Today, VMware finally announces vSphere 6.5 to be GA.

As I’m writing this post, I’m installing ESXi 6.5 GA in my lab:

vSphere 6.5 Release notes
http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/65/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-65-release-notes.html#whatsnew

What’s New in VMware vSphere 6.5
http://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/whitepaper/vsphere/vmw-white-paper-vsphr-whats-new-6-5.pdf

vSphere 6.5 Highlights

VMware vCenter Server 6.5

• Simple migration from Windows vCenter 5.5 and 6.0 to VCSA 6.5.
• vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface (port 5480) provides now a simple interface to monitor the vCenter database.
• Native vCenter High Availability solution. Spin up a vCenter HA cluster with two notes, one active and one passive.
• The C# client has finally been retired. The new default is the vSphere HTML5 Client and the vSphere Web Client.
• The vSphere Web Client is accessible via https://vcenter/vsphere-client
• The vSphere Client is accessible via https://vcenter/ui

VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.4

• Enhanced UI.
• Dashboard now focuses on Key Performance Indicators.

ESXi 6.5

• VM encryption and encrypted vMotion is now available.
• Host Web Client is now the default to connect to ESXi https:///ui/
  This came out of https://labs.vmware.com/flings/esxi-embedded-host-client
• Network-Aware vSphere DRS
• VMware vSphere Integrated Containers is build in by default
• Automated UNMAP for block storage solutions

By the time I was done with writing this post, the installation of ESXi 6.5 was done as well.