Features & Design
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Legend: I – Included Features, N – Not Available
| Editions | Standard | Enterprise | Enterprise Plus |
| Overview | Server consolidation and business continuity | Resource load balancing | Enhanced application availability and performance |
| vMotion | (+ Cross Switch) | (+ Cross Switch) | (+ Cross Switch / Cross vCenter / Long Distance)) |
| Fault Tolerance | 2-vCPU | 2-vCPU | 4-vCPU |
| Reliable Memory | N | I | I |
| Big Data Extensions | N | I | I |
| Virtual Serial Port Concentrator | N | I | I |
| Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS), Distributed Power Management (DPM) | N | I | I |
| Storage DRS | N | N | I |
| Storage I/O Control | N | N | I |
| Network I/O Control | N | N | I |
| Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) Support | N | N | I |
| Flash Read Cache | N | N | I |
| NVIDIA GRID vGPU | N | N | I |
| Distributed Switch | N | N | I |
| Host Profiles and Auto Deploy | N | N | I |
The following features are included in all vSphere editions:
- Storage vMotion
- High Availability
- Data Protection
- vShield Endpoint
- Hot Add
- Virtual Volumes
- Storage Policy-Based Management
- Content Library
- Storage APIs for Array Integration, Multipathing
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Fortifies cloud performance
VMware vSphere empowers users to confidently virtualize scale-up and scale-out applications, redefine availability and simplify the virtual data center. The result is a highly available, resilient, on-demand infrastructure that is the ideal foundation for any cloud environment.
Designed and built for next-generation cloud applications
VMware vSphere 6 is built for next-generation cloud, mobile, social and in-memory applications. This means both scale-up and scale-out application virtualization can be efficient and reliable.
Reduce time to value
VMware vSphere helps your IT organization drive down data center costs, increase system and application uptime, and drastically simplify data center operations.
Engage our cloud expertise
The Dell and VMware partnership brings flexible end-to-end solutions to your cloud strategy. Run business-critical applications along with scale-up and scale-out applications, maximize hardware ROI, and improve performance with help from partners you can trust.
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Small business virtualization in a box
vSphere Essentials Plus is the ideal product for small businesses moving to virtualize their physical servers. It helps streamline server management, optimize hardware costs and increase efficiency with a low upfront investment.
All-in-one solution
The vSphere Essentials Plus kit includes six CPU licenses of vSphere Essentials (for 3 servers with up to 2 processors each) and one license for vCenter Server Essentials.
Advanced features included
Many sophisticated features are included in this bundle, such as vSphere Data Protection for agent-less backup of your data and VMs. It also includes business-continuity features, such as vSphere High Availability and vSphere vMotion, to completely eliminate planned downtime for server maintenance.
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Consistent management
vSphere provides unified and easy-to-use management capabilities purpose-built for vSphere.
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