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VMware vSphere Essentials & Essentials Plus

Designed for IT environments with fewer than 20 server workloads, the VMware® vSphere® Essentials and Essentials Plus Kits deliver enterprise-class IT management with cost-effective server consolidation and business continuity for small organizations—with minimal investment. Use vSphere Essentials Plus with vSphere Storage Appliance software to get business continuity without shared storage hardware.

Features Overview of vSphere Essentials

• Consolidate and optimize IT investments – Achieve consolidation ratios of 10:1 or higher, and improve hardware utilization from 5-15 percent to as much as 80 percent or more, without sacrificing application performance.
• Maximize application availability and protect information assets – Ensure always available 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 infrastructure.

VMware vSphere Essentials & Essentials Plus Datasheet