- Efficiency through utilization and automation
- Memory compression
- DRS host affinity
- Storage I/O control
- Performance reporting
- Array integration
- Network I/O control
- Agility with control
- VMware vMotion
- VMware high availability
- Active Directory integration
VMware vSphere is a complete and robust virtualization platform for building cloud infrastructures. vSphere 5 enables higher consolidation ratios with unequaled performance by providing memory management technology, expanded resource pooling capabilities with more granular storage and network I/O controls, and major enhancements to overall scalability.
Set storage quality-of-service priorities for each virtual machine to guarantee access to storage resources. Set network quality-of-service priorities per flow type for guaranteed access to network resources.
Leverage modern protocol interfaces between VMware and storage arrays for faster performance for vSphere operations such as storage vMotion events and virtual machine provisioning. Speed and scale enhancements to vMotion deliver superior platform response and availability by migrating virtual machines faster and enabling more vMotion events in parallel.
vSphere 5 extends its availability and security capabilities with fast live migrations and the ability to respond in parallel to any business need or change. Application services enhancements deliver status details for high availability and tighter integration with an existing directory service.
Deeper diagnostic and health check capabilities further enhances application availability in virtual machines. Seamless user authentication at the vSphere host provides centralized user management. Easily assign privileges to users or groups plus roll out permission rules across hosts.
VMware vSphere Essentials provides an all-in-one solution for small offices to consolidate and manage many application workloads while reducing hardware and operating costs with a low up-front investment.