VMware vSphere 7.0 Editions

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With the release of vSphere 7.0, there are some changes to the editions. Actually not really much, rather the end of availability of vSphere Platinum, vCloud Foundation Platinum, and vCloud Suite Platinum effective 2nd Apr 2020.

This doesn't come as a surprise since VMware has acquired Carbon Black, so I make sense to evaluate AppDefence with integration into the main Carbon Black solution.

Below are the editions for your reference:
vSphere
ROBO Kits
Scale-Out
Free
ESS
ESS+
STD
ENT+
STD
ADV
ENT
Scale-Out
Hypervisor
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
vMotion
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
High Availability
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Data Protection & Replication
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
vShield Endpoint
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Fault Tolerance
2-vCPU
8-vCPU
2-vCPU
4-vCPU
4-vCPU
Storage vMotion
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
DRS and DPM

Yes
Storage APIs
 Yes
Yes
Yes
Persistent Memory

Yes
Distributed Switch

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Storage DRS (Profile-Driven Storage)

Yes
I/O Controls & SR-IOV

Yes
Yes
Host Profiles & Auto Deploy

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
VM Encryption

Yes
Yes
Federated Identity
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trust Authority
Yes
Image Management and Firmware
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
vCenter Server Profile
Yes
vCenter Server update planner
Yes


You will realize what happened to Project Pacific? That is the big thing everyone was waiting for in vSphere 7.0.

There is a new SKU known as vSphere Add-on for Kubernetes which is licensed in term of 1 year or 3 years by per CPU

But wait, there is a caveat. vSphere Add-on for Kubernetes can only be purchase with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 4.0. So only existing VCF customers (upgrade to VCF 4,.0) or new VCF 4.0 customers will be able to purchase this add-on to utilize Project Pacific.

I guess many vSphere customers will be disappointed. With this release, it makes sense as believe VMware is trying to allow the use of build-in Kubernetes with NSX as the container network and vSAN for the storage at the start. Hopefully once that pick up, VMware will release to naked vSphere.

Meanwhile, let's hear from VCF users and see what are their thoughts.


Update 10th Apr 2020
For the vSphere Hypervisor (free edition), the limitation is as follows documented here:
  • Number of cores per physical CPU: No limit
  • Number of physical CPUs per host: No limit
  • Number of logical CPUs per host: 480
  • Maximum vCPUs per virtual machine: 8
  • Operating system support: Industry leader of supported operating systems. See a complete list of supported versions . Note: Refer to the release notes and configuration maximums guide for latest specifications.

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