VMware vSphere

What Are VMware vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus?
VMware vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus are integrated virtualization kits designed to meet the needs of small and growing organizations. By adopting VMware vSphere Essentials or Essentials Plus, customers can use server, network and storage resources dynamically and more effectively, as a single pool or
"private cloud" to protect business-critical applications and data. The result is an always-on IT environment that is more costeffective, resilient and responsive to changing business needs.

How Are vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus Used?
• Eliminate downtime and protect data—Achieve always-on IT with live migration for virtual machines and high availability for applications in virtual machine clusters.
• Consolidate and optimize IT investments—Achieve consolidation ratios of 10:1 or higher, and improve hardware utilization from 5 percent to 15 percent to as much as 80 percent or more, without sacrificing application performance.
• Maximize application availability and protect information assets—Ensure always-on continuity of IT operations with the rock-solid reliability of vSphere and integrated backup, recovery and failover features.
• Simplify management and enhance productivity—Provision new applications in minutes instead of days or weeks, monitor virtual machine performance, and automate patch and update management.
• Streamline software development—Safely test complex multitier configurations in a secure, isolated sandbox environment while allowing test and development teams to share server, network and storage