What is VMware Vsphere Enterprise?
VMware Vsphere Enterprise is specifically for businesses that want to virtualise their entire data centres. VMware Vsphere Enterprise and Enterprise Plus options include the full range of Vsphere features that simplifies cloud computing and delivers flexible, yet reliable IT services.
How does VMware Vsphere Enterprise work?
VMware Vsphere Advanced helps to consolidate and optimise existing hardware, enabling you to delay costly datacentre expansion projects by consolidation up to fifteen machines onto a single physical server without affecting performance. Vsphere Advanced helps to improve business continuity and disaster recovery with always on IT options and protection again data loss. Vsphere advanced helps to streamline your IT operations and dramatically simplifies the management of largely dispersed IT environments.
Features | Benefits |
Efficient | Consolidation rates of 15:1 can be achieved without affecting performance |
Lower Costs | Reduces capital expenditure by up to 70% and operational expenditure by up 30% which achieves 20-30% lower costs for each application running on Vsphere |
Quick Response | Enables you to respond quickly to the changing needs of your business without sacrificing any security or control of your IT infrastructure. |
Freedom of Choice | Allowing you to enhance Vsphere through open APIs with solutions from a global ecosystem of leading technology suppliers. |
Components VMware Vsphere Enterprise Advanced
Infrastructure Services | Application Services | Management Services |
VMware ESXi™ and ESX® hypervisor architectures | VMware vMotion™ | VMware vCenter Agent |
VMware Virtual SMP | VMware Storage vMotion | Host profiles help IT administrators simplify host deployment |
VMware vStorage Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) | VMware High Availability (HA) | Virtual Serial Port Concentrator |
VMware vStorage APIs | VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) provides continuous availability | VMware vCenter Update Manager automates tracking, patching |
VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) | VMware Data Recovery | VMware vCenter Converter |
VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM) | VMware vShield Zones simplifies application security | |
VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch | VMware VMsafe™ APIs enable the use of security products | |
VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning | VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) | |
VMware Storage I/O Control sets storage quality-of-service | Hot add enables CPU and memory to be added | |
Network I/O Control sets network quality-of-service priorities | Hot plug virtual storage and network devices | |
| Hot extend of virtual disks | |
View more information on the VMware Vsphere Enterprise Factsheet .
For more information about VMware Vsphere Enterprise edition please contact one of our VMware Specialists on 0121 262 6240