Overview:
Virtualization technology simplifies IT so that companies
can more effectively utilize their storage, network,
and computing resources to control costs and respond
faster. The virtual infrastructure approach to IT management
creates virtual services out of the physical IT infrastructure,
enabling administrators to allocate these resources
quickly to the highest priority applications and the
business needs that require them the most.
With virtualization, hardware management is completely
separated from software management, and hardware equipment
can be treated as a single pool of processing, storage,
and networking power to be reallocated on the fly to
various software services. In a virtual infrastructure,
users see resources as if they were dedicated to them
– while administrators gain the ability to efficiently
manage and optimize resources to serve the needs of
the business.
VMware equips SMBs with technology solutions that
allow them to cost effectively optimize the use of their
existing IT assets and resources as well as protect
the systems, data, and applications that run the business,
ensuring Always On IT. With analysts predicting the
adoption of virtualization among SMBs to double in the
next 24 months, these benefits are making this compelling
technology a mainstream mandate for SMBs.
Benefits
Slash capital costs through consolidating
servers and containing additional hardware spend. VMware
virtualization delivers improved utilization of their
servers, resulting in fewer resources to manage, power,
store, and buy – enabling SMBs to increase utilization
rates for x86 servers from 5-15 percent up to 60-80
percent.
Enhance staff productivity. VMware
vSphere solutions are easy to deploy, use, and manage.
They provide IT professionals with the freedom to be
released from menial tasks, enabling them to take a
more strategic role in the enterprise.
Improve business continuity. VMware
solutions offer complete data protection, truly continuous
application availability and automated disaster recovery
across physical sites. VMware virtualization helps SMBs
protect critical data and applications that keep the
business running with zero-downtime hardware maintenance,
eliminating the need for maintenance windows.
Improve business responsiveness
through improved efficiency, flexibility, and responsiveness.
Managing a virtual infrastructure allows IT professionals
to quickly connect and manage resources to meet ever-changing
business needs. VMware virtualization can result in
faster provisioning of new applications in minutes,
not weeks, and can accelerate change request response
times from hours or days to just minutes.
Improve application quality and deployment.
With VMware virtualization, SMBs can test more applications
by optimizing pre-production staging environments, resulting
in less downtime for the applications that run and drive
the business.
Strengthen security. VMware virtualization
enables automated patch management of server hosts and
virtual machines and an integrated firewall that maintains
security policies across the mobile, flexible environment
and decreases operational costs of managing them.
Scalable Solutions:
As the global leader in virtualization, VMware provides
a complete range of robust, reliable and cost-effective
solutions, from free virtualization tools to start experiencing
the benefits of virtualization today, to comprehensive
platforms that can be deployed as building blocks in
a flexible and configurable way to scale as the business
grows.
Always On IT Solutions for Small IT Environments
Designed especially for small IT environments with
fewer than 20 physical servers, VMware vSphere Essentials
Editions combine the high availability, performance
and reliability of our enterprise class solutions in
a package ideal for smaller IT environments and a price
starting at less than $1,000 USD for a complete solution
that includes central management.
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VMware vSphere
Essentials provides an all-in-one solution
for small offices to consolidate and manage many
application workloads while reducing hardware and
operating costs with a low up-front investment.
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VMware vSphere
Essentials Plus adds high application
availability and data protection for a complete
server consolidation and business continuity solution
for the small office IT environment.
Both editions are all-inclusive packages that enable
you to virtualize and consolidate many application workloads
onto three physical servers running vSphere and centrally
manage them with vCenter Server for Essentials.
Scalable Always On IT Solutions for Midsize Businesses
VMware vSphere Editions:
vSphere is available for midsize and larger
businesses in four main offerings targeted for various
deployment scenarios. Each edition is licensed based
on the number of processors on the physical server hosts
that you want to virtualize and scales easily by adding
more licenses to your environment.
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VMware vSphere™ Standard provides an
entry solution for basic consolidation of applications
to slash hardware costs while accelerating application
deployment.
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VMware vSphere™ Advanced provides a
strategic consolidation solution that protects all
applications against planned and unplanned downtime
to provide superior application availability and
data protection.
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VMware vSphere Enterprise provides
a strategic platform for minimizing downtime, protecting
applications and data, and automating resource management.
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VMware vSphere™ Enterprise Plus includes
the full range of vSphere™ features for transforming
datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud computing
environments that can provide the next generation
of flexible, reliable IT services to their businesses.
Management Servers:
VMware vCenter Server is the central management
tool for configuring, provisioning and managing distributed
virtual IT environments. Purchased separately,
it is required for managing VMware vSphere server hosts
and enabling many of the features.
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VMware vCenter Server Standard enables
SMBs to scale up their virtual infrastructure to
achieve the highest levels of efficiency, automation,
simplicity, and security, with centralized management
for organizing, monitoring, and configuring the
entire IT environment through a single interface,
resulting in lower operating costs.
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VMware vCenter Foundation provides
users all the benefits of vCenter Server, but is
designed to serve the needs of a smaller IT environment
with the ability to manage three or fewer physical
server hosts running vSphere.
VMware vSphere™ Acceleration Kits for Midsize
Businesses
VMware vSphere™ Acceleration Kits are solution bundles
designed for midsized customers that are new to virtualization.
These Acceleration Kits combine a VMware vSphere™ edition
together with VMware vCenter Server and are often offered
at promotional discounts for significant savings.
Virtual Desktop Solutions
The deployment of hosted virtual desktops is rapidly
growing in organizations worldwide, including in SMBs.
This adoption is driven by the need to provide corporate
end users flexible access to their personalized desktops
and applications 24x7 and to enable IT to provide a
cost effective way of managing the desktop infrastructure
while improving desktop security and compliance. Hosted
virtual desktops provide end users the ability to securely
access their personalized desktops including their applications
and data anywhere, anytime using multiple devices.
- VMware View™
is built on the industry leading virtualization
platform and provides rich, personalized virtual
desktops to SMB users by delivering data and applications
to any device with all the benefits of centralized
enterprise desktop management. VMware View
reduces the total cost of desktop ownership by significantly
minimizing the desktop and application management
and operations costs. This solution lets the IT
team securely provision, manage and update virtual
desktops from a centrally located server, which
improves security and compliance while giving end
users a single view of all their applications and
data in a familiar, personalized environment on
any device at any location.
- VMware
Workstation is the gold standard virtualization
software for desktops, enabling users to run multiple
operating systems on a single PC. Users have the
ability to run and switch between different computing
environments rapidly, set multi-tier configurations
and networks and easily create multiple snapshots
of virtual machines.
- VMware Fusion
lets users seamlessly run Windows applications and
devices on any Intel-based Mac. Built from the ground
up for the Mac, VMware Fusion lets users run all
windows applications on the Mac platform.
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Virtualization for Small & Medium Businesses