VMware vSphere Essentials

"Begin the Journey to Cloud Computing with Datacenter Virtualization"


Offer the highest levels of availability and responsiveness with vSphere, the most trusted virtualization platform for building cloud infrastructures. vSphere enables users to run business critical applications with confidence and respond faster to their business.

Run Business Critical Applications on the Most Trusted Virtual Infrastructure
Turn your datacenter into a secure private cloud without throwing away existing applications, hardware and know-how. Support any application workload by bridging on-demand to a public cloud from the VMware broad ecosystem of leading cloud service providers. This hybrid cloud lets you choose the most efficient infrastructure for any application—public on-demand pay-as-you-go clouds or your internal private cloud, both built on the most trusted virtualization platform. Gain visibility into pooled resources and the elasticity you need to react to changing business requirements, as you deliver IT as a Service (ITaaS) with policy-driven automation.

With vSphere and our virtualization and cloud management products, you can:
• Maximize efficiency and ensure service levels with capacity management
• Automate disaster recovery plans with disaster recovery management
• Ensure performance SLAs are met with performance management
• Get accurate costs for delivering IT services with cost reporting management

Reduce your capital and operating costs and increase control over IT infrastructures while preserving the flexibility to choose any OS, application and hardware with VMware vSphere.
• Shift your IT staff's energies toward creating transformative business solutions with built-in automation and resource elasticity
• Get more from your existing IT assets and reduce capital expenses of the datacenter by up to 60%
• Significantly lower power, cooling and real estate needs and cut your energy costs by up to 80%



Designed for small IT environments with fewer than 20 server workloads, VMware vSphere Essentials Kits deliver enterprise-class capabilities in small, cost-effective package. Essentials Kits enable you to virtualize and consolidate many application workloads onto three physical servers running vSphere and centrally manage them with VMware vCenter Server for Essentials.

VMware vSphere Essentials provides an all-in-one solution for small offices to consolidate and manage many application workloads while reducing hardware and operating costs with a low up-front investment.

VMware vSphere Essentials Plus adds application high availability, data protection and vMotion for a complete server consolidation and business continuity solution for small offices.