At last VMware have finally announced their successor to VI3 - welcome to vSphere and what an impressive technology stack it sports.
The next release is aimed across the whole spectrum of organisations from SMB to Enterprise and makes the premise of cloud technology feasible to all at an affordable price.
VMware vSphere for Small Businesses delivers two core options dependent on your needs as a business:
- VMware vSphere Essentials
HyperVisor, Patch Management, Management Agent, Management Server
- VMware vSphere Essentials Plus
HyperVisor, Patch Management, Management Agent, Management Server, High Availability and Data Protection
Designed especially for small IT environments with fewer than 20 physical servers, the VMware vSphere Essentials Editions deliver enterprise-class capabilities in a cost-effective solution package for organizations that want optimize and protect their IT assets with minimal up-front investment.
vSphere Essentials enables server consolidation and centralized provisioning, monitoring and management to deliver immediate hardware and operational cost-savings. vSphere Essentials Plus adds in additional features for maintaining business continuity in the face of hardware failures and data loss.
Each edition is a solution bundle that includes everything required to virtualise and centrally manage many application workloads on three physical servers running vSphere.
VMware vSphere for Medium and Enterprise size businesses delivers four options dependent on your needs as a business:
- Standard
HyperVisor, Management Agent, High Availability and Thin Provisioning
- Advanced
HyperVisor, Management Agent, High Availability, Thin Provisioning, Live Migration, Continuous Availability, Network Security Zoning, Data Protection
- Enterprise
HyperVisor, Management Agent, High Availability, Thin Provisioning, Live Migration, Continuous Availability, Network Security Zoning, Data Protection, Dynamic Resource Allocation, Power Management, Storage Live Migration
- Enterprise Plus
HyperVisor, Management Agent, High Availability, Thin Provisioning, Live Migration, Continuous Availability, Network Security Zoning, Data Protection, Dynamic Resource Allocation, Power Management, Storage Live Migration, Third Party Multipathing, Distributed Switch, Host Configuration Controls.
The New Cloud Architecture - vSphere
So a lot to take in there, and there is more to be found here at VMware, if you find yourself in either Manchester or Frimley on either 28th or 30th of April why not register for our vSphere event to understand what it means to your business.