VMware vSphere Essential Kit
VMware vSphere Essentials Kit
VMware vSphere Essentials Kit delivers the industry-leading virtualization platform for small businesses at an affordable price. Small businesses can virtualize their physical servers and centrally manage these servers, reducing hardware costs and increasing operating efficiency with a low upfront investment.
Key Features:
- All-in one solution for small offices (up to three hosts with up to two CPUs each)
- Server virtualization and consolidation with centralized management to reduce hardware and operating costs
- Simplify software upgrades, patching and firmware updates
- Includes vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) and vCenter Server Essentials
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
What’s included?
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.
Resources
- Essentials Kits Datasheet
- vSphere Licensing, Pricing and Packaging Whitepaper
System Requirements
Minimum Hardware Requirements:
- CPU
- At least 1 64-bit dual-core processor.
- Memory
- Min of 4GB of RAM. Recommended at least 8GB of RAM.
- Network
- 1/more Gigabit/faster Ethernet controllers.
- Storage
- Storage adequate to run host and virtual machines.
Recommendations for Enhanced Performance:
- RAM
- Requires more RAM than typical server. At least 8GB of RAM to take full advantage of ESXi features. ESXi must have sufficient RAM to run concurrent virtual machines.
- Disk Location
- Place all data your virtual machines use on physical disks allocated to specific machines. Performance is best when virtual machines are not placed on the disk containing ESXi boot image. Use disks large enough to hold images that all virtual machines use.
- Processors
- Faster processors improve ESXi performance. For certain workloads, larger caches improve ESXi performance.
- Hardware
- Use devices supported by ESXi 6.0 drivers.