Today VMware is announcing the long awaited release of vSphere 7. There was a lot of talk about it at VMworld 2019. It was mentioned in various sessions but there were no official announcements. It only took a few more months of waiting! The official announcement is today, March 10th, 2020 with a release date sometime in April I’ve been told. With vSphere 6.0 going End of General Support this week the new version can’t come soon enough.
Due to my recently renewed vExpert status, I was lucky enough to sit on several NDA briefings over the last two weeks. The first of which I’ll be talking about here, was focused on Compute. That basically encompasses the base vSphere products of ESXi and vCenter and the new features and capabilities in vSphere 7. Let’s dig in and see what this is all about! Continue reading