VMware vSphere 8 Enterprise Plus

VMware vSphere 8 Enterprise Plus is the flagship edition of the industry’s leading virtualization platform, representing the highest tier of performance, availability, and management capability for enterprise-scale environments. It is specifically engineered to support demanding, mission-critical workloads while enabling seamless IT modernization.

vSphere 8 Enterprise Plus retains all the core advanced features that organizations rely on, such as vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) for continuous application availability and vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) for intelligent, automated workload balancing across your entire cluster. It includes the necessary management components like the vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) and Host Profiles to ensure centralized networking and configuration compliance across thousands of virtual machines (VMs).

The key benefits of moving to vSphere 8 lie in its enhancements for modern IT:

• Next-Gen Hardware Acceleration: vSphere 8 introduces the Distributed Services Engine, which leverages Data Processing Units (DPUs) and SmartNICs to offload infrastructure tasks (like networking and security) from the main host CPU. This significantly increases available CPU cycles for application workloads, drastically improving performance and efficiency.
• Security and AI: The platform delivers intrinsic security with features like vSphere Trust Authority (vTA) and enhanced integration with accelerators (like vGPU) for sophisticated AI/Machine Learning workloads.
• Modern Workloads: By including vSphere with Tanzu functionality, Enterprise Plus allows IT administrators to run containers and Kubernetes clusters directly on the same infrastructure as traditional VMs, unifying application management and accelerating developer velocity on a highly reliable foundation.

This edition is purchased via a subscription, per-core licensing model, and is the comprehensive choice for any organization that requires the ultimate in virtualization stability, automation, and support for current and future technologies.