# Host Features

- Automated HVM cluster provisioning
- CEPH storage configuration for multi-node clusters
- CEPH summary, a high-level dashboard of CEPH components and status
- DRS, automatic rebalancing of clusters based on resource consumption
- Compatibility validation of network and storage devices at time of cluster provisioning
- Hypervisor console
- Configuration and deployment of OVS networks (VLANs)
- Cluster and individual host monitoring
- Add hosts to existing clusters
- Console support for cluster hosts
- Add, edit and remove networks and datastores from clusters
- Gracefully take hosts out of service with maintenance mode
- Migration of workloads across hosts
- Configurable automatic failover of running workloads when a host is lost
- Ability to add and provision to fibre channel storage resources or iSCSI storage resources via GFS2 filesystem
- Governance through VM Essentials RBAC
- Pass host-attached NVME, USB, and GPU hardware through to VMs running on the host
