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| VMware Fault Tolerance |
Provides zero-downtime and zero-data-loss continuous availability in the case of hardware failures |
Eliminates even the smallest of disruptions in the event of hardware failures |
| Simple to set up |
| Can be used with any application* |
| VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch |
Provides a central datacenter level aggregated control point for virtual machine networking |
Simplified provisioning and administration of virtual machine networking |
| Enables the use of third party virtual switches such as Cisco Nexus 1000v in vSphere environments |
Enhanced security and monitoring for virtual machines migrated via VMware VMotion through maintenance and migration of port runtime state. |
| VMware Host Profiles |
Allows creation of “golden” profiles of ESX hosts and their application to existing or new hosts |
Simplifies the provisioning and configuration management of ESX hosts |
| VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning |
Defers the allocation of storage to virtual machines to when it is needed |
Reduces storage costs by over 50% in virtual environments |
| Uses monitoring and alerting capabilities to provide the visibility and reporting needed to enable effective management of storage capacity for virtual machines |
| VMware Hot Add |
Allows CPU and memory to be added to running virtual machines without disruption or downtime |
Allows applications to be given additional resources without disruption or downtime |
| Allows virtual HBAs and NICs to be added to or removed from virtual machines without disruption or downtime |
| VMware Data Recovery |
Provides backup to disk and simple recovery at a file or image level for small environments |
Provides a simple, cost effective data protection solution for small environments |
| VMware vShield Zones |
Enforces corporate firewall security policies at the application level in a shared environment, while still maintaining trust and network segmentation of users and sensitive data. |
Simplifies application security |
| Allows more efficient use of firewalls in cluster environments comprising different types of applications |
| VMware vSMP (8-way) |
Allows a single virtual machine to use upto 8 virtual CPUs at a time (this was previously 4 vCPUs in VI3) |
Allows for the most compute intensive applications to be run as virtual machines |
| Performance and Scalability |
255 GB of RAM in virtual machines (previously 64GB) |
Allows the most intense and critical applications to benefit from all the advantages of virtualization without a noticeable impact to users |
| 64 cores and 512 GB of physical RAM supported by ESX hosts |
| Over 8000 DB transactions per second per virtual machine and over 20000 iops per ESX host |
| Upto 86% in network throughput increase over VI 3.5 in consolidated environments |
| Increased MS SQL Server throughput efficiency by 20% |
Increased Citrix XenApp throughput by 30%
Increased iSCSI throughput by upto ten times |