vCenter Operations Editions - Feature Comparison
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| Target Environment | vSphere (up to 1500 VMs) | vSphere | Heterogeneous |
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Consolidated Health dashboard
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Actionable health scores & KPIs
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Top N priority views
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Self learning behavior
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Dynamic Thresholds
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Early warning visualizations
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Predictive 'Smart' Alerts
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Alert lifecycle mgmt
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Custom alerts
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Email & SNMP notifications
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| Analysis & Troubleshooting | |||
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1 click root-cause dashboard w/ KPI history
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Impact detection (Health trees)
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Behavioral performance/workload analysis
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Multiple KPI anomaly correlation
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Contextual event overlays
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HeatMap library
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| Cross Team views & enablement | |||
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Role based access & SSO
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Actionable operator views
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Problem isolation tools
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Report by Custom Groups
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| vSphere awareness | |||
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Multi vCenter support
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Integrated into vSphere Client
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vSphere Inventory & dependency aware
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Support for Reservations & Limits
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| Capacity Management | |||
| Capacity Awareness | |||
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Past, present, future capacity summaries
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Current capacity bottlenecks
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Future capacity shortfall notifications
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Alerts on capacity conditions
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Schedulable Capacity Reports
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Report across multiple vCenters
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| Capacity Optimization | |||
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Analyze & trend resource wastage
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Identify over-allocated, idle VMs
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Identify under-utilized hosts, clusters
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Identify waste from snapshots, templates, orphaned VMs
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Recommendations to reclaim resources
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Recommendations to rightsize
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| Capacity Planning & Forecasting | |||
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Estimate remaining capacity
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Estimate time remaining to full capacity
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Forecast demand & supply
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Trend Utilization vs demand
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Trend Utilization and allocation
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Replenishment recommendations
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Interactive What-if modeling
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Support for vSphere storage
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Support for Peak usage
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Support for Business time zones
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Role based access & SSO
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Actionable operator views
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Report by Custom Groups
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Infra. utilization trend views for Upper mgmt
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Supply forecast for provider teams: Storage, Network, Build
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Usage & Optimization views for LOB
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Cloud capacity reports for Provider & Tenants
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Report customization
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Integrated into vSphere Client
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vSphere Inventory & dependency aware
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Support for vCloud objects(vDCs)
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Support for Thin Provisioning
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Support for Reservations & Limits
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Support for Linked Clones
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Support for HA, FT
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| Configuration & Compliance Management | |||
| Configuration Visibility | |||
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Configuration and change visibility
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Centralized dashboards
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Out of box Reports
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Change alerts
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| Continuous Compliance | |||
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Guest Compliance
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Host Compliance
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vCenter Compliance
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Standard Regulatory compliance (SOX, HIPAA, DISA, ISO, BASEL II, PCI DSS, NIST)
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Custom policy compliance
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Automated compliance violation detection
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Compliance remediation recommendations
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Compliance remediation automation
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| Automated Provisioning and Patching | |||
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Manage OS distribution centrally
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Discover new systems, build/deploy via PXE
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Provision ESX/ESXi to "bare metal"
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Provision OS to bare metal & VMs
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Build and deploy software packages (Windows)
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Connect to compliance policies
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Automatically detect missing software
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Remediate non-compliant systems
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Distributed software repository
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| Cross Team Views & enablement | |||
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Role based access control
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Active Directory integration
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