VMware vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus provide an all-in-one solution for small offices to virtualize their physical servers to reduce hardware costs while ensuring superior high application availability and data protection.

	Essentials Kit	Essentials Plus Kit
Overview	Server consolidation and centralized management	Server consolidation and business continuity
Product Components
Centralized Management   vCenter Standard: Provides large scale management of VMware vSphere deployments for rapid provisioning, monitoring, orchestration, and control of virtual machines. vCenter Foundation: Provides powerful management tools for smaller environments (up to 3 vSphere hosts) looking to rapidly provision, monitor, and control virtual machines. vCenter for Essentials: Provides the same features as vCenter Foundation, integrated with the Essentials and Essentials Plus kits.	vCenter for Essentials	vCenter for Essentials
Included Entitlement	3 servers with up to 2 processors each	3 servers with up to 2 processors each
vRAM Entitlement   Amount of vRAM that each license adds to the available pool. vRAM is the amount of virtual memory configured to a virtual machine. (See vSphere 5.0 Pricing and Packaging White Paper) for more information about vRAM.	32GB (192GB total)   144 GB is the maximum vRAM entitlement for Essentials and Essentials Plus kits. No additional vRAM entitlement can be added to Essentials or Essentials Plus kits. If more vRAM is required then an upgrade to standard or higher acceleration kit is required.	32GB (192GB total)   144 GB is the maximum vRAM entitlement for Essentials and Essentials Plus kits. No addition vRAM entitlement can be added to Essentials or Essentials Plus kits. If more vRAM is required then an upgrade to standard or higher acceleration kit is required.
vCPU Entitlement   The number of virtual CPUs that may be allocated to each VM when using virtual symmetric multiprocessing (vSMP)	8-way	8-way
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware   Qualified purchases of VMware vSphere entitle to free use of enterprise Linux (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware) as guest OS. This offer includes free subscription to patches & updates of the OS and ability to run unlimited number of virtual machines per vSphere license. For more information about Terms and Conditions use the link at the bottom of this page.
Product Features
Thin Provisioning   Reduce storage needs by utilizing dynamic storage that expands to meet the requirements of the virtual machine with no performance degradation.
Update Manager   Reduce time spent on routine remediation by automating the tracking, patching and updating of your vSphere hosts, as well as the VM's applications and operating systems.
vStorage APIs for Data Protection   Achieve scalable backup without disrupting applications or users by leveraging supported 3rd party backup software that leverages these APIs. Through this integration supported 3rd party backup software can perform centralized VM backups without the disruption and overhead of running backup tasks from inside each virtual machine.
Data Recovery   Protect your data through fast agent-less backups to disk, with de-duplication to minimize use of backup disk space.
High Availability   Minimize downtime with automated restart of your VMs following physical machine failure.
vMotion   Eliminate application downtime from planned server maintenance by migrating running VMs between hosts.
	With 1yr Subscription Only $560.00	1yr Basic Support 3yr Basic Support 1yr Production Support 3yr Production Support Only $5,619.00

VMware vSphere Essentials Kits

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

Find the Kit that Fits your Needs, Whatever Your Size and Budget

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

Features

VMware vSphere, the most widely deployed virtual datacenter operating system, offers a number of services that transform x86 datacenters into a shared dynamic utility platform through infrastructure, application, and management services.

For a comprehensive list of features download the VMware vSphere SMB solutions brief.