VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus ( v. 5.0 ) - product upgrade license

The best platform for building out cloud infrastructures, VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus includes the full range of vSphere features for transforming datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud computing environments providing the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services. With vSphere Enterprise Plus, you can reduce capital and operating costs by over 50%, simplify the operational management of large virtualization deployments, integrate across a broad range of hardware, operating systems, application stacks, and service providers.

VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus includes: VMware Hypervisor or VMware ESX hypervisor architectures (deployment-time choice, VMware recommends Hypervisor), VMFS (Virtual Machine File System), 8-way Virtual SMP, VMware vCenter Server Agent, VMware vStorage APIs / VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB), VMware Update Manager, VMware High Availability (HA), VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning, VMware VMotion, VMware Hot Add, VMware Fault Tolerance, VMware Data Recovery, VMware vShield Zones, VMware Storage VMotion, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM), VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch, VMware Host Profiles, VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection / VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB), VMware vStorage APIs for Multipathing, VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration, VMware Storage I/O Control, VMware Network I/O Control, VMware DirectPath I/O.