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IBM Latin America Software Announcement LP11-0446 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation

Planned availability date

September 30, 2011

Description

VMware vSphere 5.0 continues to deliver improved levels of performance and

scalability with:

• Support for up to 32 virtual CPUs

• Support for up to 2 TB of physical memory per server

• Support for up to 1 TB of RAM per virtual machine

• Support for up to 512 virtual machines per server

vSphere 5.0 retains all but one edition from vSphere 4.1: the vSphere Advanced

edition has merged into the vSphere Enterprise edition. These offerings help meet

the needs of Small and Medium Business (SMB), Mid-Market (MM), and Large

Enterprise clients.

• vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus editions (bundles) for SMB and MM

businesses and large distributed enterprises (such as branch offices).

• vSphere Standard edition at a lower price point for simple consolidation with

license entitlement of 32 GB of vRAM.

• vSphere Enterprise for large-scale implementations needing consolidation,

availability, and manageability with license entitlement of 64 GB of vRAM.

• vSphere Enterprise Plus provides tools to help with consolidation, availability,

and manageability. Enterprise Plus also includes Distributed Switch and Host

Profiles. New features include Auto Deploy, Policy-Driven Storage, and Storage

DRS. License entitlement is 96 GB of vRAM.

Note: The amount of vRAM counted in any given VM is capped, so that no single

VM up to a 1 TB vRAM VM would require more than one vSphere Enterprise

Plus license. The available pool of vRAM is calculated as a 12-month average of

consumed vRAM and monitored by vCenter Server.

vSphere 5.0 will have updated part numbers and naming from vSphere 4.1.

vSphere 5.0 includes detailed new feature content:

• vSphere ESXi Convergence - single hypervisor

• vSphere Auto Deploy

• vSphere Storage DRS, Profile Driven Storage, vSphere File System, vSphere

Storage I/O Control, and vSphere Storage API Program

• vSphere Network I/O Control and vSphere Distributed Switch

• vSphere High Availability architectural enhancement

• ESXi Firewall

• vSphere Web Client

• VMware vCenter Server Appliance

The following are new stand-alone offerings with this release:

• vCloud Director 1.5

• vShield 5 family of security features

• vCenter Chargeback and Capacity IQ

The following offerings remain the same: