vSphere Enterprise Edition is designed for the Enterprise customer. To be used in conjunction with the VMware vCenter Server** this edition premiers the following features:
| Features and Entitlements |
vRAM Entitlement |
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ESXi |
- Provides a robust, production-proven, high-performance virtualization layer
|
VC Agent |
- Connects ESXi with the vCenter Server
|
vSMP |
- 8 Way - Virtual symmetric multi-processing (SMP) enables virtual machines to have multiple virtual CPUs
|
Update Manager |
- Automates the tracking, patching and updating of vSphere server hosts, as well as the VM’s applications and operating systems
|
VMFS 5 |
- Allows virtual machines to access shared storage and enables features like vSphere Storage vMotion
|
Storage APIs for Data Protection |
- Support for 3rd party software to backup VMs via APIs without disrupting applications or users, or causing backup
task overhead
|
High Availability |
- Automatically restarts your VMs following physical machine failure
|
Thin Provisioning |
- Dynamic storage that expands to meet VM requirements with no performance degradation and reduce storage needs
|
Data Recovery |
- Protect your data through fast agent-less backups to disk, with de-duplication to minimize use of backup disk space
|
vMotion |
- Eliminate application downtime from planned server maintenance by migrating running VMs between hosts
|
Hot Add |
- Increase capacity by adding CPU and memory to virtual machines when needed without disruption or downtime
|
Fault Tolerance |
- Provide continuous uninterrupted availability for applications with zero data loss in the event of server failures
|
vShieldTM Zones |
- Simplify security management by configuring and maintaining your multiple zones of security within software among shared hosts
rather than across separate siloed physical environments
|
Storage vMotion |
- Avoid application downtime for planned storage maintenance by migrating live VM disk files across storage arrays
|
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and Distributed Power Management (DPM) |
- Automatically load balance across hosts and optimize power consumption by turning off hosts during lower load periods
|
Storage APIs for Array Integration and Multipathing |
- Improve performance and scalability by leveraging efficient array-based operations
|
Virtual Serial Port Concentrator |
- Connect over the network via the serial port concentrator to the serial port console on any server
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**Required to be run with vCenter Server (either in an existing setup or with a separate new purchase.