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VMware High Availability

High Availability offers protection against hardware outages and operating system faults. This service constantly monitors your virtual machines (VMs). If one of your VMs becomes inaccessible, High Availability will automatically reboot the VM on another server in your Hosted Private Cloud. In just a few minutes, without any manual intervention, your VM becomes available again.

VMware vMotion™

With vMotion, you can move your virtual machines between your hosts in just one click, while they are still running. There is no downtime involved, as the active memory and the execution statuses of your VMs are immediately transferred. And since the network is also virtualized, the VMs keep their network identity and connections. This means that scheduled maintenance for a server has zero impact on the end user.

VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler

The Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) optimizes your Hosted Private Cloud infrastructure by automatically distributing VMs to hosts that will help achieve optimal performance and resource usage. 

VMware Distributed Switch

Centralize the provisioning, administration and monitoring of your VM access switches across multiple hosts in a single interface with the Distributed Switch. It simplifies VM network configuration while enhancing your network monitoring and trouble shooting capabilities. 

VMware Storage vMotion

Migrate running VMs and their disk files from one datastore to another without any service disruptions for your end users. Storage vMotion helps mitigate downtime during planned maintenance and upgrades while providing the flexibility to optimize disks for improved performance. 

VMware Hot Add

Using the Hot Add feature, you can instantly increase the processor and RAM resources allocated to your VMs. The operation is carried out while the VM is on, without causing any increases in latency or downtime, and can be enabled in just one click.

VMware Update Manager

With Update Manager, updating all of your hosts becomes easy, with these tasks fully automated, to save you time. You can also use a dashboard to view the state of patches in your entire Hosted Private Cloud. This procedure considerably simplifies the way you manage updates and also protects your infrastructure against bugs and security vulnerabilities.

VMware vStorage API

Protect your Hosted Private Cloud with the vStorage APIs. With these programming interfaces, you can back up all of the virtual machines on your infrastructure from a centralized backup or from a VM. This means you no longer need to manage backup agents in each virtual machine or host.

VMware Thin Provisioning

Thin Provisioning decreases your storage requirements, by dynamically allocating disk space. Your VMs have access to the volume they need, without any negative effects on their performance. This feature is useful for reducing the number of storage spaces in your infrastructure, thus reducing your operational costs.

VMware Marketplace

Compress and share your virtual data with the VMware Marketplace. With this discussion platform, you can deploy hundreds of pre-configured, ready-to-use VMs. Also, your .ovf files can be used straight away, for even quicker, easier deployment.

VMware Storage I/O Control

With Storage I/O Control, you can define different rules and preferences to manage the I/O quality of your virtual machines. This way, you can set up a hierarchy for accessing a shared storage space.

VMware Network I/O Control

With Network I/O Control, you can configure rules and strategies for each virtual machine or critical application, so that it is always available. As soon as a need is detected, the feature automatically attributes resources to high-priority applications.