| Consolidation and Management | High Availability | |
| VMware vSphere 4 Essentials |
VMware vSphere 4 Essentials Plus |
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Data Recovery |
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High Availability |
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Update Manager |
Update Manager |
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vCenter Agent |
vCenter Agent |
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vCenter Server for Essentials |
vCenter Server for Essentials |
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VMFS Virtual SMP™ VMware ESXi or ESX |
VMFS Virtual SMP™ VMware ESXi or ESX |
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3 servers with up to 2 processors each |
3 servers with up to 2 processors each |
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VMware vSphere 4 for Small Businesses
Designed especially for small IT environments with fewer than 20 physical servers, the VMware vSphere 4 Essentials Editions 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 Edition 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 editions 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 4, 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 4 SMB solutions brief.
