Compared with the previous version, VMware vSphere 5 supports four times more powerful virtual machines with up to 1 terabyte of memory and up to 32 virtual processors. These virtual machines will be able to produce over a million every second I / O operations that exceed the requirements of even the most demanding applications. In conjunction with the upgraded and simplified module High Availability, such machines will support the work of the most important business applications, providing them with high performance and availability.