vSphere 8 Enterprise Plus is generally targeted at large enterprises with complex infrastructures that require advanced resource management and scalability for small businesses, VMware offers the Essentials or Essentials Plus Kits, which are more cost effective solutions​.

• Network service:

Allow developers to manage virtual routers, load balancers and firewall rules.

• Storage service:

Enables developers to control persistent disks for use with virtual machines, Kubernetes containers and other systems.

Utilizing cluster level network aggregation, it offers straightforward and efficient centralized management for virtual machine templates, virtual appliances ISO images and scripts.

The complete set of vSphere features for converting data centers into a streamlined cloud operating environment that offers the newest levels of speed, security and ease of use are included in VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus.

Key features include:

• Distributed Resource Scheduler for dynamic resource allocation.

• Network Input output Control and Storage input output Control for managing input output resources.

• Use vMotion and Storage vMotion to move virtual machines right away without any downtime.

• Secure features like encrypted vMotion and secure boot.

Per core licensing with a minimum of 16 cores licensed per CPU per virtual machine licensing vSphere plus subscription capacity based licensing per CPU licensing that covers one CPU with up to 32 cores.