vSphere Enterprise Plus is the best platform for creating a cloud infrastructure which contains all vSphere family functions. Thanks to VMware vSphere, data centres are simplified to cloud computing, providing IT services at a completely new level of functionality and security.
VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus includes:
- VMware Hypervisor or VMware ESX hypervisor architectures (optional while implementing),
- VMFS (Virtual Machine File System),
- 8-way Virtual SMP,
- VMware vCenter Server Agent,
- VMware vStorage APIs/ VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB),
- VMware Update Manager,
- VMware High Availability (HA),
- VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning,
- VMware vMotion,
- VMware Hot Add,
- VMware Fault Tolerance,
- VMware Data Recovery,
- VMware vShield Zones,
- VMware Storage vMotion,
- VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS),
- VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM),
- VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch,
- VMware Host Profiles,
- VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection / VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB),
- VMware vStorage APIs for Multipathing,
- VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration,
- VMware Storage I/O Control,
- VMware Network I/O Control,
- VMware DirectPath I/O.