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Dopo un periodo in technical preview period e dopo l’annuncio ufficiale, ora sia VMware Workstation 14 che Fusion 10 sono disponibili per il download.

Buona notizia, visto che solo un anno fa si temeva sul futuro di questi prodotti a causa di alcune dipartite nei rispettivi team di sviluppo di prodotto.

Virtual Hardware Platform 14

Come di consueto, nuova versione, nuovo Virtual Hardware, ora arrivato alla versione 14 (notare che il virtual hardware di vSphere 6.5 è il v13), con diverse funzionalità:

  • Microsoft Device Guard and Credential Guard “Virtualization Based Security” feature support for Windows 10 Guests (Guests only at this time)
  • A new Virtual NVMe device for faster disk access on SSD storage and a requirement for vSAN testing
  • UEFI Secure Boot, required for VBS and supported with ESXi 6.5 Virtual Guests
  • A new Virtual Trusted Platform Module which is used to manage keys for guest encryption services such as BitLocker
  • Support for the latest Intel Kabylake and AMD Ryzen CPUs

Molto interessante il controller NVMe, già presente in vSphere 6.5 nel virtual hardware 13.

Ci sono poi alcune funzionalità molto utili per i laboratori:

  • Network Latency Simulation – limitatore di banda all’interno delle opzioni Network Adapter Advanced Settings, molto utile per similare reti con vincoli di banda.
  • IP Address Display on VM Console – finalmente come in vSphere è possibile sapere l’indirizzo IP (o gli indirizzi) della macchina guest.
  • vSphere/ESXi Host Power Operation – già era possible collegarsi agli ESXi o al vCenter per gestire minimalmente le VM; ora è possibile gestire (sempre minimalmente) anche gli host ESXi.
  • Import VCSA – finalmente non servono magie per importare la vCSA!
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