VMware finally announced vSphere 6.5 to be GA on Nov 15. Please find the link for VMware Announcement
Highlights of vSphere 6.5:
- Support for VVol Replication
- External protocol support for VSAN
- Photon Platform support for VSAN
- VM-level native encryption via SPBM
- VM encryption and encrypted vMotion is now available
- HTML5 vSphere Client
- The vSphere Web Client is accessible via https://vcenter/vsphere-client
- The vSphere Client is accessible via https://vcenter/ui
- Automatic Space Reclamation
- vCenter High Availability
- HA Orchestrated Restart
You can find new features and improvements in below links:
What’s New in VMware vSphere® 6.5
VMware vSphere 6.5 Release Notes
Functionality Updates for the vSphere Client
VMware Virtual SAN 6.5 Release Notes
What’s New in vSphere 6.5: vCenter Server
What’s new in vSphere 6.5: Security
What’s New in vSphere 6.5: Host & Resource Management and Operations
Download links:
ESXi 6.5
Free ESXi 6.5
vCenter Server (Windows/VCSA) 6.5
vSAN Witness Appliance 6.5
vSphere Replication 6.5
Site Recovery Manager 6.5
vSphere Data Protection 6.1.3
vRealize Log Insight 4.0
vRealize Operations Manager 6.4
vRealize Business for Cloud 7.2
vSphere PowerCLI 6.5
vSphere vMA 6.5
vSphere CLI 6.5
Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) 6.5
OVFTool 4.2
TLS Configurator Tool for vSphere 6.5
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