New architecture: all-in-one. Those. All components for control are enclosed in it.


Vcenter Ha Cluster.
For ease of migration to the new Applaens - VCenter Server Appliance Migration Tool.
New API (Rest-Based Apis for VM Management) to simplify automation and infrastructure management.
Finally, the official VSphere Client web client based on HTML5.
Update VMware Update Manager, Host Profiles and Auto Deploy. It is simplified in service.
Proactive ha. When problems with the host, the host can be led to quarantine, and to fulfill the VM to fulfill it, before the problem really fails.
VSphere HA Orchestrated Restart. Policies of VM dependencies when rebooting after HA is triggered.
Fault Tolerance is integrated with DRS to determine the optimal host and storage for the shadow copy of the VM. And the FT works through several network adapters.
Many extensions in the work of DRS and others.
Safe download for hosts and VM.
Encryption with VMotion.
Encryption of VM discs.
Advanced audit.
Managing with policies.


After patching ESXi to 7.0 Update 3 - HA can no longer be successfully enabled
When trying to enable HA, the installation of the HA agent (FDM) starts, and the status switches into "Waiting for cluster election to complete", only to fail and start over again
The HA status for the ESXi host is stuck at "Uninitialized"
In some cases the HA enablement task fails with "Cannot find vSphere HA master agent"
Migrating or powering on VMs in an HA enabled cluster fail
In /var/run/log/esxupdate.log on the ESXi, you find the following entries:


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