VMware vSphere

Key features and capabilities

Simplified Operations

• vSphere+ Cloud Console: Enables IT administrators to consolidate managementof all vSphere deployments through a centralized cloud console.
• vSphere+ Admin Services: Monitor global inventory, available capacity, events, alerts, configuration drift, and security posture from one place. Simplify lifecycle management of vCenter instances. Quickly provision VMs.
• Lifecycle Management: Manage infrastructure images to patch, update, or upgrade clusters using a desired state model.
• Green Metrics: Get power consumed by workloads, infrastructure services, and idling time, at the host or VM level. Discover ways to optimize power usage. Intrinsic Security
• Virtual Machine Encryption: Data-at-rest encryption for virtual machine data and disks.
• vSphere Trust Authority: Remote attestation for sensitive workloads.
• TPM 2.0 Support and Virtual TPM: Supports TPM 2.0 hardware modules and adds virtual TPM devices to shield guest OS from Operator or in-guest attacks. High Performance
• VMware vSphere® Distributed Services Engine™: Accelerate infrastructure network functions on the Data Processing Unit (DPU). Reduce operational burden of managing DPUs with integrated vSphere workflows. Use proven vCenter interfaces to get DPU alerts and performance metrics. Utilize available CPU cycles achieve higher workload consolidation per host.
• Distributed Resource Scheduler™ (DRS): Automatic load balancing of resources allocated to workloads in a vSphere cluster. Storage DRS optimizes VM data placement as it is created and used over time.
• vSphere Persistent Memory™: Leverages persistent memory to get DRAM-like performance with flash-like prices.
• Dynamic DirectPath IO: Support for vGPU and DirectPath I/O initial VM placement. Business Continuity
• High Availability: Automatically restarts your VMs following physical machine failure.
• Fault Tolerance: Provides continuous availability of any application in the event of a hardware failure with no data loss or downtime.
• vMotion: Enables live migration of virtual machines with no disruption to users or loss of service, eliminating the need to schedule application downtime for planned server maintenance. Storage vMotion avoids downtime for planned storage maintenance.
• vSphere Replication™: Efficient, array-agnostic replication of VM data over the LAN or WAN, and enables replication at the VM level. Application Development
• Integration with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid™: Run the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) service directly on vSphere to simplify operation of Kubernetes on-premises. TKG allows IT admins or DevOps engineers to manage conformant Kubernetes, while providing developers self-service access to infrastructure.
• Tanzu Mission Control™ Essentials: With vSphere+, TMC provides global visibility across your entire Kubernetes footprint, and automates operational tasks such as lifecycle management, access, security management, and more.
• Cloud Consumption Interface: With vSphere+, CCI provides easy and convenient access to IaaS for DevOps and development teams. Manage self-service access via GUI, API, or CLI, to IaaS across vSphere cloud infrastructure.