Table of Contents

vSphere Distributed Services Engine

• Emergence of the Data Processing Unit

• Meet vSphere Distributed Services Engine

• Simple Configuration for Network Offloads

vSphere with Tanzu

• Improving Workload Resilience in Modern Apps

• Define It Once, Use It Many Times

• Flexible Package Management

• Bring Your Own Identity Provider

Lifecycle Management

• Deprecation Awareness

• Stage Cluster Image Updates to Speed Up Remediation

• Quicker Cluster Remediation

• Configuration Management at Scale

• Enhanced Recovery of vCenter

AI & ML

• Unified Management for AI/ML Hardware Accelerators

• Simplified Hardware Consumption with Device Groups

• Next-Generation of Virtual Hardware Devices

Guest OS & Workloads

• Virtual Hardware Version 20

• Deploy Windows 11 at Scale

• Reduce Outages by Preparing Applications for Migration

• Maximize Performance for Latency Sensitive Workloads

• Simplified Virtual NUMA Configuration

• API Driven vSphere and Guest Data Sharing

Resource Management

• Enhanced DRS Performance

• Monitor Energy and Carbon Emissions

Security & Compliance

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VMware vSphere 8 is the enterprise workload platform that brings the benefits of cloud to on-premises workloads. It supercharges performance with DPU and GPU based acceleration, enhances operational efficiency through the VMware Cloud Console, seamlessly integrates with add-on hybrid cloud services, and accelerates innovation with an enterprise-ready integrated Kubernetes runtime that runs containers alongside VMs.

vSphere Distributed Services Engine

Introducing vSphere Distributed Services Engine, formerly Project Monterey. vSphere Distributed Services Engine unlocks the power of Data Processing Units (DPUs) for hardware accelerated data processing to improve infrastructure performance, boost infrastructure security and simplify DPU lifecycle management. vSphere 8 makes using DPUs easy for workloads to take advantage of these benefits.

Emergence of the Data Processing Unit

Data Processing Units (DPU) exist today and live in the hardware layer, similar to a PCIe device like a NIC or GPU. Today networking, storage and host management services run in the instance of ESXi virtualizing the x86 compute layer.

For more on Data Processing Units:

The rise of DPUs in the Infrastructure

Meet vSphere Distributed Services Engine

In vSphere 8, an additional instance of ESXi is installed directly on the Data Processing Unit. This allows ESXi services to be offloaded to the DPU for increased performance.

In vSphere 8 GA. we support greenfield installations with support for network offloading with NSX. vSphere Distributed Services Engine is life-cycle managed using vSphere Lifecycle Manager. When remediating a host that contains a DPU ESXi installation, the DPU ESXi version is always remediated with the parent host and kept in version lock-step.

Simple Configuration for Network Offloads

Using a vSphere Distributed Switch version 8.0 and NSX, network services are offloaded to the DPU, allowing for increased network performance with no x86 CPU overhead, enhanced visibility for the network traffic and the security, isolation and protection you would expect from NSX.