- Distributed vCenter and SQL servers can be grouped as a pair of servers providing the single business application
- Group vCenter servers providing management of vSphere infrastructure by organizational unit
- Create groups of vCenter servers by physical location
- The tree-structure UI and dashboard view shows rolled up status of the health of the applications and servers within a group
- Detailed on-screen logging of switchover/failover status and progress
- Improved management screen layout, all related functions and configuration are more logically grouped together
- Simpler visualization and roll-up status of application and performance monitoring rules and events through collapsible display options for memory, disk, processor, etc.
- Simpler visualization of alerts, classified and grouped by alert type
- User customizations can be disabled for diagnostic and support purposes
vCenter Server Heartbeat is a Windows based system that has been specifically designed to provide high availability to server configurations in one product while not requiring any specialized hardware.