AECP Editions OverviewSpecifications
AECP Editions & Specifications
Capability
AECP Compute
Licensed by CPU Core
Standard Compute
Virtualization
AECP VDI Essential
Licensed by CPU Core
HCI Storage for VDI
AECP VDI Standard
Licensed by CPU Core
Standard HCI for VDI
Virtualization and Storage
AECP Essential
Licensed by CPU Core
HCI Core
Virtualization and Storage
AECP Standard
Licensed by CPU Core
Standard HCI
Virtualization, Storage and Kubernetes
AECP Advanced
Licensed by CPU Core
Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure
Powered by Full Stack HCI
Deployment Mode
Non-HCI only
HCI Only
HCI Only
HCI Only
HCI Only
HCI Only
Maximum Number of Hosts Per Cluster
255
64
255
255
255
255
Compute Services
Hypervisor Support
AVE Only
VMware ESXi only
AVE Only
AVE, VMware ESXi
AVE, VMware ESXi
AVE, VMware ESXi
HA, DRS
✓
—
✓
✓
✓
✓
Memory Overcommit
✓
—
✓
✓
✓
✓
vTPM
✓
—
✓
✓
✓
✓
vGPU and GPU Pass-through
✓
—
✓
✓
✓
✓
Kubernetes Service
—
—
—
—
✓
✓
Kubernetes on Bare Metal
—
—
—
—
Available for purchase
(Licensed by CPU Core)
Available for purchase
(Licensed by CPU Core)
Built-in Storage Services
Maximum Raw Capacity per Server Node
—
256 TB
256 TB
256 TB
256 TB
256 TB
Storage Protocol Support
—
NFS
—
NFS, iSCSI
NFS, iSCSI
NFS, iSCSI
File Storage Service
—
—
—
—
✓
✓
Erasure Coding
—
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Encryption at Rest
—
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
VM Pin in Performance Layer
—
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Availability Domains
—
Rack/Block/Node
Rack/Block/Node
Rack/Block/Node
Rack/Block/Node
Rack/Block/Node
External Storage Integration
VCFS-FC
✓
—
—
—
—
—
VCFS-iSCSI (TCP)
✓
—
—
—
—
—
Multiple Path I/O (MPIO)
✓
—
—
—
—
—
Thin Provisioning
✓
—
—
—
—
—
Space Reclamation (UNMAP)
✓
—
—
—
—
—
Data Protection
Backup and Recovery
—
—
—
✓
✓
✓
Replication (Async and Sync)
—
—
—
Available for purchase
(Licensed by General License Unit)
✓
✓
Active-Active
—
Available for purchase
(Licensed by CPU Core)
Available for purchase
(Licensed by CPU Core)
—
Available for purchase
(Licensed by CPU Core)
✓
Networking and Security
Micro-segmentation
Available for purchase
(Licensed by CPU Core)
—
Available for purchase
(Licensed by CPU Core)
—
Available for purchase
(Licensed by CPU Core)
✓
Load Balancing
Available for purchase
(Licensed by CPU Core)
—
—
—
Available for purchase
(Licensed by CPU Core)
✓
Virtual Private Cloud
Available for purchase
(Licensed by CPU Core)
—
—
—
—
Available for purchase
(Licensed by CPU Core)
Pod-VM Integrated Networking
✓
—
—
—
✓
✓
Management and Analytics
Single Management Console for All
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Multi-cluster Management
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Monitoring & Analysis of Cluster Health Status
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Network Observability
✓
—
✓
✓
✓
✓

Explore Feature Details

Find detailed capabilities for each functional area in the corresponding product feature pages.

HCI Core
Deployment modes, hypervisor and storage integration.
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Compute Services
Virtualization, availability and Kubernetes.
View Virtualization featuresView Kubernetes features
Storage Services
Built-in and external storage integration.
View Block Storage featuresView File Storage features
Data Protection
Backup and disaster recovery.
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Networking and Security
Virtual networking and security.
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Management and Analytics
Operations and observability.
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