VMware announced that the successor of vSphere 6.0 will be vSphere 6.5, planned to be released by the end of 2016 year.
It’s a very good news for many virtualized environments as there are a lot of new features which could make our infrastructures even more secure and reliable.

You can read more about the new release at VMware blog here.

The most important features are:

• Security Enhancements
  • Enhanced Logging
  • VM Encryption
  • Backup and Restore encrypted VMs
  • Encrypted vMotion
  • Secure Boot – ESXi and VMs
• Storage Enhancements
  • VMFS6 & 512e HDD Support
  • Automatic UNMAP
  • New scale limits for paths & LUNs
  • Stronger Security with NFS 4.1
• vCenter Enhancements
  • VCSA new default deployment choice
  • VCSA deployment and migration options
  • VCSA monitoring and recovery options
  • vCenter Server HA
  • vCenter Server content library
• HTML 5 vSphere Client
• ProactiveHA
• HA Orchestrated Restart
• Network-Aware DRS
• vCenter Backup and Restore
• Auto Deploy integraded with Web Client
• vSphere Update Manager built-in vCenter Server Appliance.