Community
Basic
Express
Standard
Enterprise
Cluster specification and services
Maximum number of hosts
3
5
16
16
255
Maximum bare capacity of cluster
120 TiB
400 TiB
1280 TiB
1280 TiB
6 PiB
Maximum available capacity of cluster
60 TiB
(2 replicas)
40 TiB
(3 replicas)
200 TiB
(2 replicas)
133 TiB
(3 replicas)
640 TiB
(2 replicas)
427 TiB
(3 replicas)
640 TiB
(2 replicas)
427 TiB
(3 replicas)
2 PiB
Commercial support
Block storage services
Heterogeneous cluster
Cluster online extend/shrink
Generic block storage services
Storage auto-tiering
All-flash storage
Storage policy (per datastore/volume)
Topology-aware data allocation
VM-location-aware data migration
Silent data corruption detection (block checksum)
Thin provisioning
Concurrent access of shared volume
Storage volume QoS settings
Tunable replication factor
2，3
2，3
2，3
2，3
2，3
Increase number of replicas
SCVM I/O redirection1
Adjustable rate of data recovery and migration2
Use RDMA protocol for inter-node data transmission
Virtualization platforms
ELF (Built-in virtualization platform)
VMware ESXi™
Citrix® XenServer®
Built-in VM services
Boost mode
VM lifecycle management
VM online setting
VNC console
VM HA
VM hot migration
VM cold migration
VM staged migration
VM import and export
VM CPU compatibility
VM CPU exclusive
VM Guest OS disk usage
VM group
VM template
VM template import and export
VM instant snapshot
VM instant/full clone
Resource-aware VM auto migration
Rule of placement group3
User-defined VM placement
Data storage policy
ISO management
Virtual volume import and export
VM/volume I/O throttling
VM Tools
VM list export
USB passthrough
SR-IOV
Networking
Virtual distributed switch
VLAN-based VM network
Create multiple types of networks on one VDS
Network traffic QoS
System network MTU modification
NIC MTU modification
NIC LLDP information
NIC physical link status
Everoute
Additional license requiredAdditional license requiredAdditional license requiredAdditional license requiredAdditional license required
Number of manageable hosts
3
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Maximum Number of Everoute Services
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Multiple Cluster Management
Maximum Number of Associated VDS
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Heterogeneous cluster support
Global security policy
Custom security policy
Security group
Export and import of custom security policies
Abnormal virtual machine quarantine
Automatic association of security policies with the entire life cycle of virtual machines
Declarative API
High availability of control plane
One-click hot upgrade
SMTX Backup & Recovery
Not supportedAdditional license requiredAdditional license requiredAdditional license requiredAdditional license required
Associated Cluster
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
License Unit
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
SMTX OS (ELF) Virtual Machine
NFS3/NFS4 Backup Repository
Customized Backup Policy
Full/Incremental Backup
Rebuild/Restore In Place
Backup File Compression
Backup Service Load Control
Backup Service High Availability
Declarative API
Operations and maintenance
Single cluster/site management
Multiple cluster/site management4
Visualized cluster topology and management
Visualized networks and management
Visualized server components and management
Server components status monitoring
Multi-language support
GUI-based installation and configuration
Monitoring & analysis of physical server/component performance/capacity/status
Monitoring & analysis of virtual resources performance/capacity/status
Monitoring & analysis of networks performance/status
Monitoring & analysis of cluster health status
Monitoring & analysis of software stack resources/health status
Host maintenance mode
Physical disk locator light
Hard disk anomaly detection & isolation
Customized alerts
SNMP support
Email notification
User-defined monitoring and analysis dashboard
Monitoring data export
Log collection
SMTX OS one-click software upgrade
Node role conversion
Non Active-Active Cluster to Active-Active Cluster conversion
Event auditing
VM resource optimization
Role-Based Access Control
API & CLI
RESTful API
API documentation
CLI
Snapshot Plan
Optional protected virtual machines
Optional execution policy and retention policy
Data protection - Async Replication
Not supportedSeparate license requiredSeparate license requiredSeparate license requiredSeparate license required
Multi-cluster replication and restore
Supports both one-to-many and many-to-many topology for cross-cluster replication
Supports both one-to-many and many-to-many topology for cross-cluster replication
Supports both one-to-many and many-to-many topology for cross-cluster replication
Supports both one-to-many and many-to-many topology for cross-cluster replication
Optional protected virtual machines
Optional execution policy and retention policy
WAN optimization
Compression
Compression
Compression
Compression
MetroX (Active-Active Clustering)
Not supportedNot supportedSeparate license requiredSeparate license requiredSeparate license required
Availability zone
Automated disaster recovery for VM/application services
VM HA across availability zones
VM HA across availability zones
VM HA across availability zones
Free tools (independently released)
SMTX Cluster Installer for SmartX Halo Appliance
SMTX Migration Tool: Supports VM migration from VMware to SMTX ELF (SMTX VM service platform)