vSphere 5.1: Which edition considerations
With the release of new vSphere 5.1. There are lots of new improvement that includes license change as well as features included in the lower editions of vSphere 5.1 which were only present in the higher editions in vSphere 5.0. Below is a overview of features in vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 To keep things simple I will not be going through every features here but would like to bring attention just to those that are made available to the lower editions in vSphere 5.1. Essential: No change. Only the Hypervisor. Essential Plus: Added vShield Endpoint, vSphere Replication, Hot Add. Standard: Added those in Essential Plus and vShield Zones, Fault Tolerance, Storage vMotion. Enterprise & Enterprise Plus: Almost similar. Consideration 1 For Essential and Essential Plus, it still much more applicable to SMB or Remote offices whereby there is no need of the performance guarantee since typically such environment do not have much workloads. The limitation still applie...