VMware vSphere™ Essentials Kit, provides an all-in-one solution for small offices to consolidate and manage many application workloads while reducing hardware and operating costs. It’s the most cost effective solution for small environments.

VMware vSphere™ Essentials Plus Kit adds high application availability and data protection for a complete server consolidation and business continuity solution organizations with fewer than 20 application workloads.

VMware vSphere™ Essentials Plus Kit adds high application availability and data protection for a complete server consolidation and business continuity solution organizations with fewer than 20 application workloads.

VMware vSphere™ Standard Acceleration Kit is the server consolidation and business continuity solution for the growing Small and Midsize Business. vSphere Standard Acceleration Kit includes vCenter Standard for unlimited scalability and advanced management capabilities, and 8 licenses of vSphere Standard Edition to deliver business continuity while eliminating planned downtime from server maintenance. Keep your critical applications running with VMware Data Recovery and High Availability, to automatically restart your virtual machines with the latest snapshots when server failures occur, and use vMotion, to live migrate applications and perform server hardware maintenance without disrupting business operations.

VMware vSphere™ Standard Acceleration Kit is the server consolidation and business continuity solution for the growing Small and Midsize Business. vSphere Standard Acceleration Kit includes vCenter Standard for unlimited scalability and advanced management capabilities, and 8 licenses of vSphere Standard Edition to deliver business continuity while eliminating planned downtime from server maintenance. Keep your critical applications running with VMware Data Recovery and High Availability, to automatically restart your virtual machines with the latest snapshots when server failures occur, and use vMotion, to live migrate applications and perform server hardware maintenance without disrupting business operations.

VMware vSphere™ Enterprise Acceleration Kit provides advanced business continuity capabilities together with scalable central management for minimizing downtime, protecting data, and automating resource management. vSphere Enterprise Acceleration Kit includes 6 licenses of vSphere Enterprise Edition and vCenter Server Standard to support future growth and option to add advanced management capabilities. It is available at 20% off the list price of components.

VMware vSphere™ Enterprise Acceleration Kit provides advanced business continuity capabilities together with scalable central management for minimizing downtime, protecting data, and automating resource management. vSphere Enterprise Acceleration Kit includes 6 licenses of vSphere Enterprise Edition and vCenter Server Standard to support future growth and option to add advanced management capabilities. It is available at 20% off the list price of components.

VMware vSphere™ Enterprise Plus Acceleration Kit includes the full range of vSphere™ features for transforming datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud computing environments to provide the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services for their businesses. It includes vCenter Server Standard for unlimited scalability and option to add advanced management capabilities, as well as 6 licenses of vSphere Enterprise Plus edition for policy-based prioritization of compute, network, and storage to help ensure application service levels.

VMware vSphere™ Enterprise Plus Acceleration Kit includes the full range of vSphere™ features for transforming datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud computing environments to provide the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services for their businesses. It includes vCenter Server Standard for unlimited scalability and option to add advanced management capabilities, as well as 6 licenses of vSphere Enterprise Plus edition for policy-based prioritization of compute, network, and storage to help ensure application service levels.

Your recommended vSphere kit delivers proven enterprise-class virtualization technology to help you confidently get the most out of your IT, and manage your IT centrally using vCenter Server. The unequaled industry-leading performance of VMware vSphere™, enables higher consolidation ratios, application services enhancements (including tighter integration with active directory services), and advanced patching. In addition, the vSphere hardware compatibility list (HCL) expands the platform to support more operating systems, devices, applications, and service providers than any other virtualization platform, and includes support for third-party serial port concentrators (for enhanced management), as well as the latest multicore x86 processors.

If you’d like to provide high availability and no planned downtime for your environment, you should also consider Essentials Plus, which provides VMware’s High Availability, Data Recovery, and vMotion technologies. High Availability helps you to minimize downtime from server and operating system failures by automatically restarting virtual machines from the latest snapshot without human intervention. Data Recovery is your first line of defense for data protection. Integrated with vCenter Server, it enables centralized and efficient management of backup jobs and also includes data de-duplication to save on disk storage for your backups. Lastly, vMotion technology enables you to perform hardware maintenance without scheduling downtime and disrupting business operations.

Your recommended vSphere kit delivers proven enterprise-class virtualization technology to help you confidently get the most out of your IT, and manage your IT centrally using vCenter Server. And the unequaled industry-leading performance of VMware vSphere™, enables higher consolidation ratios, application services enhancements (including tighter integration with active directory services), and advanced patching. In addition, the vSphere hardware compatibility list (HCL) expands the platform to support more operating systems, devices, applications, and service providers than any other virtualization platform, and includes support for third-party serial port concentrators (for enhanced management), as well as the latest multicore x86 processors.

Your kit also includes VMware’s High Availability, Data Recovery, and vMotion technologies. High Availability helps you to minimize downtime from server and operating system failures by automatically restarting virtual machines from the latest snapshot without human intervention. Data Recovery is your first line of defense for data protection. Integrated with vCenter Server, it enables centralized and efficient management of backup jobs and also includes data de-duplication to save on disk storage for your backups. Lastly, vMotion technology enables you to perform hardware maintenance without scheduling downtime and disrupting business operations.

If you'd like to get unlimited scalability and are interested in using VMware's advanced management products, you should also consider the vSphere Standard Acceleration Kit, which includes vCenter Server Standard. vCenter Server Standard the industry's most advanced virtualization management platform, and gives you the option to add advanced infrastructure and application management capabilities, such as intelligent capacity optimization, site recovery management, multi-tier application performance assurance and more.

Your recommended vSphere kit delivers proven enterprise-class virtualization technology to help you confidently get the most out of your IT, and manage your IT centrally using vCenter Server. And the unequalled industry-leading performance of VMware vSphere™, enables higher consolidation ratios, application services enhancements (including tighter integration with active directory services), and advanced patching. In addition, the vSphere hardware compatibility list (HCL) expands the platform to support more operating systems, devices, applications, and service providers than any other virtualization platform, and includes support for third-party serial port concentrators (for enhanced management), as well as the latest multicore x86 processors.

For unlimited scalability options your kit includes vCenter Server Standard. vCenter Server Standard is the industry’s most advanced virtualization management platform, and gives you the option to add advanced infrastructure and application management capabilities, such as intelligent capacity optimization, site recovery management, multi-tier application performance assurance and more.

If you'd like to enable automated power and resource management of your datacenter, you should also consider the Enterprise Acceleration Kit (with vSphere Enterprise), which provide VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and Distributed Power Management (DPM) features. VMware DRS continuously balances computing capacity in resource pools to deliver the performance, scalability and availability not possible with physical infrastructure. This means improved service levels for all applications as DRS will ensure that each virtual machine has access to appropriate resources at any point in time. VMware DPM continuously optimizes power consumption in the datacenter. When virtual machines in a DRS cluster need fewer resources, such as during nights and weekends, DPM consolidates workloads onto fewer servers and powers off the rest to reduce power consumption. When virtual machine resource requirements increase (such as when users log into applications in the morning), DPM brings powered-down hosts back online to ensure service levels are met.

Your recommended vSphere kit delivers proven enterprise-class virtualization technology to help you confidently get the most out of your IT, and manage your IT centrally using vCenter Server. And the unequaled industry-leading performance of VMware Sphere™, enables higher consolidation ratios, application services enhancements (including tighter integration with active directory services), and advanced patching. In addition, the vSphere hardware compatibility list (HCL) expands the platform to support more operating systems, devices, applications, and service providers than any other virtualization platform, and includes support for third-party serial port concentrators (for enhanced management), as well as the latest multicore x86 processors.

Your kit also includes VMware’s High Availability, Data Recovery, and vMotion technologies. High Availability helps you to minimize downtime from server and operating system failures by automatically restarting virtual machines from the latest snapshot without human intervention. Data Recovery is your first line of defense for data protection. Integrated with vCenter Server, it enables centralized and efficient management of backup jobs and also includes data de-duplication to save on disk storage for your backups. Lastly, vMotion technology enables you to perform hardware maintenance without scheduling downtime and disrupting business operations.

To provide additional protection, your vSphere kit also includes VMware Fault Tolerance, based on our vLockstep technology. Fault Tolerance provides zero downtime, zero data loss continuous availability for your applications, without the cost and complexity of traditional hardware or software clustering solutions.

To help you efficiently manage power consumption and computing resources, your kit also includes VMware’s Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and Distributed Power Management (DPM) features. VMware DRS continuously balances computing capacity in resource pools to deliver the performance, scalability and availability not possible with physical infrastructure. This means improved service levels for all applications as DRS will ensure that each virtual machine has access to appropriate resources at any point in time. VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM) continuously optimizes power consumption in the datacenter. When virtual machines in a DRS cluster need fewer resources, such as during nights and weekends, DPM consolidates workloads onto fewer servers and powers off the rest to reduce power consumption. When virtual machine resource requirements increase (such as when users log into applications in the morning), DPM brings powered-down hosts back online to ensure service levels are met.

If you're interested in ensuring application service levels with the help of policy-based automation, and simplified deployment and compliance management, you should consider the vSphere Enterprise Plus Acceleration Kit. vSphere Enterprise Plus Acceleration Kit helps you to ensure application service levels with policy-based automation of compute, storage, and network resources. To simplify management, it delivers centralized network configuration and monitoring, even as your virtual machines move between hosts. In addition, Host Profiles and Auto Deploy features simplify host deployment and compliance using configuration templates.

Your recommended vSphere kit delivers proven enterprise-class virtualization technology to help you confidently get the most out of your IT, and manage your IT centrally using vCenter Server. And the unequaled industry-leading performance of VMware Sphere™, enables higher consolidation ratios, application services enhancements (including tighter integration with active directory services), and advanced patching. In addition, the vSphere hardware compatibility list (HCL) expands the platform to support more operating systems, devices, applications, and service providers than any other virtualization platform, and includes support for third-party serial port concentrators (for enhanced management), as well as the latest multicore x86 processors.

Your kit also includes VMware vSphere’s advanced features for policy-based management of compute, network, and storage resources, as well as features to simplify provisioning, management, and compliance.

Policy-based automation features include:
Distributed Resource Scheduler, which monitors workloads and dynamically moves virtual machines to server hosts that have compute capacity, so your mission critical VMs get all the processing power they need.

Network I/O Control, which enables you to set polices on which virtual machines and network traffic types have priority, so you can ensure that mission critical applications get the bandwidth they need when network congestion occurs.

Storage I/O control, which enables you to identify which virtual machines should get priority access to shared storage, so that storage I/O performance for these priority virtual machines stay within service levels even when there is resource contention.

Storage DRS and Profile-Driven Storage - these features work in conjunction to help administrators get the most efficient use out of existing storage while also enabling more SLA settings to be put in place. Storage DRS first enables the creation of groups of storage to help reduce management of individual storage assets. Those storage groups, known as datastore clusters, can then be used to efficiently place and balance storage for virtual machines. Profile-driven storage can then be used to place labels or tiers around those storage groups that can better define what the capabilities of that storage resource are and help to make sure resource use is aligned with business need.

To simplify management, Host Profiles allows you to create a configuration template to quickly and easily bring additional hosts online. Over time, you can compare hosts to the approved configuration template and automatically make changes to maintain compliance.

Additional Features to simplify provisioning, management and compliance include:
Auto Deploy. This feature enables faster and more efficient deployment and updating of vSphere hosts. Working in conjunction with Host Profiles, Auto Deploy brings a new operational model for how users can deploy more vSphere hosts by coordinating and automating previous manual or scripted tasks during deployment. In addition, vSphere host images can be updated in a central location for faster updating of vSphere hosts over time.

And lastly, Distributed Switch for simplified setup of virtual machine networking for your entire datacenter as well as the ability to integrate with existing 3rd party switches like the Nexus 1000V.

Consider turning your servers into shared storage and take full advantage of the benefits of virtualization with the VMware vSphere Storage Appliance and vSphere Essentials Plus.

vSphere Storage Appliance is a revolutionary software that delivers shared storage capabilities without the cost and complexity. It’s installed with a few mouse clicks, and managed with vCenter Server, perfect for any small or midsized business. Keep your IT simple while using the high availability and automation features of vSphere.

If your shared storage hardware is near capacity and you don't have plans to purchase additional shared storage capacity, consider turning your servers into shared storage to expand your shared storage capacity. vSphere Storage Appliance can work seamlessly with your SAN with Storage vMotion to move storage without service disruption.

vSphere Storage Appliance is a revolutionary software that delivers shared storage capabilities without the cost and complexity. It's installed with a few mouse clicks, and managed with vCenter Server, perfect for any small or midsized business. Keep your IT simple while using the high availability and automation features of vSphere.

To take full advantage of the benefits VMware virtualization delivers, consider investing in shared storage hardware for your environment. For example, with shared storage, VMware’s High Availability technology can protect you from a server hardware failure by restarting your VM on another server, and fetch the latest recovery point from your shared storage system.

If you are not interested in shared storage hardware but would still like to get the benefits of vSphere’s advanced capabilities for some of your workloads, consider the vSphere Storage Appliance, revolutionary software that delivers shared storage capabilities without the cost and complexity. It’s installed with a few mouse clicks, and managed with vCenter Server, perfect for any small or midsized business. Keep your IT simple while using the high availability and automation features of vSphere.

Did you know that VMware technology provides a fundamentally better way to manage storage resources for your virtual infrastructure? This gives your organization the ability to:

• Increase application uptime – with Storage vMotion, migrate your data with no interruption to end users
• Improve storage resource utilization and flexibility
• Leverage and complement your existing storage infrastructure