedule backups of their vCenter Server Appliance instances and can select how many backups to retain. Activities is another new section for File-Based Backup. When the backup job is complete, it is logged in the Activities section with detailed information. Discussion of backup leads to mention of restore. The restore workflow now includes a backup archive browser. The browser displays all backups without requiring information on the entire backup path. Figure 6. vCenter Server Appliance Backup Scheduler
WHAT'S NEW IN VMWARE VSPHERE 6.7 Services is another new tab within the VAMI. Formerly located within VMware vSphere Web Client, it is now in the vAMi for out-of-band troubleshooting All of the services that compose vCenter Server Appliance-startup type, health and state-are visible here. Options are provided to start, stop, and restart services Although the syslog and Update tabs are not new to the aMI. there are improvements in these areas as well. Syslog now supports as many as three syslog forwarding targets. v Sphere 6.5 supported forwarding to only one. There is now more flexibility in patching and updating. From the Update tab, there is the option to select which patch or update to apply. Users also have more information including type, severity, and if a reboot is necessary. Expanding a patch or update in the view will display more information regarding what is included. Last, we can no stage and install a patch or update from the VAM. This capability was previous ow available only from the command. terface (CLD. Sphere Client Significant attention has also been given to the htMl5-based vSphere Client. With v Sphere 6.5. VMware introduced a supported version of the vSphere Client. Included in vCenter Server Appliance, it had only partial functionality. The vSphere team has worked hard to get the vSphere Client closer to feature parity. Based on customer feedback, the team has been optimizing and improving workflows. v Sphere 6.7 also marks the final release of the Flash-based vSphere Web Client. The following are among the newer workflows in the updated v Sphere Client release: vSphere Update Manager Content library Storage policies VMware vSphere Distributed Switch" topology diagram Some of these workflows are not feature complete. We will continue to update the vSphere Client in future v Sphere maintenance-that is, patch and update-releases There is now one fewer client, because Platform Services Controller Ul (/psc) functionality is now part of the vsphere Client. Located within the Administration menu, Platform Services Controller options are divided between two tabs: Certificate management has its own tab: all other management is under the Configuration tab Ware WHITE PAPER I 12
WHITE PAPER | 1 2 WHAT’S NEW IN VMWARE vSPHERE 6.7 Services is another new tab within the VAMI. Formerly located within VMware vSphere Web Client, it is now in the VAMI for out-of-band troubleshooting. All of the services that compose vCenter Server Appliance—startup type, health, and state—are visible here. Options are provided to start, stop, and restart services if needed. Although the Syslog and Update tabs are not new to the VAMI, there are improvements in these areas as well. Syslog now supports as many as three syslog forwarding targets. vSphere 6.5 supported forwarding to only one. There is now more flexibility in patching and updating. From the Update tab, there is the option to select which patch or update to apply. Users also have more information, including type, severity, and if a reboot is necessary. Expanding a patch or update in the view will display more information regarding what is included. Last, we can now stage and install a patch or update from the VAMI. This capability was previously available only from the command-line interface (CLI). vSphere Client Significant attention has also been given to the HTML5-based vSphere Client. With vSphere 6.5, VMware introduced a supported version of the vSphere Client. Included in vCenter Server Appliance, it had only partial functionality. The vSphere team has worked hard to get the vSphere Client closer to feature parity. Based on customer feedback, the team has been optimizing and improving workflows. vSphere 6.7 also marks the final release of the Flash-based vSphere Web Client. The following are among the newer workflows in the updated vSphere Client release: • vSphere Update Manager • Content library • vSAN • Storage policies • Host profiles • VMware vSphere Distributed Switch™ topology diagram • Licensing Some of these workflows are not feature complete. We will continue to update the vSphere Client in future vSphere maintenance—that is, patch and update—releases. There is now one fewer client, because Platform Services Controller UI (/psc) functionality is now part of the vSphere Client. Located within the Administration menu, Platform Services Controller options are divided between two tabs: Certificate management has its own tab; all other management is under the Configuration tab