VMware vSphere
Essentials Kit and Essentials Plus Kit
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How Are vSphere Essentials Kit and Essentials VMware vSphere vStorage APIs provide integration with
Plus Kit Used? supported third-party data protection.
Maximize application availability and protect information VMware vCenter Update Manager automates tracking,
assets Achieve always-available IT with live migration for patching and updating for vSphere hosts and for applications
virtual machines and high availability for applications in and OSs running in VMware virtual machines.
virtual-machine clusters. Protect your data with the reliability VMware vCenter Converter enables IT administrators to
of vSphere and integrated backup, recovery and failover rapidly convert physical servers and third-party virtual
features. machines to VMware virtual machines.
Consolidate and optimize IT investments Achieve VMware vCenter Operations Manager Foundation enables
consolidation ratios of 10:1 or higher and improve hardware you to leverage comprehensive views into health, risk and
utilization from 515 percent to 80 percent or more without efficiency scores of your vSphere environment infrastructure.
sacrificing application performance. Quickly drill down to see whats causing current workload
Simplify management and enhance productivity conditions, pinpoint potential problems in the future and
Provision new applications in minutes instead of days or identify areas with inefficient use of resources.
weeks, monitor virtual-machine performance and automate VMware VMsafe APIs enable the use of security products
patch and update management. that work in conjunction with the virtualization layer to provide
Streamline software development Safely test complex higher levels of security to virtual machines than are possible
multitier configurations in a secure, isolated sandbox even with physical servers.
environment while enabling test and development teams to Hardware compatibility is possible with the broadest range
share server, network and storage infrastructure. of 32- and 64-bit servers and OSs, storage and networking
equipment and enterprise management tools.
Key Features and Components VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Kit includes the following
VMware vSphere Essentials Kit and Essentials Plus Kit include business-continuity features and components for always-
the following key features and components: available IT:
VMware ESXi hypervisor architecture provides a robust, vSphere High Availability provides cost-effective, automated
production-proven, high-performance virtualization layer restart within minutes for all applications in the event of
that enables multiple virtual machines to share hardware hardware or OS failures.
resources with performance that can match or exceed vSphere vMotion enables live migration of virtual machines
native throughput. across servers with no disruption to users or service loss,
VMware vCenter Server for Essentials provides centralized eliminating the need to schedule application downtime for
management and performance monitoring for all virtual server maintenance.
machines and vSphere hosts with built-in physical-to-virtual vSphere Data Protection provides simple, cost-effective
(P2V) machine conversion and rapid provisioning, using backup and recovery for virtual machines. It is a newly
virtual-machine templates. architected solution based on EMC Avamar technology that
VMware vSphere VMFS enables virtual machines to access enables agentless backups with built-in deduplication.
shared storage devices (Fibre Channel, iSCSI, etc.) and is a vShield Endpoint provides agentless antivirus and
key enabling technology for other components such as antimalware protection to secure your virtual machines.
VMware vSphere Storage vMotion. vSphere Replication provides low-cost replication for your
VMware vSphere Thin Provisioning provides dynamic virtual machine and serves as the foundation for leveraging a
allocation of shared storage capacity, enabling IT organizations cloud-based disaster-recovery solution from a VMware cloud
to implement a tiered storage strategy while reducing storage service provider.
spending by up to 50 percent.
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VMware vSphere
Business Data
Protection
vSphere Data
Protection,
vShield Endpoint
and vSphere
Replication
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