vSphere Essentials Plus 96 Core Pack VMware vSphere® Essentials Plus deliver the industry-leading virtualization platform at an affordable price for IT environments that run 20 or fewer server workloads. Comprehensive and cost-effective virtualization solution With vSphere Essentials Plus, a small business can leverage a comprehensive and cost-effective virtualization solution to protect its business, reduce its IT footprint, and save on IT costs.____________________ Simplify management and enhance productivity Provision new applications in minutes instead of days or weeks, monitor virtual-machine performance and automate patch and update management. Key benefits Provide business continuity and always-available IT Reduce IT footprint and simplify management Save on IT hardware costs Improve service levels and application quality Strengthen security and data protection Key features and components VMware vSphere Essentials Plus includes the following business-continuity features and components for always-available IT:____________________ vSphere High Availability_____ Provides cost-effective, automated restart within minutes for all applications in the event of hardware or OS failures. vSphere vMotion_____ Enables live migration of virtual machines across servers with no disruption to users or service loss, eliminating the need to schedule application downtime for server maintenance. vShield Endpoint_____ Provides agentless antivirus and antimalware protection to secure your virtual machines vSphere Replication_____ Provides low-cost replication for your virtual machine and serves as the foundation for leveraging a cloud-based disaster-recovery solution from a VMware cloud service provider Maximize application availability and protect information assets vSphere Essentials Plus provides business continuity with a smaller IT footprint, which reduces overall hardware costs. ____________________ Achieve always-available IT Achieve always-available IT with live migration for virtual machines and high availability for applications in virtual-machine clusters. Protect your data with the reliability of vSphere and integrated backup, recovery and failover features. Consolidate and optimize IT investments Achieve consolidation ratios of 10:1 or higher and improve hardware utilization from 5–15 percent to 80 percent or more without sacrificing application performance.____________________ 10:1 or higher_____ Achieve consolidation ratios of 10:1 or higher 5% to 80% or more_____ Improve hardware utilization from 5–15 percent to 80 percent or more