VMware vSphere

Naming Convention

• VMware ESX 3.5 VMware ESX 4.0• VMware ESXi3.5 VMware ESXi4.0• vCenterServer 2.5 vCenterServer 4.0

vSphere Editions...

Pricing

New Features

• Licensing • Fault Tolerance• vNetwork Distributed Switch• Host Profiles• Hot Add• Data Recovery• vShield Zones• Distributed Power Management (DPM)

Licensing

• Per CPU (not per 2)• No more License Files – Serial-Keys Only• No FLEX• No Single Point of Failure

Fault Tolerance

• Continuous Availability for any Virtual Machine

• Low Performance hit on the VM• Additional Resources per VM• Does not support all CPU’s

Distributed vSwitch

• Simplified provisioning and administration of virtual networking across many hosts and clusters through a centralized interface.

• Simplified end-to-end physical and virtual network management through third-party virtual switch extensions for the Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual switch.

• Enhanced provisioning and traffic management capabilities through private VLAN support and bi-directional virtual machine rate-limiting.

• Enhanced security and monitoring for virtual machines migrated via VMware VMotion through maintenance and migration of port runtime state.

Host Profiles & Hot Add

• Simplified provisioning and administration of ESX Servers.

• Compliance to Defined Policy

• Add of Memory and CPU on the fly (if supported by the OS)

Data Recovery

• Disk-based backup and recovery to enable speedy restoration of your VMs

• Easy to deploy, since VMware Data Recovery is a virtual machine that runs on VMware ESX and ESXi hosts

• Restore individual files or entire images as needed

vShield Zones

• Central Management of Logical Zone Boundaries and Segmentation

• Network Enforcement and Flow Monitoring• Management and Reporting