What is VMware vSphere Essentials Plus?
VMware vSphere Essentials Plus Kit provides an all-in-one solution for small businesses to virtualize their physical servers and reduce hardware costs while ensuring superior high application availability and data protection.
What is included in vSphere essentials?
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| Product Overview | Essentials Kit | Essentials Plus Kit |
|---|---|---|
| License entitlement | 3 servers with up to 2 processors each | 3 servers with up to 2 processors each |
| Features | vSphere Hypervisor | vSphere Hypervisor, vMotion, Cross Switch vMotion, High Availability, Data Protection, vShield Endpoint, vSphere Replication |
Is vMotion included in Essentials Plus?
vSphere Essentials Plus Kit adds features such as vSphere vMotion, vSphere HA and vSphere Data Protection™ to vSphere Essentials to enable always-on IT for the small environment.
Is vSAN part of vSphere?
vSAN is integrated with the VMware vSphere Hypervisor, so there’s no need to install additional software or deploy storage controller virtual appliances to every host in the cluster, as is often the case. Only vCenter Server is required to configure and manage a vSAN cluster.
What are the features of VMware vSphere Essentials Plus?
Both VMware vSphere Essentials and VMware vSphere Essentials Plus contain a number of key features VMware vSphere customers are used to such as: VMware vSphere Update Manager, for managing both ESXi and Virtual Machine updates. VMware vCenter Converter, an essential tool for converting physical machines to virtual machines, or VMs.
What are the vSphere Essentials for small businesses?
virtualization and VMware vSphere® ESXi™ hypervisor. VMware vSphere Essentials Kits are for small businesses and combine virtualization for up to three physical servers with centralized management using VMware vCenter Server® for Essentials™.
Is there a maximum number of hosts for vSphere Essentials?
Similar but not quite are the vSphere Acceleration Kits which components can be upgraded individually unlike the Essentials Kits. They offer the same features as the Enterprise editions of vSphere but each is locked to a maximum of 3 ESXi hosts (min. 2 processors) and 1 vCenter Standard Server.
Which is the best version of vSphere to use?
vSphere Main Editions 1 vSphere Standard – Provides the basic features for server consolidation. 2 vSphere Enterprise Plus – Provides the full range of vSphere features. 3 vSphere Essentials kit – The essentials kit is an all in one solution for small environments with up to 3 hosts (2 CPUs on each host).