This product includes vCenter Server essentials and ESXi for 3 Hosts (max. 2 processors each) and entitlement for 144 GB vRAM.

VMware vSphere 5 Essentials Plus Kit provides an all-in-one solution for small offices to virtualize three physical servers to reduce hardware costs while ensuring superior high application availability and data protection.

With the vSphere Essentials Plus kit, you can:

• Reduce capital and operating costs by over 50%
• Improve availability and uptime for business critical applications
• Cut the deployment time of new servers from weeks to hours

VMware vSphere Essentials Plus includes:

• VMware ESXi or VMware ESX hypervisor architecture (deployment-time choice, VMware recommends the ESXi hypervisor architecture)
• VMFS (Virtual Machine File System)
• 4-way Virtual SMP
• VMware vCenter Server Agent
• VMware vStorage APIs / VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB)
• VMware Update Manager
• VMware High Availability (HA)
• VMware Data Recovery
• VMware vCenter Server for Essentials
• VMware vMotion

Note:  Support is required to purchase. Server hosts must be managed by the included vCenter Server Essentials edition, which in turn cannot be used to manage other server hosts not included with this kit.