vSphere server profiles are also available for customers with multiple vCenters. vCenter will also monitor and notify on deviations to ESXi host compliance from this template configuration. For organizations with large ESXi footprints, this allows IT to capture Host level configurations and apply them to other ESXi hosts. Host Profiles are also included with Entrprise Plus. This provides data-at-rest encryption for VM configuration data and disks. With Enterprise Plus, organizations can leverage VM encryption. I honestly don’t see much FT in the wild so unless you are already running FT (not to be confused with HA), you probably don’t care about this feature.

The Enterprise Plus bumps that limit up to 8 vCPUs per FT VM. With Standard licensing, you are able to leverage FT capabilities for 2 vCPU Virtual Machines. On-Prem isn’t going anywhere soon so there will be lots of cross-linked environments that administrators will want to vMotion between. This feature will obviously become more valuable to customers as they continue their journey to the cloud. This can be on-premises or to cloud based environments.

VSphere Enterprise Plus allows customers with multiple linked vCenters to vMotion VMs across to them. There is a whitepaper that describes ALL the differences between these two editions but I’ll summarize the features I feel are most important below: Enhanced vCenter vMotion vSphere Standard and vSphere Enterprise Plus. Since then, VMware has done a great job simplifying that down to 2 types of licensing. Standard, Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus. Types of LicensingĪt one time, there were 4 types of vSphere licensing a customer could purchase. It had been a while since I took a deep dive into the differences (2017 in fact!) so I figured I’d take this opportunity to write it up. Recently I was working with a client who needed to know the difference between the various versions of VMware’s vSphere licensing.

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