Overview
VMware and IBM share a large intersection of joint customers. Together, IBM and VMware offer simplified deployment and lowered operational costs, allowing customers to implement a flexible and scalable computing environment that helps drive their business objectives. VMware's alliance with IBM cuts across all IBM's key businesses: software, hardware and services.
VMware and IBM Software are working together to simplify deployment of IBM solutions and IBM Middleware on VMware virtual infrastructure. Benchmarks, deployment guides, reference configurations and customer references are in various stages of completion across the IBM Software brands. Read on to learn more how you can gain the benefits of combining industry-leading VMware virtualization with the critical functionality of IBM Software solutions.
IBM Software CTO Anant Jhingran speaks about IBM and virtualization 
Products
VMware vSphere and the entire VMware product portfolio are available across the IBM System x and BladeCenter portfolio of x86 servers. IBM and IBM business partners provide VMware virtualization solutions to customers of all sizes, spanning servers, storage, management, software and services.
VMware vSphere Standard
VMware vSphere Standard provides an entry solution for basic consolidation of applications to slash hardware costs while accelerating application deployment. VMware vSphere Standard builds on the performance and reliability of the market leading hypervisor to deliver a managed virtualization environment for test labs, preproduction servers, and remote offices.
VMware vSphere Advanced
VMware vSphere Advanced provides a strategic consolidation solution that protects all applications against planned and unplanned downtime to provide superior application availability. VMware vSphere Advanced combines the performance and reliability of the market leading hypervisor with critical features for maintaining uptime of applications.
VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus
VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus includes the full range of vSphere features for transforming datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud computing environments, providing the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services. Combining VMware’s industry leading virtualization technology and experience with scalable, resilient systems from IBM, VMware vSphere delivers uncompromising control, with greater efficiency, while preserving customer choice.
One instance of VMware vCenter Server, sold separately, is required for VMware vSphere deployments.
