What is VMware vSphere?

VMware vSphere, the industry-leading virtualization platform, empowers users to virtualize scale-up and scale-out applications with confidence, redefines availability, and simplifies the virtual data center. The result is a highly available, resilient, on-demand infrastructure that is the ideal foundation of any cloud environment. This dramatically reduces data center cost, increases system and application uptime, and drastically simplifies the way you operate your data center. vSphere is purpose-built for the next generation of applications and serves as the core foundational building block for the Software-Defined Data Center. vSphere simplifies IT by separating applications and operating systems (OSs) from the underlying hardware. Your existing applications see dedicated resources, but your servers can be managed as a pool of resources. The result is that your business runs on a simplified yet resilient IT environment.

Max 2 processors per host.

AT A GLANCE

VMware vSphere® Essentials Kit and Essentials Plus Kit deliver the industry-leading virtualization platform at an affordable price for IT environments that run 20 or fewer server workloads. With vSphere Essentials Plus Kit, a small business can leverage a comprehensive and cost-effective virtualization solution to protect its business, reduce its IT footprint, and save on IT costs.

SnS is required. VMware vSphere Essentials Plus includes vCenter Server Essentials and ESXi for 3 hosts, plus the following features: vCenter agents, Update Manager, Data Protection and High Availability. vSphere Essentials Plus is limited for use on up to 3 hosts  and on servers with up to two processors only.The server hosts must be managed by the vCenter Server Essentials edition that is provided with this bundle, and that same vCenter Server Essentials edition cannot be used to manage other server hosts not included with this edition.