VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus

Virtualization platform

Application Performance

• Distributed Resource Scheduler™ (DRS) - Redesigned with a more workload-centric approach, DRS balances resources allocated to workloads in a vSphere cluster, versus the previously used cluster-wide deviation model; this also results in improved cycle time.

• Storage DRS™ - Automated load balancing now looks at storage characteristics to determine the best place for a given virtual machine’s data when it is created and used over time.

• Distributed Power Management™ (DPM) - Optimizes power consumption by turning off hosts during periods of reduced demand.

• Storage Policy-Based Management - Allows common management across storage tiers and dynamic storage class-of-service automation via a policy-driven control plane.

Business Continuity

• vSphere ESX Hypervisor - Provides a robust, production-proven, high-performance virtualization layer.

• vSphere vMotion - Enables live migration of virtual machines with no disruption to users or loss of service, eliminating the need to schedule application downtime for planned server maintenance. The recent enhancements in vMotion logic provides non-disruptive operations, irrespective of the size of VMs, specifically for large and mission-critical workloads.

• vCenter Hybrid Linked Mode - Enables unified visibility and management across on-premises vCenter and vCenter on a vSphere-enabled cloud such as VMware Cloud on AWS.

• vSMP - Virtual symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) enables virtual machines to have multiple virtual CPUs.

• High Availability (HA) - Automatically restart your VMs following the physical machine failure.

• Storage vMotion - Avoid application downtime for planned storage maintenance by migrating live virtual machine disk files across storage arrays.

Hybrid Cloud Capabilities

• Cross vCenter Mixed Version Provisioning - Uses different vCenter versions across on-premises and vSphere-based public cloud environments, while allowing provisioning operations such as vMotion, Full Clone and Cold Migrate to continue seamlessly.

• Hot and Cold Migration to the Cloud - Supports hot and cold migration of workloads across the hybrid cloud.