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Product Line Comparison

The enterprise workload engine

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vCenter Lifecycle Management Service


Simplifies the lifecycle management of
vCenter instances with a single click.
Reduces maintenance window making it ☑ ☑
easier to schedule updates sooner, allowing
more rapid access to new features.

VCF Operations: Continuous


Performance Optimization
With VCF Operations, assure workload
performance at minimal costs. Based on
operational and business intent, ☑
real-time predictive analytics and AI drive
actions to automatically balance workloads
and proactively avoid contention.

VCF Operations:Efficient Cost and


Capacity Management
Reduce cost and improve efficiency with
real-time, predictive capacity and cost
analytics, delivering optimal consolidation
and proactive planning. Using a real time, ☑
forward-looking capacity analytics engine,
predictive analytics and AI automatically
balance workloads to improve
performance based on operational and
business goals.

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VCF Operations: Integrated Compliance
Reduce risk and enforce IT regulatory
standards with VCF Operations integrated
compliance and automated drift
remediation. Ensure your environment’s ☑
adherence to common requirements with
six out-of-the-box compliance templates—
such as for PCI or HIPAA—or create your
own custom templates.

VCF Operations for Logs Manage


log data at scale with centralized
infrastructure log management, deep
operational visibility, and intelligent analytics
for troubleshooting and auditing across ☑
environments. Capabilities include interactive
logs analysis, Kubernetes log collection, alerts,
active directory integration, role-based access
control, scheduled dashboard reports, and
event forwarding.

VCF Operations Diagnostics (formerly


Skyline) Avoid issues before they occur.
Pinpoint potential problems across your
VMware environment and use VCF Operations ☑ ☑
remediation guidance to fix the issues that can
cause disruptive and costly IT downtime. Use
the VCF Operations Log Assist feature to
upload support log bundle files and diagnostic
reports to your VMware support cases.

VKS Standard Packages


Streamlines the deployment and management
of local and in-cluster platform services—like ☑
logging, monitoring, networking and storage
services—to easily configure and maintain a
production-ready Kubernetes environment.
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Storage Service
The Storage Service allows developers to
manage persistent disks for use with ☑
containers, Kubernetes and virtual machines.
Deploy existing block and file storage
infrastructure for containerized workloads

Network Services
The Network Service allows developers to
manage Virtual Routers and Load Balancers.
Leverage existing networking infrastructure ☑
using vSphere Distributed Switch’s (VDS)
centralized interface to configure, monitor and
administerswitching access for VMs and
Kubernetes workloads.

Container Registry Service


The Registry Service allows developers to
store, manage and secure Docker and OCI ☑
container images through Harbor as a
Supervisor Service.

VM Registry Service
The Registry Service allows developers to
store, manage and secure Docker and OCI ☑
container images through Harbor as a
Supervisor Service.
Network Load Balancing
Network load balancing for Supervisor
workloads including:
VM Service, vSphere Pods, and VKS ☑
clusters (and
containers).

VM Service
The VM service allows developers to create
virtual machines independently from ☑
Kubernetes without requiring access to
vSphere Client.

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Workload Availability Zones
Enhance Kubernetes workload HA with
availability zones. Provides resilience that ☑
spans across multiple clusters and
potentially larger geographical areas.
Customizable Base OS Images
Customize base OS images for fast,
consistent deployments.
For example, customize images to include
logging or monitoring tools, change OS ☑
parameters, adjust user configuration files,
add firewall rules, etc.

Independent vSphere Kubernetes Service


(VKS)
Easily upgrade to the latest Kubernetes ☑
releases independent of vSphere releases.
Local Consumption Interface (LCI)
Simplified self-service access to
infrastructure using LCI in the ☑
vSphere Supervisor.
Supervisor support on vSAN stretched
clusters
Deploy Supervisor on vSAN stretched ☑
cluster spanning two physical locations or
sites.

Autoscaling for Kubernetes Clusters


Easily scale down or scale up your ☑
Kubernetes clusters/nodes with autoscaling.

vSphere Lifecycle Manager


Manage infrastructure images to patch, update ☑ ☑
or upgrade VMware ESX clusters using a
desired state model.

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