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vCenter Backup and Restore
vCenter Server Appliance Migration Tool
Virtual Machine Encryption
Proactive High Availability
vSphere Integrated Containers
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
Distributed Power Management
Big Data Extensions
Distributed Switch
Storage DRS
I/O Controls (Network and Storage) and SR-IOV No
Host Profiles and Auto Deploy
Flash Read Cache
Cross-vCenter and Long Distance vMotion
vGPU
Predictive DRS
vSphere Monitoring
Capacity Optimization
Operations Visibility
* 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
Licensing
Cluster size
Storage-Policy Based Management
Flash Read/Write Caching
Distributed RAID
Virtual Distributed Switch
Rack Awareness
vSphere Replication
Software Checksum
All-Flash Hardware
iSCSI Target Service
IOPS Limit
Lenovo ThinkAgile VX5520 Appliance
VMware vSphere software edition
Operations
Management
Enterprise
Enterprise
Standard
Plus
Plus
Yes*
Yes*
Yes*
Yes*
Yes*
Yes*
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes**
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
VMware vSAN software edition
Standard Advanced
Processor-based (per 1 processor)
3 - 64
3 - 64
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Standard
for ROBO
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Enterprise
ROBO
VM-based (per 25 VMs)
3 - 64
2
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Advanced
for ROBO
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
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