What's New in vSphere 5?
There has been a lot of talk about the changes to vSphere 5, but one thing remains the same: VMware is the industry leading virtualization platform.
vSphere 5 builds on the ESXi platform with additional management, monitoring, and performance tools to enable businesses to have even more confidence running their mission critical applications. With vSphere 5 there are many new features as well as a few changes in the licensing program.
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VMware Essentials Overview:
VMware Essentials and Essentials Plus Kits are a prepackaged way to receive all of the licensing needed for you to start your server consolidation project. VMware Essentials and Essentials Plus support up to 3 physical servers running an unlimited number of virtual servers, while being monitored and managed by vCenter Foundation. VMware Essentials and Essentials plus are a great way to begin reducing maintenance, hardware, and operating costs. A full overview of how these features will help you decrease costs, while increasing manageability and efficiencies can be provided by your Great Lakes Computer Account Manager.
vSphere Storage Appliance
Before vSphere Storage Appliance, implementing virtualization required specialized knowledge in shared storage hardware. With VSA, installation involves just a few mouse clicks to utilize the local storage on your servers to provide shared storage functionality. And because VSA is integrated with vCenter Server, you can manage your entire IT environment in one place.
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vCenter FoundationVMware vCenter Server provides central management of VMware vSphere hosts and central management of VMware vSphere licenses as a native feature. vCenter Foundation can manage up to 3 hosts.
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Thin ProvisioningReduce storage needs by utilizing dynamic storage that expands to meet the requirements of the virtual machine with no performance degradation.
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vCenter Update ManagerAutomates the tracking, patching and updating of vSphere server hosts, as well as the VM's applications and operating systems.
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vStorage APIs for Data ProtectionAchieve scalable backup without disrupting applications or users by leveraging supported 3rd party backup software that leverages these APIs. Through this integration supported 3rd party backup software can perform centralized VM backups without the disruption and overhead of running backup tasks from inside each virtual machine.
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Data RecoveryProtect your data through fast agent-less backups to disk, with de-duplication to minimize use of backup disk space.
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High AvailabilityMinimize downtime with automated restart of your VMs following physical machine failure.
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vMotionEliminate application downtime from planned server maintenance by migrating running VMs between hosts.
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vSphere Storage applianceVSA is revolutionary software that turns servers into shared storage. This means high availability, vMotion, and automation all without shared storage hardware.
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