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vSphere 5.1 Kits combine a number of vSphere licenses with vCenter Server for central management—everything you need to start your virtualization journey. vSphere Essentials Kits are great for small businesses, while vSphere with Operations Management Acceleration Kits offer midsize businesses more advanced features to help scale and simplify management operations. This includes providing health and operational insights into the virtual environment, as well as optimizing capacity utilization.

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vSphere Essentials and Acceleration Kits Comparison

	Essentials Kit	Essentials Plus Kit	Standard	Enterprise	Enterprise Plus
Overview	Server consolidation and centralized management	Server consolidation and business continuity	Scalable server consolidation & no planned downtime with proactive operations management	Powerful & efficient resource management with proactive operations management	Policy-based datacenter automation with proactive operations management
Product Components
Centralized Management vCenter Standard: Provides large scale management of VMware vSphere deployments for rapid provisioning, monitoring, orchestration, and control of virtual machines. vCenter Foundation: Provides powerful management tools for smaller environments (up to 3 vSphere hosts) looking to rapidly provision, monitor, and control virtual machines. vCenter for Essentials: Provides the same features as vCenter Foundation, integrated with the Essentials and Essentials Plus kits.	vCenter Server Essentials	vCenter Server Essentials	vCenter Server Standard	vCenter Server Standard	vCenter Server Standard
Shared Storage Transforms internal storage from several server hosts into a protected shared storage resource.		vSphere Storage Appliance for Essentials Plus
Advanced Data Protection Provides scalable and advanced backup and recovery for midsize vSphere environments. Based on EMC Avamar technology, it features variable-length deduplication to enable agentless image-level backups and application-aware protection of Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server.				vSphere Data Protection Advanced	vSphere Data Protection Advanced
Included Entitlement	3 servers with up to 2 processors each	3 servers with up to 2 processors each	6 Processors - scalable with additional licenses	6 Processors - scalable with additional licenses	6 Processors - scalable with additional licenses
vRAM Entitlement Amount of vRAM that each license adds to the available pool. vRAM is the amount of virtual memory configured to a virtual machine. See vSphere 5.1 Pricing and Packaging White Paper for more information about vRAM.	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
vCPU Entitlement The number of virtual CPUs that may be allocated to each VM when using virtual symmetric multiprocessing (vSMP)	8-way	8-way	8-way	32-way	64-way
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware Qualified purchases of VMware vSphere entitle to free use of enterprise Linux (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware) as guest OS. This offer includes free subscription to patches & updates of the OS and ability to run unlimited number of virtual machines per vSphere license.
Product Features
vSphere Hypervisor Provides a robust, production-proven, high performance virtualization layer that abstract server hardware resources and allow their sharing by multiple virtual machines.
vCenter Operations Manager Foundation Provides views into health, risk and efficiency scores of your vSphere environment.
High Availability Minimize downtime with automated restart of your VMs following physical machine failure.
vMotion Eliminate application downtime from planned server maintenance by migrating running VMs between hosts.
Data Protection Provides simple, cost effective backup and recovery for virtual machines. It is a newly architected solution based on EMC Avamar technology that enables agentless backups with built-in deduplication.
vShield Endpoint Secures virtual machines with offloaded anti-virus and anti-malware (AV) solutions without the need of agents inside the virtual machine.
vSphere Replication Enables efficient array-agnostic replication of virtual machine data over the LAN or WAN. vSphere Replication simplifies management enabling replication at the virtual machine level and enables RPOs as low as 15 minutes.
Health Monitoring and Performance Analytics Help anticipate performance bottlenecks and enable vSphere infrastructure health with patented self-learning analytics.
Capacity Management and Optimization Ensures capacity consumption is right-sized and not overprovisioned to allow for the most efficient use of virtualized resources.
Operations Dashboard and Root Cause Analysis Provides intuitive operations dashboards and actionable recommendations.
Storage vMotion Avoid application downtime for planned storage maintenance by migrating live VM disk files across storage arrays.
Fault Tolerance Provide continuous availability for applications with zero data loss in the event of server failures.
Hot Add Increase capacity by adding CPU, memory, or devices to virtual machines when needed without disruption or downtime.
Virtual Serial Port Concentrator Connect over the network via the serial port concentrator to the serial port console on any server.
Storage APIs for Array Integration, Multipathing Improve performance, reliability, and scalability by leveraging efficient array-based operations along with third party storage vendor multi-path software capabilities.
Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS), Distributed Power Management (DPM) Align resources usage with business priority by automatically load balancing across hosts and optimize power consumption by turning off hosts during lower load periods.
Storage I/O Control, and Network I/O Control Storage I/O Control - Prioritizes storage access by continuously monitoring I/O load of a storage volume and dynamically allocating available I/O resources to virtual machines according to business needs. Network I/O Control - Prioritize network access by continuously monitoring I/O load over the network and dynamically allocating available I/O resources according to specific business needs.
Distributed Switch Centralize provisioning, administration, and monitoring using cluster-level network aggregation.
Host Profiles, and Auto Deploy Host Profiles - Capture host level configuration settings and save them as a template to configure other vSphere hosts. Monitor hosts for configuration changes and automatically alert vSphere administrators if a host falls out of compliance. Auto Deploy - Simplify host deployment and compliance by creating VMs from configuration templates.
Storage DRS, and Profile-Driven Storage Storage DRS – Automated load balancing now looks at storage characteristics to determine the best place for a given virtual machine’s data when it is created and then used over time. Profile-Driven Storage – Reduce the steps in the selection of storage resources by grouping storage according to a user-defined policy.
Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) Support Allows one PCI express (PCIe) adapter to be presented as multiple separate logical devices to the VMs. Provides users with the ability to offload IO processing and reduce network latency.
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