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VMware vSphere™ 4

What is VMware vSphere™ 4?

VMware vSphere 4, the industry’s  rst cloud OS

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VMware vCenter Suite

VMware vSphere 4

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Fault Tolerance

Data Recovery

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VMware vSphere™ 4 is the industry’s  rst cloud operating system, which uses the power of virtualization to transform

datacenters into dramatically simpli ed cloud computing infrastructures and enables IT organizations to deliver the next

generation of  exible and reliable IT services, using internal and external resources, securely and with low risk.

VMware vSphere, the next generation of the powerful and proven VMware® Infrastructure 3 platform used by more

than 130,000 customers, dramatically reduces capital and operating costs, increases control over delivery of IT services

while preserving the  exibility to choose between any type of OS, application and hardware, hosted in-house or using

external resources.

Summary of content (9 pages)

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CS VMware vSphere™ 4 CHEAT SHEET What is VMware vSphere™ 4? VMware vSphere™ 4 is the industry’s first cloud operating system, which uses the power of virtualization to transform datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud computing infrastructures and enables IT organizations to deliver the next generation of flexible and reliable IT services, using internal and external resources, securely and with low risk.
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What are the benefits of VMware vSphere 4? VMware vSphere: • Dramatically reduces capital expenses per application by 50% and operating expenses per application by over 60% • Increases control over delivery of IT services with built-in, automated availability, security and scalability • Preserves the flexibility to choose between any type of OS, application and hardware, hosted in-house or using external resources What’s new with VMware vSphere 4? • VMware vSphere 4 builds on VMware Infrastructure 3 and ad
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Updates to Existing Products/Features Product/Feature What is it? What are the benefits? VMware® Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)/VMware® Distributed Power Management (DPM) • DRS continuously monitors virtual machines and physical servers to optimally align compute capacity to application requirements based on business priorities • Automated matching of application demand to computing resources • DPM optimizes DRS clusters for the lowest possible power consumption VMware® Storage VMotion • Live m
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VMware vStorage APIs (Formerly VMware Consolidated Backup)     VMware vCenter Server Agent     VMware ESX/ESXi     Limits on number of cores per CPU Up to 6 processor cores per physical CPU Up to 12 processor cores per physical CPU Up to 6 processor cores per physical CPU Up to 12 processor cores per physical CPU Limits on memory per host 256GB physical memory per host 256GB physical memory per host 256GB physical memory per host No license memory limit License $795 $
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New vSphere Editions Designed for SMBs All inclusive packages with licenses for 3 servers (up to 2 CPUs each) and the license for the central license server. Features Included and No.
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CS New Sales Opportunities Enabled by VMware vSphere 4 1.
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Competitive Overview for VMware vSphere 4 Most Efficient: • vSphere’s higher consolidation ratios and higher scalability result in better CapEx savings • vSphere’s Infrastructure, Application and vCenter Management services result in better OpEx savings Uncompromised Control: • VMware technologies like DRS, DPM, FT, VMsafe, Host Profiles, Storage VMotion, and others allow IT to deliver on SLAs while maintaining control Maximum Choice • VMware strives to support whatever hardware, application stack, manage
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Comparison Tables Most Efficient Hardware Scale Out 64 logical cores 512GB RAM 24 logical cores 1TB TAM 32 logical cores 128GB RAM CPU Efficiency CPU HW-assist or BT Virtspecific scheduler Requires HW-assist Reuse gen-OS scheduler Requires HW-assist for Win Reuse gen-OS scheduler Memory Efficiency Memory HW-assist Overcommit/sharing Memory HW-assist No overcommitment Memory HW-assist No overcommitment Virtual Hardware (VM) Scale Out 8-way vCPU 255GM vRAM 4-way on Win08 only 64GB vRAM 8-way v
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Comparison Tables Maximum Choice Choice through Guest OS Support > OSs supported >30 More Windows than MS M 11 1 OSs supported Windows biased W 20 2 OSs supported Choice through Hardware Support L Large HCL: >450 HBAs, >160 NICs, >450 Servers > U Using Windows drivers Potential driver issues P V Very limited HCL ~100 Servers ~ Choice through Application Support L Leader category (according tto a lead analyst firm) LLeader category (according tto a lead analyst firm) N Next-tier category (accordi