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What are the bene ts of VMware vSphere 4?
VMware vSphere:
Dramatically reduces capital expenses per application by 50% and operating expenses per application by over 60%•
Increases control over delivery of IT services with built-in, automated availability, security and scalability•
Preserves the exibility to choose between any type of OS, application and hardware, hosted in-house or using external resources•
What’s new with VMware vSphere 4?
VMware vSphere 4 builds on VMware Infrastructure 3 and adds in a number of powerful new capabilities•
VMware vSphere 4 can be purchased starting May 21 in new editions at di erent prices•
Key New Features
Product/Feature What is it? What are the bene ts?
VMware® Fault Tolerance • Provides zero-downtime and zero-data-loss continuous
availability in the case of hardware failures
• Eliminates even the smallest of disruptions in the
event of hardware failures
• Simple to set up
• Can be used with any application
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VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch • Provides a central datacenter level aggregated control point
for virtual machine networking
• Enables the use of third party virtual switches such as Cisco
Nexus 1000v in vSphere environments
• Simplifi ed provisioning and administration of
virtual machine networking
• Enhanced security and monitoring for virtual
machines migrated via VMware VMotion
through maintenance and migration of port
runtime state
VMware Host Pro les • Allows creation of “golden” profi les of ESX hosts and their
application to existing or new hosts
• Simplifi es the provisioning and confi guration
management of ESX hosts
VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning • Defers the allocation of storage to virtual machines until
it is needed
• Uses monitoring and alerting capabilities to trigger proactive
procurement of storage
• Reduces storage costs by over 50% in virtual
environments
VMware Hot Add • Allows CPU and memory to be added to running virtual
machines without disruption or downtime
• Allows virtual HBAs and NICs to be added to or removed from
virtual machines without disruption or downtime
• Allows applications to be given additional
resources without disruption or downtime
VMware Data Recovery • Provides backup to disk and simple recovery at a fi le or image
level for small environments
• Provides a simple, cost-eff ective data protection
solution for small environments
VMware® vShield Zones • Enforces corporate fi rewall security policies at the application
level in a shared environment, while still maintaining trust and
network segmentation of users and sensitive data
• Simplifi es application security
• Allows more effi cient use of fi rewalls in cluster
environments comprising di erent types of
applications
VMware vSMP (8-way) • Allows a single virtual machine to use up to 8 virtual CPUs
at a time (this was previously 4 vCPUs in VI3)
• Allows for the most compute intensive
applications to be run as virtual machines
Performance and Scalability • 255GB of RAM in virtual machines (previously 64GB)
• 64 cores and 512GB of physical RAM supported by ESX hosts
• Over 8,900 database transacion transactions per second
per virtual machine – suffi cient to run annually the entire
transaction traffi c of VISA
• 3x increases in network transmit throughput increase over
VI 3.5
• Increased MS SQL Server throughput effi ciency by 20%
• Increased Citrix XenApp throughput by 30%
• Increased iSCSI throughput by up to 10x
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• Allows the most intense and critical applications
to benefi t from all the advantages of
virtualization without a noticeable impact to
users
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In vSphere 4.0, VMware Fault Tolerance works with 1-vCPU virtual machines only
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vSphere supports 10GigE with iSCSI (VI3 does not support 10 GigE with iSCSI)