VSphere 6.0 released and we are started evaluating the features of our brand new hypervisor with our evaluation license.

Diff VCenter 5.5 appliance and vCenter on WIndows.VMware vSphere 6 Essentials: Small Business EditionsĪs separate editions for small businesses, VMWare offers VMware vSphere 6 Essentials editions. When purchasing any of the licenses described above, you also have to buy a vCenter Server Standard license. VSphere with Operations Management Enterprise – in addition to these options, Standard and Enterprise editions offer means of automatic analysis, resource and performance management. VM Encryption − encryption of virtual machine files and vMotion traffic using AES-NI.vGPU – an opportunity to share a graphic adapter (GPU) by several VMs.Cross-VC vMotion – migration of VMs between vCenter servers.Host Profiles and Auto Deploy - host profiles and automatic deployment.Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) – virtualization of a single PCIe device into several virtual devices.I/O Controls (Storage and Network) – access prioritization due to continuous I/O workload monitoring.Storage DRS – automatic balancing of disk resource workload.Distributed Switch – centralized management of the network configuration.Reliable Memory – optimal placement of VMkernel blocks in the memory.

Distributed Power Management – optimization of power consumption due to switching off idle hosts.Distributed Resource Scheduler – balancing the workload between hosts.In addition to Standard features, vSphere Enterprise edition offers the following options: APIs for Array Integration, Multipathing – API storage interfaces to integrate arrays and manage alternative paths.Multi-VC Content Library – centralized management of VM templates, vApp, IOS and scripts.APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) – vCenter and disk array integration.Storage-Policy Management (SPBM) – an automatic storage management.

Virtual Volumes ( VVOLs) – a virtualization of SAN and NAS storage devices.VM Data Replication – an optimized data replication using WAN.Storage vMotion – an online migration of virtual disk files between storage devices.vMotion, Cross-Switch vMotion – an online migration of VMs between servers or virtual switches.Fault Tolerance – provides continuous VM (app) availability in case of hardware failures.High Availability – reduces downtime due to automatic VM restart.VSphere Standard offers the following features: Let’s briefly describe the most interesting features available in different editions: I/O Controls (Network and Storage) and SR-IOV Virtual Volumes and Storage-Policy BasedManagementĭistributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and Distributed Power Management (DPM) High Availability (HA) and Fault Tolerance(FT)ĭata Protection (VDP) and VM Data Replication VMotion, Storage vMotion and Cross-Switch vMotion

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