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Central Management
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Yes (vCenter Server Standard)
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vCenter Server Standard
Centralized visibility, proactive management and extensibility for VMware vSphere from a single console
VMware vCenter Server provides a centralized platform for managing your VMware vSphere environments, so you can automate and deliver a virtual infrastructure with confidence.
Available as Windows or Apliance VCSA with embeded or separate PSC.
- Simplified architecture (integrated vCenter Server Appliance, Update Manager included all-in-one), no Windows/SQL licensing
- Native High Availability (HA) of vCenter for the appliance is built-in – Automatic failover (Web Client may require re-login)
- Native Backup and Restore of vCenter appliance – Simplified backup and restore with a new native file-based solution. Restore the vCenter Server configuration to a fresh appliance and stream backups to external storage using HTTP, FTP, or SCP protocols.
- New HTML5-based vSphere Client that is both responsive and easy to use (Based on our new Clarity UI)
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Yes - OVM Manager & Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control
Oracle offers Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control in addition to Oracle VM Manager for Central Management. OEM13c Cloud Control extends Oracle VM Manager with Cloud Capabilities. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E64076_01/E64082/html/index.html and http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMCLO/GUID-152C4D4A-6FC2-42B0-ABE3-5884D6A466F4.htm#EMCLO180
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Virtual and Physical
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Limited (plug-ins)
vCenter and associated components focus on management of virtual infrastructure - physical (non-virtualized) infrastructure will typically require separate management.
However, one can argue that there are increasingly aspects of physical management (bare metal host deploy, vCenter Operations capabilities, vCenter monitoring of physical hosts etc. but the core focusses on the virtual aspects).
Additionally, VMware encourages 3rd party vendors to provide management plug-ins for the vCenter Client (classic or web) that can manage peripheral components of the environment (3rd party storage, servers etc.).
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Yes - Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control
Oracle offers Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control to provision and manage Virtual Guests, Oracle VM Hosts and Physical Servers. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMLCM/GUID-E1076C88-A0FE-4F2C-AD58-1E4A3BA32757.htm
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RBAC / AD-Integration
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Yes (vCenter and ESXi hosts)
Platform Services Controller (PSC) deals with identity management for administrators and applications that interact with the vSphere platform.
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Yes - Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control
Oracle offers Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control to provide RBAC/ AD-Integration or LDAP-compliant director server. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMSEC/GUID-5DD3B11A-1159-40BD-8AEB-41EDE664AB12.htm#EMSEC13094 and http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMSEC/GUID-5DD3B11A-1159-40BD-8AEB-41EDE664AB12.htm#EMSEC12846
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Cross-Vendor Mgmt
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vRealize Automation (Vendor Add-On)
VMware vRealize Automation automates the delivery of personalized infrastructure, applications and custom IT services.
This cloud automation software lets you deploy across a multi-vendor hybrid cloud infrastructure, giving you both flexibility and investment protection for current and future technology choices.
http://www.vmware.com/mena/products/vrealize-automation.html
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Yes - Adding 3rd Party Plug-in from Bluemedora Partner
Classified as limited because it is not a default feature and 3rd party plugin is needed. More info on: http://www.bluemedora.com/products/plugin-for-vmware/
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Browser Based Mgmt
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Yes (vSphere Web Client, HTML5 Web Client)
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vSphere Client - new version of the HTML5-based vSphere Client that will run alongside the vSphere Web Client. The vSphere Client is built right into vCenter Server 6.5 (both Windows and Appliance) and is enabled by default.
vSphere Web Client - improvements will help with the overall user experience. (Home screen reorganized, Performance improvements, Live refresh for power states, tasks.)
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Yes - OVM Manager & Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control
Both Oracle VM Manager and Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control are HTML Browser Based Mgmt. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E64076_01/E64082/html/index.html and http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMCLO/GUID-152C4D4A-6FC2-42B0-ABE3-5884D6A466F4.htm#EMCLO180
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Adv. Operation Management
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Yes (VMware vRealize Operations)
VMware vRealize Operations. Optimize resource usage through reclamation and right sizing, cross-cluster workload placement and improved planning and forecasting. Enforce IT and configuration standards for an optimal infrastructure.
http://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-operations.html
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Yes - Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control
Oracle offers Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control for Advanced Operation Management. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E64076_01/E64082/html/index.html and http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMCLO/GUID-152C4D4A-6FC2-42B0-ABE3-5884D6A466F4.htm#EMCLO180
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Updates and Backup |
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Hypervisor Upgrades
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Yes (Update Manager)
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VMware Update Manager (VUM) is now part of the vCenter Server Appliance.
VUM is using own postgress db, can benefit from VCSA native HA and Backup.
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Yes
Oracle VM provides the capability to upgrade the OVM Servers by the usage of Oracle VM Manager or Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control with Zero Downtime, Migrating (Live) the VMs to other Hosts in the Cluster/Server Pool. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E64076_01/
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Limited (Update Manager)
With vSphere 5 update manager discontinued patching of guest operating systems. It does however provide upgrades of VMware Tools, upgrades of the virtual machine hardware for virtual machines and upgrades of virtual appliances.
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Yes
Oracle provides Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control for Linux Patching. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMLCM/GUID-91D92136-E452-48C6-AD49-3D88E8CC575F.htm#EMLCM11557
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Yes
VMware snapshots can be taken and committed online (including a snapshot of the virtual machine memory).
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Yes - Hot Clones
Oracle provides the ability to execute Hot Clones that works similarly to Snapshots, but ther is no Snapshot Manager. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E64076_01/
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Backup Integration API
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Yes (vStorage API Data Protection)
vStorage API for Data Protection: Enables integration of 3rd party backup products for centralized backup.
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Yes
Is possible to perform classic backup using agents in the guests but due to the REST API for both OVM Manager and EM13c Cloud Control any time soon there will be integration on the Hypervisor Level
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Integrated Backup
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Yes (vSphere Data Protection) - Replication of backup data, granular backup and scheduling
vSphere® Data Protection is a backup and recovery solution designed for vSphere environments. Powered by EMC Avamar, it provides agent-less, image-level virtual machine backups to disk. It also provides application-aware protection for business-critical Microsoft applications (Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint) along with WAN-efficient, encrypted backup data replication. vSphere Data Protection is fully integrated with vCenter Server and vSphere Web Client.
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No
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Deployment |
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Automated Host Deployments
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Yes (Auto Deploy)
NEW
Auto Deploy is now part of the vCenter Server Appliance.
Integration with VCSA 6.5 can benefit from navive HA or Backup
Configurable trough GUI interface of web client.
Can manage 300+ hosts
Post boot scripts allow for aditional automation.
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Yes
Oracle offers Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control to automate Host Deployments (both Oracle VM Servers and Physical/Virtual Oracle Linux Servers). More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMLCM/GUID-CBC1C903-8541-40BC-A0B2-E5B57F389DE7.htm#EMLCM11421
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Yes (Content Library)
Content Library – Provides simple and effective management for VM templates, vApps, ISO images and scripts for vSphere Admins – collectively called “content” – that can be synchronized across sites and vCenter Servers.
vSphere 6.5 - possibility to Mount ISO, Customize VM from within the content library, Update an existing template with a new version.
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Yes
Oracle offers the ability to create and deploy both Templates and Virtual Appliances. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E64076_01/
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Tiered VM Templates
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Yes (vApp/OVF)
Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
vApp is a collection of virtual machines (VMs) and sometimes other vApps that host a multi-tier application, its policies and service levels.
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Yes
Oracle offers the ability to create and deploy both Templates and Virtual Appliances. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E64076_01/
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Yes (Host Profiles)
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Host profiles eliminates per-host, manual, or UI-based host configuration and maintain configuration consistency using a reference configuration which can be applied or used to check compliance status.
vSphere 6.5 new features: Filters, Bookmarks
Host customizations (answer files) for offline customization
Copy settings between profiles
New pre-check, Compliance view enhancements
Remediation (DRS integrated), Parallel remediation
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Yes
Oracle offers Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control to automate Host Deployments with a defined baseline and it is also possible to compare configurations between Hosts. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMLCM/GUID-BC478C2B-A4D9-4855-80A2-4A00D63FC302.htm#EMLCM11613
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Yes (Storage Based Policy Management)
Using the Storage Based Policy Management (SPBM) framework, administrators can define different policies with different IO limits, and then assign VMs to those policies. This simplifies the ability to offer varying tiers of storage services and provides the ability to validate policy compliance.
The policy-driven control plane is the management layer of the VMware software-defined storage model, which automates storage operations through a standardized approach that spans across the heterogeneous tiers of storage in the virtual data plane.
Storage Policy-Based Management (SPBM) is VMware’s implementation of the policy-driven control plane which provides common management over:
- vSphere Virtual Volumes - external storage (SAN/NAS)
- Virtual SAN – x86 server storage
- Hypervisor-based data services – vSphere Replication or third-party solutions enabled by the vSphere APIs for IO Filtering.
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Other |
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Yes
vSphere supports hierarchical resource pools (parent and child pools) for CPU and memory resources on individual hosts and across hosts in a cluster. They allow for resource isolation and sharing between pools and for access delegation of resources in a cluster. Please note that DRS must be enabled for resource pool functionality if hosts are in a cluster. If DRS is not enabled the hosts must be moved out of the cluster for (local) resource pools to work.
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Yes (vCenter Converter)
VMware vCenter Converter transforms your Windows- and Linux-based physical machines and third-party image formats to VMware virtual machines.
http://www.vmware.com/products/converter.html
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Yes
Oracle offers the same media used to install the Hypervisors as the P2V and V2V Converter. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E64076_01/
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Self Service Portal
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No (native)
Yes (with Vendor Add-On: vCloud Suite, vRealize Automation)
Self-Service Portal functionality is primarily provided by components in VMwares vCloud Suite or vRealize Automation - a comprehensive cloud portfolio with a single purchase enabled with a per-processor licensing metric.
http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-suite.html
http://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-automation.html
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Yes
Oracle offers Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control to create Self Service Portals with Service Catalogues, Billing, Quotas and so on. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMCLO/GUID-88E5C1CF-B37B-4F0A-8D1A-284C771885EA.htm#EMCLO222
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Orchestration / Workflows
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Yes (vRealize Orchestrator)
vRealize Orchestrator is included with vCenter Server Standard and allows admins to capture often executed tasks/best practices and turn them into automated workflows (drag and drop) or use out of the box workflows. An increasing number of plug-ins is available to enable automation of tasks related to related products.
http://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-orchestrator.html
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Yes
Oracle offers Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control to create Self Service Portals with Workflows to provision VMs or to create Jobs to automate Manual Tasks. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/index.htm
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Yes (ESXi Firewall, vShield Endpoint, VM Encryption)
new in vSphere 6.5:
- VM Encryption (n/a for Standard)
- vMotion Encryption (n/a for Standard)
- ESXi Secure Boot,
- Virtual Machine Secure Boot,
- Enhanced Logging
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Yes
The whole OVM Infrastructure, including Oracle VM Manager, Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control and Oracle VM Servers are secure by default due to the usage of SSL encryption and Certificate Based Authentication. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/EMSEC/toc.htm and http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E64076_01/E64084/html/index.html
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Systems Management
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vSphere’s REST API, PowerCLI, vSphere CLI, ESXCLI, Datacenter CLI
vSphere’s REST APIs have been extended to include VCSA and VM based management and configuration tasks. There’s also a new way to explore the available vSphere REST APIs with the API Explorer. The API Explorer is available locally on the vCenter server.
PowerCLI is now 100% module based, the Core module now supports cross vCenter vMotion by way of the Move-VM cmdlet.
The VSAN module has been bolstered to feature 13 different cmdlets which focus on trying to automate the entire lifecycle of VSAN.
ESXCLI, now features several new storage based commands for handling VSAN core dump procedures, utilizing VSAN’s iSCSI functionality, managing NVMe devices, and other core storage commands. NIC based commands such as queuing, coalescing, and basic FCOE tasks.
Datacenter CLI (DCLI), which is also installed as part of vCLI, can make use of all the new vSphere REST APIs!
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Yes
Oracle offers Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control and Ops Center for Oracle Hardware alerting and Monitoring, both Web/CLI Based. More info on: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E73210_01/index.htm
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