vCenter Backup and Restore
Yes*
Yes*
Yes*
No
No
vCenter Server Appliance Migration Tool
Yes*
Yes*
Yes*
No
No
Virtual Machine Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Proactive High Availability
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
vSphere Integrated Containers
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Distributed Power Management
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Big Data Extensions
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Distributed Switch
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Storage DRS
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
I/O Controls (Network and Storage) and SR-IOV No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Host Profiles and Auto Deploy
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Flash Read Cache
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Cross-vCenter and Long Distance vMotion
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
vGPU
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Predictive DRS
No
Yes**
Yes
No
No
vSphere Monitoring
No
No
Yes
No
No
Capacity Optimization
No
No
Yes
No
No
Operations Visibility
No
No
Yes
No
No
Feature
VMware vSphere software edition
Standard
Enterprise
Plus
Operations
Management
Enterprise
Plus
Standard
for ROBO
Advanced
for ROBO
* Requires vCenter Server Standard.
** Requires vRealize Operations Standard.
The following table compares features of the VMware vSAN software editions.
Table 15. VMware vSAN software editions feature comparison
Feature
VMware vSAN software edition
Standard Advanced Enterprise ROBO
Licensing
Processor-based (per 1 processor)
VM-based (per 25 VMs)
Cluster size
3 - 64
3 - 64
3 - 64
2
Storage-Policy Based Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Flash Read/Write Caching
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Distributed RAID
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Virtual Distributed Switch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Rack Awareness
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
vSphere Replication
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Software Checksum
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
All-Flash Hardware
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
iSCSI Target Service
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
IOPS Limit
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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