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Leverage the power of virtualization by fully utilizing existing IT resources to deploy new applications, improve availability and ensure business continuity. Dramatically reduce capital and operating costs while increasing IT staff efficiency with VMware vSphere, the most trusted and reliable virtualization platform in the industry. VMware vSphere delivers Always On IT to small businesses, bringing the high availability, performance and reliability of the VMware platform together with cost-effective packages designed for small IT environments.

• Decrease capital and operational costs through server consolidation and energy efficiency


• Enhance IT staff productivity through simplifying management and automating of IT operations


• Deliver Always On IT, ensuring business continuity through high application availability, data protection, and disaster recovery

Designed especially for small IT environments with fewer than 20 physical servers, the Essentials and Essentials Plus editions of VMware vSphere 4 deliver enterprise-class capabilities in a cost-effective solution packages for organizations that want optimize and protect their IT assets with minimal up-front investment. By adopting vSphere Essentials, customers can more effectively utilize server, network and storage resources dynamically as a single pool or “internal cloud” to protect business-critical applications and data. The result is an Always On IT environment that is more cost-effective, resilient and responsive to business needs.

Key Components of vSphere Essentials Editions

• VMware ESX and VMware ESXi provide a robust, production-proven, high performance virtualization layer that allows multiple virtual machines to share the computing, networking and storage resources of a single physical server.


• VMware vCenter Server for Essentials provides rapid provisioning, centralized management and performance monitoring, with physical-to-virtual (P2V) machine conversion, wizard-based deployment and a host of other features.


• VMware vCenter Update Manager provides automated patch and update management for VMware ESX hosts, as well as for virtual machines running select
  versions of Windows and Linux.


• VMware High Availability (HA) provides hardware-independent failover for virtual machines on VMware ESX hosts without the cost or complexity of traditional solutions for physical systems.


• VMware Data Recovery provides simple, cost effective, agentless backup and recovery for virtual machines that optimizes backup storage usage and complements existing data protection solutions for backup and archival to tape.

High-Performance Server Virtualization

• Record-breaking performance for resource-intensive workloads


• Ability to configure virtual machines with up to 4 virtual CPUs each


• Advanced virtual machine memory management capabilities


• Support for 64-bit server hardware with up to 512GB of physical RAM

Integrated High Availability and Data Protection

• Hardware-independent virtual machine failover with VMware HA


• NIC teaming and HBA multipathing to protect against hardware failures


• Efficient, integrated backup with VMware Data Recovery


• Support for all major third-party backup solutions

Centralized Management Capabilities

• Rapid wizard-based provisioning and virtual machine templates


• Automated patch management with VMware vCenter Update Manager


• Operational automation with task scheduling and alerts


• Integrated physical-to-virtual machine conversion capabilities

Security and Control

• Integrated network security and firewall protection for virtual machines


• VMware VMsafe™ security APIs for third-party security products


• Role-based access control and integration with Microsoft Active Directory


• SSL encryption for secure remote access to VMware ESX and ESXi hosts

Broad Hardware and Software Interoperability

• Compatibility with the widest range of server hardware in the industry


• Certified integration with Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, HP, IBM, NEC, and Sun servers


• Certified support for SATA, NAS, iSCSI and Fibre Channel storage equipment


• Support for broadest range of 32- and 64-bit x86 server operating systems


• Ability to run any standard software application without modification

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