VMware vSphere Standard provides an entry solution for basic consolidation of applications to slash hardware costs while accelerating application deployment.
It means that if you plan to acquire new server for your virtual infrastructure, you plan to have a server which has two physical CPUs inside, you’ll have to buy two Standard or two Enterprise Plus licenses to cover this host..
Let’s look what is different first from the licensing standpoint, between Standard and Enterprise Plus versions.
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You can create abstracted network devices called vSphere Standard Switches. You use standard switches to provide network connectivity to hosts and virtual machines.
To provide network connectivity to hosts and virtual machines, you connect the physical NICs of the hosts to uplink ports on the standard switch. Virtual machines have network adapters (vNICs) that you connect to port groups on the standard switch..
