VMWARE VSPHERE® FEATURE COMPARISON

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VMWARE VSPHERE® FEATURE COMPARISON ACROSS VERSIONS

KEY SCALE METRICS: MAXIMUMS

vSphere v5.5

vSphere v6.0

vSphere v6.5

Host per Cluster

32

64

64

VMs per Cluster

4000

8000

8000

CPUs per Host

320

480

576

RAM per Host

4 TB

12 TB

12 TB

VMs per Host

512

1024

1024

vCPUs per VM

64

128

128

vRAM per VM

1 TB

4 TB

6 TB

vSphere v5.5

vSphere v6.0

vSphere v6.5

vMotion®

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Storage vMotion®

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Content Library

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Cross-vSwitch vMotion

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Cross-vCenter vMotion®

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Long-Distance vMotion

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KEY FEATURE / CAPABILITIES VM MOBILITY AND MANAGEMENT

Cross-Cloud vMotion

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vSphere v5.5

vSphere v6.0

vSphere v6.5

DRS (for compute and memory)

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Storage DRS

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Storage I/O Controls

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Network I/O Controls

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KEY FEATURE / CAPABILITIES RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Intelligent Workload Placement & Rebalance Network-Aware DRS

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Predictive DRS

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AVAILABILITY Fault Tolerance vSphere Replication HA VM Component Protection

1 vCPU ●

4 vCPU

4 vCPU

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Orchestrated HA Restart

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Proactive HA

●

vCenter Server HA

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STORAGE Virtual Volumes

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Storage Policy-Based Management

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NFS 4.1 support

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Automated UNMAP

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vSphere v6.0

vSphere v6.5

Multi-Factor Authentication

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vSphere Security Hardening & Compliance

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KEY FEATURE / CAPABILITIES

vSphere v5.5

SECURITY

Virtual Machine Encryption

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Secure Boot

●

Audit Quality Logging

●

ENHANCED APPLICATIONS SUPPORT Instant Clone

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NVIDIA Grid vGPU

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Integrated OpenStack (VIO)

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vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC)

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Enhanced Linked Mode

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Certificate Management

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Migration to vCenter Server Appliance

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ADMINISTRATION vCenter Server Appliance

Limited

vCenter Server Backup and Restore

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HTML5-based vSphere Client

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REST-based APIs for vCenter Server Management

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ACROSS EDITIONS

USE CASES Data Center Consolidation & Business Continuity

Standard

Enterprise Plus

vSOM Enterprise Plus

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Enhanced Application Performance & Availability

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Intelligent Operations Management & Automation

Standard

Enterprise Plus

vSOM Enterprise Plus

vMotion

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Storage vMotion

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Content Library

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Cross-vSwitch vMotion

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Cross-vCenter vMotion

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●

Long-Distance vMotion

●

●

Cross-Cloud vMotion

●

●

DRS (for compute and memory)

●

●

Storage DRS

●

●

Storage I/O Controls

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●

Network I/O Controls

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●

Network-Aware DRS

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KEY FEATURE / CAPABILITIES VM MOBILITY AND MANAGEMENT

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Predictive DRS

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Intelligent Workload Placement & Rebalance

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KEY FEATURE / CAPABILITIES

Standard

Enterprise Plus

vSOM Enterprise Plus

AVAILABILITY Fault Tolerance

1 vCPU

4 vCPU

4 vCPU

Replication

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vCenter Server HA

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HA VM Component Protection

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Orchestrated HA Restart

●

●

●

●

●

Proactive HA STORAGE Virtual Volumes

●

●

●

Storage Policy-Based Management

●

●

●

NFS 4.1 support

●

●

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Automated UNMAP

●

●

●

Multi-Factor Authentication

●

●

●

Secure Boot

●

●

●

Audit Quality Logging

●

●

●

●

●

SECURITY

Virtual Machine Encryption

●

Security Hardening & Compliance ENHANCED APPLICATIONS SUPPORT Instant Clone

●

●

NVIDA Grid vGPU

●

●

Integrated OpenStack (VIO)

●

●

vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC)

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Standard

Enterprise Plus

vSOM Enterprise Plus

vCenter Server Appliance

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Enhanced Linked Mode

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Certificate Management

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Migration to vCenter Server Appliance

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vCenter Server Backup and Restore

●

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HTML5-based vSphere Client

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REST-based APIs for vCenter Server Management

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KEY FEATURE / CAPABILITIES ADMINISTRATION

PERFORMANCE & HEALTH MANAGEMENT Operations Dashboards, Views Reports

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Predictive Analytics & Smart Alerts

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Root Cause Analysis & Recommendations

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Self-Learning Analytics & Dynamic Thresholds

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Guided Remediation

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Automated Remediation

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Role Based Access Control

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Management Pack for Storage Devices (for vSAN customers only)

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CAPACITY MANAGEMENT Capacity Metering, Trending, Right-Sizing

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Resource Optimization

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Capacity Planning, Modeling & What-If Scenarios

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