Data Center Consolidation and Business Continuity – Consolidate data center hardware and enable business continuity through server virtualization. Reduce capital expenditures by increasing utilization of existing hardware. Increase productivity through central management of virtual infrastructure. Ensure business continuity by reducing or eliminating downtime of your workloads and infrastructure.

This kit includes 6 CPU licenses of vSphere Essentials Plus (for 3 servers with up to 2 processors each) and 1 license for vCenter Server Essentials.

The vSphere Essentials Plus Kit consists of the following:

vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi)
vCenter Server Essentials
vSphere Data Protection
vSphere High Availability (HA)
vSphere vMotion
Cross Switch vMotion
vSphere vShield Endpoint
vSphere Replication

This kit includes 6 CPU licenses of vSphere Essentials (for 3 servers with up to 2 processors each) and 1 license for vCenter Server Essentials.

The vSphere Essentials Kit consists of the following:

vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi)
vCenter Server Essentials
The vSphere Essentials Kit licenses are perpetual and do not have an end date. The support term includes updates and new releases of the selected product during the time frame selected.

Simplified Lifecycle Management
Simplify VMware software patching and firmware upgrades with the updated lifecycle manager and update planner. If you prefer to use restful APIs, you can use JSON to automate lifecycle management using vSphere 8.

Intrinsic Security
Secure infrastructure, data, and access with a comprehensive, built-in architecture and a simple, policy-driven model. vSphere 8 introduces remote attestation for sensitive workloads using vSphere Trust Authority. Plus, it secures access and account management using Identity federation with ADFS.

Performance and Resiliency for Application Acceleration
Host large workloads in the data center with a completely redesigned distributed resource scheduler (DRS) that takes a more workload-centric approach. The recent enhancements in vMotion logic provides non-disruptive operations, irrespective of the size of VMs, specifically for large and mission critical workloads. Get enhanced application performance on supported hardware with vSphere persistent memory, providing applications ultra-fast storage at a lower cost.

VMware vCenter Server Foundation provides powerful management tools for smaller environments (up to 4 vSphere hosts) looking to rapidly provision, monitors, and control virtual machines.

VMware vCenter Server Foundation edition includes the following capabilities:

Management service
Database server
Inventory service
VMware vSphere Clients
VMware vCenter APIs and .NET
vCenter Single Sign-On