What is the difference between VMware Essentials and Essentials Plus?
vSphere Essentials Kit provides server consolidation to help you get the most out of your hardware and reduce hardware costs. vSphere Essentials Plus Kit provides business continuity with a smaller IT footprint, which reduces overall hardware costs.
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 the difference between VMware essentials and standard?
vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus are kits designed with the SMB space in mind and are getting started with virtualization. These kits also include vCenter Server unlike when purchasing vSphere Standard, Enterprise, etc. There is no support for vMotion or vSphere High Availability with vSphere Essentials.
Does VMware essentials plus include vMotion?
“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.
Does VMware essentials plus include storage vMotion?
Essentials Plus *technically* doesn’t include Storage vMotion, however it does include “combined vMotion + Storage vMotion” in version 5.1 and later.
Does vSphere Essentials Plus include vSAN?
VMware HCI Kit Essentials (per 6 CPUs) includes vSphere Essentials plus and vSAN Standard . VMware HCI Kit Standard (per CPU) includes vSphere Standard and vSAN Standard .
Does vSphere Essentials Plus include Drs?
Within the VMware Essentials kit you only have ESXi server. Within the VMware Essentials Plus kit you have additional features such as vSphere replication, vMotion and High Availability. *Note* This does not include DRS or Storage VMotion!
Does vSphere license expire?
Remember, the vCenter license that comes with VMware vSphere, the vCenter Server evaluation license, lasts 60 days, as do the other VMware evaluation licenses. This means your vCenter server license expires on day 61 if you forgot to enter the vCenter license key at the time of deployment.
Can vCenter standard manage vSphere essentials?
VMware vCenter Server Editions vCenter Server for Essentials supports up to 3 ESXi hosts that have vSphere Essentials and Essential Plus licenses. vCenter Server Foundation manages up to 4 ESXi hosts that have vSphere Standard, vSphere Enterprise Plus, and VMware vCloud Suite licenses.
How much does vMotion cost?
If you’re a smaller organization or prefer VMware technology, then the vSphere Essentials kit at $577 is quite attractive. However, if you need maximum application availability and business continuity, it is a significant price jump to $5,781 for Essential Plus for the vMotion and HA features.
What is the difference between VMware vSphere 6 essentials and Essentials Plus?
VMware vSphere 6 Essentials and VMware vSphere 6 Essentials Plus packages must be considered separately. They have been specifically designed for small businesses and can virtualize up to three physical servers. Central management of these servers is only possible via vCenter Server for Essentials.
How many CPU licenses are included in the vSphere Essentials Plus kit?
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.
Do I need VMware vCenter Server to manage VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus?
Note: VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus with Operations Management is no longer available as of February 1, 2019. Whichever VMware vSphere edition you choose, you are going to need VMware vCenter Server to manage it. There is one edition of VMware vCenter Server when it comes to these versions of vSphere, and that is vCenter Server Standard Edition.
What is the difference between vSphere Enterprise Plus and vSphere platinum?
VMware vSphere Platinum builds on top of VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus. With vSphere Platinum, you receive all of the vSphere Enterprise Plus features plus VMware App Defense. VMware App Defense is all about gaining control of security events in your infrastructure, and protecting your organization from security threats.