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Updates to Existing Products/Features
Product/Feature What is it? What are the bene ts?
VMware® Distributed Resource
Scheduler (DRS)/VMware® Distributed
Power Management (DPM)
• DRS continuously monitors virtual machines and physical
servers to optimally align compute capacity to application
requirements based on business priorities
• DPM optimizes DRS clusters for the lowest possible power
consumption
• Automated matching of application demand to
computing resources
• Simplifi ed operational management and higher
levels of utilization in virtual environments
• Up to an additional 20% reduction in power
costs with DPM
VMware® Storage
VMotion
• Live migration of virtual disks from one storage location to
another without disruption to users
• New, simple administrator interface
• Minimizes the need to schedule application
downtime due to storage maintenance
VMware® VMotion™ • Live migration of virtual machines from one server to another
without disruption to users
• Minimizes the need to schedule application
downtime due to server maintenance
VMware® High Availability (HA) • Continuous monitoring of servers in a pool and automated
restart of virtual machines on alternate servers in the event of
hardware failures
• Automated restart of virtual machines in the event of OS failures
• Simple, cost-eff ective protection against
hardware and OS failures
• Pervasive protection for all applications, allowing
protection of applications with no other failover
options
VMware Update Manager • Automates patching for ESX hosts and select Microsoft and
Linux virtual machines
• Eliminates manual tracking of patch levels of ESX
Server hosts and virtual machines
• Automates enforcement of patch standards
• Reduces risk through snapshots and offl ine
virtual machine patching
VMware® ESX™/ESXi • Proven, high performance bare metal hypervisor
• Unique CPU and memory optimization features that enable
the highest consolidation rations
• Optimized for the highest network and storage throughput
• Delivers high consolidation ratios leading to the
highest capital expenditure savings
• Easily runs the most intense applications at very
high throughput rates
Features Included VMware vSphere
Standard Edition
VMware vSphere
Advanced Edition
VMware vSphere
Enterprise Edition
(Available until 12/15/09 only)
VMware vSphere
Enterprise Plus Edition
VMware Host Pro les
VMware vNetwork Distributed
Switch/Third-Party Switch
Enablement
VMware DRS/DPM
VMware Storage VMotion
VMware Fault Tolerance
VMware Data Recovery
VMware vShield Zones
VMware Hot Add
VMware VMotion
VMware Thin Provisioning
VMware vSMP
4-way SMP 4-way vSMP 4-way vSMP 8-way vSMP
VMware HA
VMware® vCenter™ Update
Manager
Features Included
VMware vSphere
Standard Edition
VMware vSphere
Advanced Edition
VMware vSphere
Enterprise Edition
VMware vSphere
Enterprise Plus Edition
New vSphere Editions