VMware vSphere 8 Released New Features!

Big news today! VMware vSphere 8 was released. It is a major new release of VMware vSphere announced at VMware Explore 2022. We take a look at some of the major features of the announcements with the new vSphere release.

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Introduction - 0:00
Guest OS and virtual machine hardware version 20 - 00:50
Deploy Windows 11 at scale - 2:10
The new vSphere Dataset - 3:44
The new Device Group feature in vSphere 8 - 4:53
Loading vSphere 8 on data processing units (DPUs) such as SmartNICs - 6:01
New updates to vSphere Lifecycle Management - 7:46
It can in lock step keep the vSphere installation on the DPU aligned with that on your host - 8:02
Deprecation of vSphere Update Manager (VUM) - 8:22
Speed up the cluster remediation by staging updates before maintenance mode - 8:45
Parallel remediation of vSphere cluster hosts - 9:25
New confitguration management feature in vSphere 8 - 9:58
Migration aware vMotion operations - 10:59
High latency sensitivity with hyper-threading - 11:50
More control and visibility to virtual NUMA nodes and CPU configuration - 12:54
Wrapping up the overview of new features found in VMware vSphere 8 - 14:08

Take a look at my write up of features of VMware vSphere 8 here:

Take a look at the official VMware blog post here:

[shinigamilee]

Great review, yet I can't help feeling like I stepped into a 1999 Network Dungen looking at the LED bling server rack in the background. Nostalgic, but missing hand-painted craftmanship. 😀

[g.s.]

Great, it would be nice a video that shows how to upgrade ESXi and Vsphere.

[snx]

its 1:30 am, im stoned af and have to work in the morning. Why am i watching this?
Anyways:
Great Video!

[juliagune]

Awesome features specially for vNUMA customization

[isunknown]

Hi, Brandon! Could you suggest a good hosting provider for renting a dedicated server with the resources needed to do a VMWare setup, excluding cloud providers? e.g. ESXi, vCenter, vSphere Tanzu setup. Thank you!

[janfranko]

Hello there, ESXI 8.0 - I tried to change boot.cfg same with shift + O and command systemMediaSize= min or small is not working, have we here another options or commands for changing VMFSL partition size ? default 120gb seems to be just too much... Thank you

[g.s.]

Hi my friend I have a question: I have ubuntu desktop virtualized on vsphere, and everything works, than I attach an nvidia vidocard via passthrough (I want to use it as compute modulke not videocard) and when I turn back on the ubuntu I do not see the screen anymore as if it was used as video card. on the other side I have ubuntu server without desktop working perfectly with nvidia card connected as passthrought. the card is seen as compute module. what can I do in the first case? I would like to use the desktop and at the same use the nvidia as compute module and not as video card..

[lashlarue]

Was vSphere actually released this week in that its available for download or was it just announced this week? If so what is the release date? I've been trying to find that but not having any luck on the VMware site. Also I'm curious if they finally dropped support for version 2 Xeons, which would be a bad hit for people who use these in test environments.

[MachuPichuu]

How is the new Configuration management features different that using host profiles, and host customizations that have been around forever and everyone should already be using?

[kml]

Do you know is Vsphere 8 allows VBS to be enabled along with Virtual GPU/PCI passthrough ?

[esra_erimez]

My company never moved to vSphere 7 and they are currently migrating everything to Hyper-V.

[mandeepmails]

Would love to see compatible cpu list before choosing my next rig

[VirtualTechBox]

From when it would be available for download.

[rachidgharbi]

When will be available for download Please ?

[adrianthompson]

I have to add, got my homelab up and running which, I've done since 2007 with ESXi, I've done lots of work that’s got hundreds of production vmware instances up and running. I've come to a dilemma which is a bit worrying, I'm trying to get my vmware ESXi 8 perpetual license for my test lab, and like many many other people can't get a license to rid myself of the 60-day worry. To be fair, I can simply reinstall ESXi every 60 days if it comes down to it, but it's going to be a a chore. Now with all the worry of the hostile (as in no one in VMWare wanted it) takeover, will they just concentrate on enterprise companies? I'm only a contractor myself, but I like testing things before getting things into production, and ESXi has allowed me to do this for over 15 years. I'm happy with my OpenBSD instance and VM's from Linux, FreeBSD to windows for testing and getting the job done. Can you check out the license issues VMWare are currently encountering, I refuse to believe this is technical, they are far too smart to allow this problem to persist for 12 days. I wonder what is going on over there!

[satexan]

First thank you for sharing. We've only had vSphere 7 approved (love "approval processes") and operating for a few months so I haven't messed with image based yet. Can anyone link a good how to video...I can only use the vSphere Cisco custom image to load my hosts (80) and that's only updated once a year. All my systems are "Air Gapped" (no internet access) so wherever this repository of updated images (I'm assuming released/updated with every patch?) that would be good....Update Manager is great...puzzling when they would throw it away.

[MikeHarris]

Where is the Vsphere 8 download on vmware??? I can't find it anywhere.

[hafizahmedilyasmalikahmima]

Dear, I have a problem while installing Vmware Vsphere 8.0. My Intel NIC 8610 driver is not found in installing 8.0. can you please help me?

[maoryatskan]

Unfortunately I'm not seeing innovation here

[benjaminphilips]

You must use a Chinese phone for the video because the phone really whitening and soften your face.