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Product offerings for vSphere 5.x (2001113)
Purpose
This article provides a list of features associated with the various licensing editions in vSphere 5.x.
Resolution
This table lists the features associated with the various licensing editions in vSphere 5.0 and 5.1:
Essentials
Essentials Plus
Standard
Enterprise
Enterprise Plus
5.0
5.1
5.0
5.1
5.0
5.1
5.0
5.1
5.0
5.1
Maximum virtual SMP
8-way
8-way
8-way
8-way
8-way
8-way
8-way
32-way
32-way
64-way
Thin Provisioning
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Update Manager
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vStorage APIs for Data Protection
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vCenter agent for VMware host
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Storage APIs
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VMsafe
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vSphere API
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vCenter Operations Manager Foundation
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vSphere High Availability
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vSphere Data Protection
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vSphere vMotion
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vSphere Storage vMotion
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware
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Shared Smart Card Reader
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vShield Zones
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Hot Add / Hot-Pluggable virtual HW
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vShield Endpoint
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vSphere Replication
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vSphere Fault Tolerance
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vSphere DRS
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MPIO / Third-Party Multi-pathing
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Remote Virtual Serial Port Concentrator
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vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration
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Distributed Power Management (DPM)
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vSphere Distributed Switch
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vSphere Host Profiles
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vSphere Storage I/O Control & Network I/O Control
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Direct Path vMotion
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vSphere Storage DRS
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vSphere Profile-Driven Storage
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vSphere vMotion Metro
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vSphere Auto Deploy
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vSphere View Accelerator
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SR-IOV
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Tags
vsphere-licensing
This Article Replaces
2046201
Update History
03/08/2013 - Updated Resolution section with comparison chart for 5.0 and 5.1
05/07/2013 - updated Resolution section with updated features.
05/09/2013 - Updated product features in the resolution section.
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