Spec
AECP Essential
AECP Standard
AECP Advanced
AECP VDI Essential
HCI Core
(Virtualization and Storage)
Standard HCI
(Virtualization, Storage and Kubernetes)
Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure
Powered by Full Stack HCI
VDI Storage
Maximum Number of Hosts
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
64
Compute Services
Hypervisor Support
AVE, vSphere
AVE, vSphere
AVE, vSphere
vSphere
HA, DRS
✓
✓
✓
✓
Availability Domains
Rack/Block/Node
Rack/Block/Node
Rack/Block/Node
Rack/Block/Node
VM Centric Storage QoS
✓
✓
✓
✓
vGPU and GPU Pass-through
✓
✓
✓
✓
VM Pin in Performance Layer
✓
✓
✓
✓
Kubernetes Service
✓
✓
Kubernetes on Bare Metal
✓
Storage Services
Maximum Raw Capacity per Server Node
80 TB
256 TB
256 TB
256 TB
Storage Protocol Support
NFS, iSCSI
NFS, iSCSI
NFS, iSCSI
NFS
File Storage
✓
✓
Erasure Coding
✓
✓
✓
✓
Data Protection
Backup and Recovery
Available for purchase
Available for purchase
✓
Async Replication
Available for purchase
Available for purchase
✓
Active-Active
Available for purchase
Available for purchase
✓
Available for purchase
Networking and Security
Micro-segmentation
Available for purchase
✓
Load Balancing
Available for purchase
✓
Virtual Private Cloud
Available for purchase
Pod-VM Integrated Networking
✓
✓
Management and Analytics
Single Management Console for All
✓
✓
✓
✓
Multi-cluster Management
✓
✓
✓
✓
Monitoring & Analysis of Cluster Health Status
✓
✓
✓
✓
Network Observability
✓
✓
✓