What is VMware vSphere?
Unleash a powerful, flexible, and secure foundation for business agility that accelerates your digital transformation to hybrid cloud. vSphere is the industry-leading server virtualization software and the heart of a modern SDDC, helping you run, manage, connect, and secure your applications in a common operating environment across clouds.
New advanced security capabilities, fully integrated into the hypervisor and powered by machine learning, provide better visibility, protection, and response times for security incidences. With vSphere, you can support new workloads and use cases while keeping pace with the growing needs and complexity of your infrastructure.
vSphere Platinum Security
vSphere Platinum Security
Secure applications, infrastructure, data, and access with a comprehensive, built-in architecture and a simple, policy-driven model.
Announcing VMware vSphere Platinum
SPOTLIGHT
Secure Applications and Infrastructure with vSphere Platinum
Secure Applications and Infrastructure with vSphere Platinum
Learn how vSphere Platinum delivers built-in security powered by machine learning.
Comprehensive Data Center Security
Holistic Security for your Datacenter with VMware SDDC
Learn MoreeBook: Upgrading to vSphere 6.7
Read tips and tricks for planning and executing a successful upgrade.
Download the GuideVMware vSphere Platinum – Heart of a Secure SDDC
Discover how vSphere Platinum delivers comprehensive security for your datacenter.
Read More10 Reasons to Upgrade
Discover 6x faster app performance and more with vSphere 6.7.
View InfographicUSE CASES
Data Center Consolidation and Business Continuity
Simplify data center operations and management at scale, increase business efficiency, and decrease CapEx and OpEx through virtualization.
Enhanced App Performance and Hybrid Cloud
Take advantage of the latest innovations in hardware to turbocharge the performance of existing applications. Support new workloads and use cases, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. Balance workloads and prioritize resources to ensure top performance for your critical applications. Extend on-premises environments to vSphere-based public clouds, such as VMware Cloud on AWS, and enjoy a streamlined hybrid cloud experience.
Virtualized Big Data
Simplify your big data infrastructure management while making it more cost effective. VMware is the best platform for big data just as it is for traditional applications. Minimize downtime with uniform, cost-effective failover protection; easily organize, prioritize, and share data center resources; and provision virtual networking across multiple hosts and clusters from a centralized interface.
Legacy Unix to Virtual Linux Migration
Get high performance, enhanced availability, larger VM capacity, and disaster recovery capabilities when you migrate legacy Unix infrastructure to virtualized Linux. Move an entire running virtual machine from one physical server to another, without downtime, and gain rich troubleshooting capabilities, including rollback and recovery for patching and updating.
Application and Infrastructure Security
Secure applications, infrastructure, data, and access with a comprehensive, built-in architecture and a simple, policy-driven model. Protect apps running on vSphere using machine learning and behavioral analytics to monitor threats and automate responses. Get faster visibility and protection with a scalable solution, no agents to manage, and minimal overhead.
Containerized Modern Apps
Bridge the gap between IT and developers with vSphere Integrated Containers. Leveraging the core capabilities of vSphere, your IT teams can run both traditional and containerized applications side by side on the same infrastructure, without the need for additional tooling or training.
Support for Remote Offices and Branch Offices
Manage your remote and branch offices with little or no local IT staff. Enable rapid provisioning of servers through virtualization, minimization of host configuration drift, and enhanced visibility into regulatory compliance across multiple sites.
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vSphere Standard
vSphere Enterprise Plus
vSphere Platinum
*Available with Log Insight for vCenter Server versions up to 4.6, until the End of General Support of vRealize Log Insight 4.6 on August 23, 2019
*End of Availability of vSphere with Operations Management Enterprise Plus is February 1, 2019
WHY UPGRADE?
vSphere 6.7 is the efficient and secure platform for your hybrid cloud. With vSphere 6.7, you can now run, manage, connect, and secure your applications in a common operating environment, across the hybrid cloud.
vSphere 6.7 supports both existing and next-gen workloads through these new capabilities:
- Simple and efficient management at scale.
- Comprehensive built-in security that starts at the core, via an operationally simple policy-driven model.
- Universal application platform supporting new workloads and leveraging hardware innovations for enhanced performance.
- A seamless hybrid cloud experience with easy visibility, migration, and management of workloads between on-premises and public cloud.
Next Steps:
- Visit the vSphere Upgrade Center and learn more about upgrading to vSphere 6.7.
- End of General Support (EOGS) for vSphere 5.5 is September 19, 2018. Learn more.
RESOURCES
Learn and Evaluate
- vSphere Feature Comparison
- vSphere 6.7 Datasheet
- vSphere Platinum Solution Brief
- IT Security White Paper - The Core Principles of Cyber Hygiene
- Infographic: Power Your Hybrid Cloud with vSphere 6.7
- What's New: vSphere 6.5
- Introducing vSphere 6.7
- VMware TCO comparison calculator
- What's New in vSphere 6.7 White Paper
- Now's the Time to Upgrade to VMware vSphere 6.7
- VMware vSphere 6.7: Advanced Troubleshooting Workshop
- VMware vSphere 6.7: Practitioner Workshop
- VMware Advanced Skills for vSphere 6.7 Professional Workshop