vSphere Editions and Features Flashcards
Standard Edition
- HA and FT (Fault Tolerance) for 2vCPUS
- Data protection (VDP) / replication (Vsphere Replication) DR
- WOLs/SPBM (Storage Policy Based Management) (Virtual Volumes) (Virtual aware storage) (Manage Storage based on virtual machine)
- Content library
HA
High availability for tier 1 servers
FT
Fault tolerance for for failed physical cpus. vCPU will time out for a moment.
Data Protection or VDP
Backup and recovery application
Vsphere Replication
Software base replication. Used primarily for DR
vVols
Virtual Volumes. Must be supported by storage array. Virtual aware storage. Manage storage based on VM instead of LUN.
SPBM
Storage policy based management. Define policies for a VM. Configure underlying storage with capabilities or Vsphere can talk to the storage with the vsphere API. VASA.
Content Library
A shared area for the vcenter server for ISO images and vapps.
Enterprise Addition
All of Vsphere standard and:
VAAI
DRS/DPM
BDE
VAAI
Vmware API Array Integration. Provides the offload of storage operations to your storage where it belongs. Cloning a VM could be offloaded to the storage. Could be instantaneous for large VMs.
DRS
Distributed Resource Scheduler. Load balancing.
DPM
Distributed power management. Related to DRS. Allows the Datacenter to save on electricity costs. Shuts down ESXI servers when demand is low.
BDE
Big Data Extensions. Companies struggling with big data.
Enterprise Plus edition
All of vSphere Enterprise and:
-FT for 4 vCPUS per protected VM
BDE, vDS, SDRS, NIOC, and SR-IOV
- Host profiles / auto deploy
- Flash read cache
- Cross vCenter and long distance vMotion vGPU.
vDS
vsphere distributed switch
SDRS
Storage distributed resource scheduler. For storage. Ensures your VM receive the storage performance and capacity they require
NIOC
Network IO Control
Host Profiles / Auto deploy
Bring up brand new esxi servers quickly and with the exact same config every time. Allows you to routinely audit esxi servers.
Flash read cache
FRC. requires ssd on each esxi server where you have VMs you want to enable flash read cache. Can speed up storage IO throughput for read IO.
Cross vCenter
Ability to migrate VM’s across vcenters.
Long Distance vMotion
Allos for Vmotions to any vcenter in the environment.