How to activate:
- Go to this website here.
- Click on "Download Now"
- Log into your Vmware account or create an existing one.
- Go to Manage -> License
- Enter the key.
Standard Edition features:
Best suited for hybrid environments with per-VM storage policies. Includes:
- Storage policy-based management
- Virtual distributed switch
- Cloud native storage (CNS) control plane
Advanced Edition features:
Includes all the features of Standard, plus:
- Storage policy-based management
- Virtual distributed switch
- Cloud native storage (CNS) control plane
- All-flash space efficiency features
- Deduplication and compression
- VMware Aria Operations within vCenter
Enterprise Edition features:
- Storage policy-based management
- Virtual distributed switch
- Cloud native storage (CNS) control plane
- All-flash space efficiency features
- Deduplication and compression
- VMware Aria Operations within vCenter
- Software-defined, data-at-rest encryption
- Stretched clusters
- VMware HCI Mesh
- Data persistence platform for modern stateful services
Enterprise Plus Edition features:
- Storage policy-based management
- Virtual distributed switch
- Cloud native storage (CNS) control plane
- All-flash space efficiency features
- Deduplication and compression
- VMware Aria Operations within vCenter
- Software-defined, data-at-rest encryption
- Stretched clusters
- VMware HCI Mesh
- Data persistence platform for modern stateful services
- vRealize Operations 8 Advanced
Vmware vSAN 8 For Tanzu features:
- vSphere Distributed Switch Compatibility
- Granular Control
- Hyper-Converged Storage Solution
- Workload Management Configuration Monitoring
- VM Service Support for all Linux Images
- Web-Console Support for VM Service VMs
- Support for Thick Provisioning of PVs in CNS using SPBM policies on VMFS Datastore
