Presentation present to System group Introducing vSphere

2. • VMware ESX 3.5 VMware ESX 4.0
• VMware ESXi3.5 VMware ESXi4.0
• vCenterServer 2.5 vCenterServer 4.0

5. • Licensing
• Fault Tolerance
• vNetwork Distributed Switch
• Host Profiles
• Hot Add
• Data Recovery
• vShield Zones
• Distributed Power Management (DPM)

6. • Per CPU (not per 2)
• No more License Files – Serial-Keys Only
• No FLEX
• No Single Point of Failure

7. • Continuous Availability for any Virtual
Machine
• Low Performance hit on the VM
• Additional Resources per VM
• Does not support all CPU’s

8. • Simplified provisioning and administration of virtual
networking across many hosts and clusters through
a centralized interface.
• Simplified end-to-end physical and virtual network
management through third-party virtual switch
extensions for the Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual switch.
• Enhanced provisioning and traffic management
capabilities through private VLAN support and bi-
directional virtual machine rate-limiting.
• Enhanced security and monitoring for virtual
machines migrated via VMware VMotion through
maintenance and migration of port runtime state.

9. • Simplified provisioning and administration of
ESX Servers.
• Compliance to Defined Policy
• Add of Memory and CPU on the fly (if
supported by the OS)

10. • Disk-based backup and recovery to enable
speedy restoration of your VMs
• Easy to deploy, since VMware Data
Recovery is a virtual machine that runs on
VMware ESX and ESXi hosts
• Restore individual files or entire images as
needed

11. • Central Management of Logical Zone
Boundaries and Segmentation
• Network Enforcement and Flow Monitoring
• Management and Reporting