Datasheet VMware vSphere 6

VMware vSphere 6
Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus

Run applications with confidence and respond faster to your business

needs with VMware vSphere.

At a Glance ENTERPRISE
VMware vSphere empowers users to virtualize vSphere Features STANDARD ENTERPRISE
PLUS
any application with confidence, redefines
vSphere Virtual Symmetrical Multiprocessing,
availability and simplifies the virtual data TM
vRealize Foundation, vSphere High
center. The result is a highly available,
Availability (HA), vSphere Data Protection,
resilient, on-demand infrastructure that is the
ideal foundation of any cloud environment. vShield Endpoint, vSphere Replication, Hot

Add, vSphere Storage vMotion , vSphere
Key benefits Virtual Volumes, Storage Policy-Based
Efficiency through utilization and automation Management
Achieve consolidation ratios of 15:1 or more Cross vSwitch,
and improve hardware utilization from 515 Cross Cross
vSphere vMotion vCenter / Long
percent to as much as 80 percent or more vSwitch vSwitch
Distance
without sacrificing performance.

Maximize uptime across your x86-infrastructure vSphere Fault Tolerance 2-vCPU 2-vCPU 4-vCPU
Reduce unplanned downtime and eliminate
planned downtime for server and storage Reliable Memory
maintenance.
Dramatically lower IT costs Virtual Serial Port Concentrator
Reduce capital expenditures by up to 70

percent and operational expenditures by up to vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration and

30 percent to achieve 2030 percent lower IT Multipathing
infrastructure costs for each application
vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler and
running on vSphere.
Distributed Power Management (DPM)
Agility with control

Respond quickly to changing business needs vSphere Big Data Extensions
without sacrificing security or control, and
deliver zero-touch infrastructure with built-in
vSphere Flash Read Cache
availability, scalability and performance
guarantees for all business-critical
vSphere Distributed Switch
applications running on vSphere.

I/O Controls (Network and Storage)

vSphere Host Profiles and Auto Deploy

vSphere Storage DRS

Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) support

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Topics

What is VMware vSphere? VMware vSphere vMotion enables live migration of virtual machines
VMware vSphere empowers users to virtualize any application with between servers and across virtual switches with no disruption to users
confidence, redefines availability and simplifies the virtual data center. or loss of service, eliminating the need to schedule application
The result is a highly available, resilient, on-demand infrastructure downtime for planned server maintenance.
that is the ideal foundation of any cloud environment. This can drive VMware vSphere Storage vMotion enables live migration of
down data center cost, increase system and application uptime, and virtual-machine disks with no disruption to users, eliminating the need
drastically simplify the way IT runs the data center. vSphere is to schedule application downtime for planned storage maintenance or
purpose-built for the next generation of applications and serves as the storage migrations.
core foundational building block for the Software-Defined Data Center. VMware vSphere High Availability (HA) provides cost-effective,
vSphere accelerates the shift to cloud computing for existing data automated restart within minutes for all applications if a hardware or
centers and also underpins compatible public cloud offerings, forming operating system failure occurs.
the foundation a hybrid cloud model. With the support of more than VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) provides continuous availability of
3,000 applications from more than 2,000 ISV partners, vSphere is the any application in the event of a hardware failure with no data loss
trusted platform for any application. or downtime. For workloads up to 2-vCPU.
VMware vSphere Data Protection is VMwares backup and replication
How is vSphere used? solution. It delivers storage efficient backups through patented
variable-length deduplication, rapid recovery and WAN-optimized
Virtualize Applications with Confidence Deliver enhanced scale,
replication for DR. Its vSphere-integration and simple user interface
performance and availability that enables users to virtualize scale-up
makes it an easy and effective backup tool for vSphere. It provides
and scale-out applications with confidence.
agentless,image-level VM backups to disk and application-aware
Simplify Management of the Virtual Data Center Manage the creation,
protection for business-critical applications (e.g., Exchange, SQL
sharing, deployment, and migration of virtual machines with powerful
Server) along with WAN-efficient, encrypted backup replication across
yet simple and intuitive tools.
sites.
Data Center Migration and Maintenance Perform live workload
VMware vShield Endpoint secures virtual machines with offloaded
migrations and data center maintenance with zero application
antivirus and antimalware solutions without the need for agents inside
downtime.
the virtual machine.
Transform Storage for Virtual Machines Enable your external storage
VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes enables abstraction for external
arrays to operate in a more VM-centric manner that increases
storage (SAN and NAS) devices making them virtual machine-aware.
performance and efficiency for your virtual machine operations.
VMware vSphere Storage Policy-Based Management allows common
Enable Choice in How to Build and Operate Cloud
management across storage tiers and dynamic storage class of service
Environments Build and operate cloud environments that fit your
automation via a policy-driven control plane.
needs using vSphere and the VMware stack or open-source frameworks
VMware vSphere Content Library provides simple and effective
such as OpenStack and the VMware Integrated OpenStack add-on.
centralized management for VM templates, virtual appliances, ISO
images, and scripts.
Key features and components
VMware vSphere Hypervisor Architecture provides a robust,
Additional Components Available with Enterprise Edition
production-proven, high-performance virtualization layer. It enables
VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler provides dynamic,
multiple virtual machines to share hardware resources with
hardware-independent load balancing and resource allocation for
performance that can match (and in some cases exceed) native
virtual machines in a cluster, using policy-driven automation to reduce
throughput.
management complexity while meeting SLAs.
VMware vSphere Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing enables the use of
VMware vSphere Distributed Power Management automates energy
ultra-powerful virtual machines that possess up to 128 virtual CPUs.
efficiency in vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler clusters by
VMware vSphere Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) allows virtual
continuously optimizing server power consumption within each cluster.
machines to access shared storage devices (Fibre Channel, iSCSI, etc.)
VMware vSphere Reliable Memory places critical vSphere components
and is a key enabling technology for other vSphere components such
(such as the hypervisor) into memory regions identified as reliable on
as VMware vSphere Storage vMotion.
supported hardware. This further protects components from an
VMware vSphere Storage APIs provide integration with supported
uncorrectable memory error.
third-party data protection, multipathing and disk array solutions.
VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions run Hadoop on vSphere to achieve
VMware vSphere Thin Provisioning provides dynamic allocation of
higher utilization, reliability and agility. vSphere Big Data Extensions
shared storage capacity, enabling IT organizations to implement a
support multiple Hadoop distributions and make it seamless for IT to
tiered storage strategy while reducing storage spending by up to 50
deploy, run and manage Hadoop workloads on one common platform.
percent.

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Additional Components Available with Enterprise Plus Edition Remote access via onboard Integrated Remote Management
VMware vSphere Distributed Switch simplifies and enhances Controller (IRMC), Remote Management Controller (RMC),
virtual-machine networking in vSphere environments and enables Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), or Remote Service
those environments to use third-party distributed virtual switches. Board (RSB)
VMware vSphere Storage I/O Control and VMware vSphere Network I/O
Even enables access to the hardware for diagnostic purposes in the
Control set storage and network quality-of-service priorities for
event of a failure.
guaranteed access to resources.
VMware vSphere Auto Deploy performs quick, as-needed deployment
Support
of additional vSphere hosts. When vSphere Auto Deploy is running, it
pushes out update images, eliminating patching and the need to Mandatory Support and Subscription (SNS)
schedule patch windows. SNS (Support and Subscription) is mandatory for at least 1 year for all
VMware vSphere Host Profiles help IT administrators simplify host VMware software products. Fujitsu offers its own support for VMware
deployment and compliance. OEM software products. This support is available for different retention
VMware vSphere Storage DRS automates load balancing by using periods and different support levels. The Fujitsu support levels are:
storage characteristics to determine the best place for a virtual
Platinum Support (7x24h) or Gold Support (5x9h). Both service levels
machines data to reside, both when it is created and when it is used
can be ordered either for 1, 3 or 5 year support terms. Please choose
over time.
the appropriate Support for your project.
VMware vSphere Flash Read Cache virtualizes server-side flash
providing a high performance read cache layer that dramatically Your support agreement is with Fujitsu and VMware exclusively
lowers application latency. through Fujitsu (not with VMware directly). SNS is only for Fujitsu
VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance provides continuous availability of any servers like PRIMERGY and PRIMEQUEST. Of course, SNS for VMware
application in the event of a hardware failure with no data loss or (OEM) software products can be renewed at Fujitsu prior to the end of
downtime. For workloads up to 4-vCPU. the SNS term. SNS for VMware (OEM) software products cannot be
VMware vSphere vMotion enables live migration of virtual machines renewed at VMware directly.
between servers, across vCenter Servers, and over long distances (up
to 100 milliseconds round trip time) with no disruption to users or loss Support Terms and Conditions
of service, eliminating the need to schedule application downtime for
Fujitsu Terms and Conditions can be found under:
planned server maintenance.
NVIDIA GRID vGPU delivers the full benefits of NVIDIA FUJITSU ServiceContract Software
hardware-accelerated graphics to virtualized solutions. FUJITSU Support Pack Software
Technical Appendix VMware Software
Recommended Add-on
VMware vCenter ServervCenter Server provides unified management Fujitsu Professional Service
for the entire virtual infrastructure and enables many key vSphere Installation, configuration or optimization services for VMware software
capabilities such as live migration. vCenter Server can manage are optional service offerings. Additionally operations services from
thousands of virtual machines across multiple locations and Fujitsu are available. Any additional and optional service can be
streamlines administration with features such as rapid provisioning requested from Fujitsu Professional Services.
and automated policy enforcement.
Product Activation Code Registration
Note: vCenter Server is a required element of a complete vSphere
Please register your activation code at
implementation and is licensed separately on a per-instance basis.
http://www.vmware.com/code/fsc.
Registration will generate the license key. Help can be found at:
PRIMERGY
Following PRIMERGY Servers are released for VMware software: http://www.vmware.com/support/licensing.html.
VMware Systems Compatibility HCL: http://vmware.com/go/hcl If you have any problems, you can send an email to
[email protected].
Fujitsu Manageability with ServerView Suite
ServerView is able to manage PRIMERGY servers by means of the CIM Warranty
provider that Fujitsu has integrated for VMware vSphere Class: C
Management of the physical machine under the host operating
system ESXi Conditions
ServerView RAID for configuration and management of the RAID This software product is supplied to the customer under the VMware
controllers in the physical machine conditions as set forth in the EULA of the VMware software at
Management of the virtual machines under the guest operating http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/.
systems Windows and Linux

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