VMware vSphere 5.5 what’s new
Now that VMworld 2013 is now over and a number of key product updates announced I thought it was worth highlighting some of enhancements and improvements that stretch across the entire stack with vSphere 5.5. As you can see from the summary below this release is a major step forward to VMware's strategic move toward the fully software defined data center. Flash Read Cache This completely new feature in vSphere 5.5 provides a mechanism for utilizing fast SSD as a Linux host swap cache or to provide improved read speed for a host virtual disk. To make use of this feature, you first have…