Software Details
- ( v. 5 )
- 1 processor
- product upgrade license
- upgrade from VMware vSphere Enterprise 5.0
Know your gear
VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus includes all the new vSphere 5 features including Host Profiles and vNetwork Distributed Switch for transforming datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud computing environments.
Note: If you have not yet done so, you must first upgrade from VMware Infrastructure to VMware vSphere.
By upgrading from vSphere Enterprise to vSphere Enterprise Plus, you can: utilize VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch to reduce costs and improve the accuracy of managing virtual networking while enabling third-party software switches such as the Cisco Nexus 1000v to plug directly into the vSphere infrastructure; utilize VMware Host Profiles to provide a configuration management tool for VMware ESX and ESXi hosts, ensuring configuration compliance and automating the configuration of new servers added into the environment; scale up hardware configurations and 8-way vSMP to support the most resource intensive Tier 1 applications.
Note: If you have not yet done so, you must first upgrade from VMware Infrastructure to VMware vSphere.
By upgrading from vSphere Enterprise to vSphere Enterprise Plus, you can: utilize VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch to reduce costs and improve the accuracy of managing virtual networking while enabling third-party software switches such as the Cisco Nexus 1000v to plug directly into the vSphere infrastructure; utilize VMware Host Profiles to provide a configuration management tool for VMware ESX and ESXi hosts, ensuring configuration compliance and automating the configuration of new servers added into the environment; scale up hardware configurations and 8-way vSMP to support the most resource intensive Tier 1 applications.