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Friday, 01 May 2009 09:23

The different versions of vSphere are Standard, Advanced, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus. If you are an existing VI3 customer covered by SnS and licensed for VI3 Enterprise you will be transitioned to vSphere Enterprise Edition.

If you then want to take advantage of the distributed network switch, use a third party distributed switch or host profiles you will have to upgrade to Enterprise Plus.

The different versions have different featuresets and limits. The table below identifies which feature is included in what edition.

Featureset 

vSphere
Standard 

 vSphere
Advanced 		 vSphere
Enterprise 		 vSphere
Enterprise Plus 
 Host Profiles  NO   NO  NO  YES 
 vNetwork Distributed Switch  NO   NO  NO  YES
 DRS/DPM  NO   NO  YES  YES
 Storage vMotion  NO   NO  YES  YES 
 Fault Tolerance  NO   YES  YES  YES
 Data Recovery  NO   YES  YES  YES
 vShield Zones  NO   YES  YES  YES
 Hot Add  NO   YES  YES  YES
 vMotion  NO   YES  YES  YES
 Thin Provisioning  NO   YES  YES  YES
 vSMP  4-way
SMP 		  4-way
SMP 		  4-way
SMP 		  8-way
SMP 
 HA  YES   YES  YES  YES
 vCenter Update Manager  YES   YES  YES  YES
 vStorage API's  YES   YES  YES  YES
 vCenter Server Agent  YES   YES  YES   YES
 ESX/ESXi  YES  YES   YES   YES 
 Core limit per CPU  6 Cores
Per CPU 		  12 Cores
Per CPU 		  6 Cores
Per CPU 

 12 Cores
Per CPU
 Memory Limit per Host  256GB   256GB   256GB   No Limit 

 
Last Updated on Thursday, 16 July 2009 09:43
 
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