vSphere™ for Small Business

Leverage the power of virtualisation by fully utilising 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 virtualisation 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

Features

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 organisations that want optimise and protect their IT assets with minimal up-front investment.

By adopting vSphere Essentials, customers can more effectively utilise 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 virtualisation 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, centralised 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 optimises backup storage usage and complements existing data protection solutions for backup and archival to tape.

Introducing VMware vSphere Essentials

The rich capabilities of VMware vSphere are packaged into two editions designed exclusively for small office deployments starting at just $166 per processor. vSphere Essentials enables server consolidation and centralised provisioning, monitoring and management to deliver immediate hardware and operational cost-savings. vSphere Essentials Plus adds in additional features for maintaining business continuity in the face of hardware failures and data loss.

Each edition is a solution bundle that includes everything required to virtualise and centrally manage many application workloads on three physical servers running vSphere.

Designed especially for small IT environments with fewer than 20 physical servers, the VMware vSphere Essentials Editions deliver enterprise-class capabilities in a cost-effective solution package for organisations that want optimise and protect their IT assets with minimal up-front investment.

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 high application availability and data protection for a complete server consolidation and business continuity solution for the small office IT environment.

Both editions are all-inclusive packages that enable you to virtualise and consolidate many application workloads onto three physical servers running vSphere and centrally manage them with VMware vCenter Server for Essentials.