VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Kit (v. 5) - license - 3 hosts

VMware vSphere is a complete and robust virtualization platform on the market today for building cloud infrastructures. vSphere 5 enables higher consolidation ratios with unequaled performance by providing groundbreaking memory management technology, expanded resource pooling capabilities with more granular storage and network I/O controls, and major enhancements to overall scalability.

Set storage quality-of-service priorities for each virtual machine to guarantee access to storage resources. Set network quality-of-service priorities per flow type for guaranteed access to network resources.

VMware vSphere Essentials Plus includes vCenter Server Essentials and ESXi for 3 hosts, plus the following features: vCenter agents, 8-way vSMP, Update Manager, Data Recovery and High Availability. vSphere Essentials Plus is limited for use on up to 3 hosts (192 GB total VRAM entitlement) and on servers with up to two processors only.

Leverage modern protocol interfaces between VMware and storage arrays for faster performance for vSphere operations such as Storage vMotion events and virtual machine provisioning. Speed and scale enhancements to vMotion deliver superior platform response and availability by migrating virtual machines faster and enabling more vMotion events in parallel.

vSphere 5 extends its availability and security capabilities with fast live migrations and the ability to respond in parallel to any business need or change. Application services enhancements deliver status details for high availability and tighter integration with an existing directory service.

Deeper diagnostic and health check capabilities further enhances application availability in virtual machines. Seamless user authentication at the vSphere host provides centralized user management. Easily assign privileges to users or groups plus roll out permission rules across hosts.

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 provides an all-in-one solution for small offices to virtualize three physical servers to reduce hardware costs while ensuring superior high application availability and data protection.

With the vSphere Essentials Plus kit, you can: reduce capital and operating costs, improve availability and uptime for business critical applications, cut the deployment time of new servers from weeks to hours, make better use of existing infrastructure, save time in managing infrastructure with vCenter central management, improve application availability with vMotion (no planned downtime).