vSphere Product Breakdown by Edition

Additional Products

vCenter Operations Manager

• Monitors trends and looks for risks
• Works with vCenter server to gather and consolidate performance statistics into “SuperMetrics”
• SuperMetrics organized into categories: Health, Risk, and Efficiency
  • Health: Immediate issues that need to be resolved or investigated
  • Risk: Issues that will affect capacity or performance in the future
  • Efficiency: Issues that involve proper sizing of a VM’s CPU, RAM or HDD
• Dynamically adjust threshholds to prevent false positives based on your normal usages
• Can change criteria to play “What If” scenerios for testing.

vCenter Configuration Manager

• Tied into vCenter to monitor configuration changes that affect vCenter, ESXi hosts and VMs
• Integrates vCenter Operations Manager to provide holistic view of environment
• Compare 3rd Party specifications for security hardening and regulatory compliance
• Automated to notify you when deviations occur.
• Can even automatically enforce and remediate non-compliant configurations
• Can help you adhere to a vendor’s requirements
• Can correlate changes to current events easily.
• Finally, is a useful security tool that allows systematic hardening of an environment and audit that configuration.

vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

• Is an orchestration tool for site recovery
• Used to test and perform recoveries
• Can perform non-disruptive testing so plan can be assured during time of need
• Can also be used for Data Center migrations using vSphere Replication and can provide “Point in time” recovery options.