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VMware Infrastructure 3

VMware Product
VMware Infrastructure
VMware Infrastructure Foundation for 2 processors
*SnS is required. Includes ESX Server 3i or ESX Server, VirtualCenter Agent, VMFS, Virtual SMP, Update Manager, and Consolidated Backup
Electronic Delivery of Licenses - Click here for more information
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List Price: $995.00
Our Price: $893.00
VMware Infrastructure Standard for 2 processors
*SnS is required. Includes ESXi or ESX, VirtualCenter Agent, Virtual SMP, VMFS, Update Manager, Consolidated Backup, High Availability
Electronic Delivery of Licenses - Click here for more information
#VI-STD-C
List Price: $2,995.00
Our Price: $2,687.00
VMware Infrastructure Enterprise for 2 processors
*SnS is required. Includes ESXi or ESX, VirtualCenter Agent, Virtual SMP, VMFS, Update Manager, Consolidated Backup, High Availability, VMotion/Storage VMotion, and DRS.
Electronic Delivery of Licenses - Click here for more information
#VI-ENT-C
List Price: $5,750.00
Our Price: $5,158.00

More VMware options and pricing below, click here

Transform IT Infrastructure with Enterprise-Class Virtualization

Start creating a self-optimizing IT infrastructure today with the most widely deployed virtual infrastructure suite. VMware Infrastructure 3, the InfoWorld 2007 Technology of the Year, virtualizes servers, storage and networks, to transform IT infrastructure into an automated, always-on computer "utility plant." More than 100,000 companies of all sizes have been able to slash the costs of IT infrastructure while streamlining the management of IT environments, and delivering better services levels to the business.

Experience the Industry’s First Infrastructure Virtualization Suite

VMware Infrastructure 3 is a feature-rich suite that delivers the production-proven efficiency, availability, and dynamic management needed to create a responsive data center.

VMware Infrastructure Chart

 

To learn more about this feature-rich suite, click on the product names below
(The VMware Infrastructure 3 suite includes those products with a red checkmark next to it.)

 

Minimize Your Total Cost of Infrastructure Ownership

  • Increase hardware utilization and reduce hardware requirements with server consolidation ratios commonly exceeding ten virtual machines per physical processor.
  • Reduce required datacenter square footage, rack space, power, cooling, cabling, storage and network components by reducing the sheer number of physical machines.

Streamline IT Infrastructure Management

  • Streamline the execution of IT management processes such as provisioning, capacity management, availability management, continuity management and service level management.
  • Eliminate cumbersome software installations and configurations with virtual appliances.
  • Decrease IT labor costs and refocus IT teams on value added, strategic tasks.

Provide Mainframe Class Availability and Reliability

  • Improve application availability and business continuity independent of hardware and operating systems.
  • Eliminate planned downtime for server and storage maintenance with live migration of virtual machines across physical servers and storage arrays .
  • Improve Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective in case of an entire site outage

VMware Infrastructure DiagramVMware Infrastructure delivers responsive IT—dynamic, efficient and available. Eliminating many of the constraints of traditional hardware, VMware Infrastructure allows companies to:

  • Implement production server consolidation and containment. Contain server sprawl by running software applications in virtual machines on fewer, highly scalable, reliable enterprise-class servers. Customers of VMware Infrastructure have been able to consolidate 10 or more virtual machines per physical processor, drastically increasing server utilization and containing server sprawl.
  • Provide advanced business continuity protection at lower cost. Deliver high availability for critical applications with cost-effective virtualization-based solutions. With VMware Infrastructure, customers can implement a standardized platform that allows many production virtual machines to be recovered in the event of hardware failure, without investing in costly redundant hardware.
  • Streamline software test and development. Consolidate disparate development, testing and staging environments involving multiple operating systems and multi-tiered applications.
  • Secure and manage enterprise desktops. Secure enterprise desktops of geographically dispersed workforce by providing a standard corporate desktop image in a virtual machine. At the same time, provide standardized enterprise desktop environments hosted in virtual machines accessed through thin clients or PCs.
  • Simplify infrastructure provisioning. Reduce the time for provisioning new infrastructure to minutes with sophisticated automation capabilities. Virtual appliances combine simple deployment of software with the benefits of pre-configured devices. Centralize control and responsibility for hardware resources while giving business units and application owners complete control over how resources are utilized.
  • Re-host legacy applications. Migrate legacy operating systems and software applications to virtual machines running on new hardware for better reliability.

What are the Benefits of VMware Infrastructure?

VMware Infrastructure uses virtualization technology to deliver transformative capital and operating cost savings as well as increased operational efficiency, flexibility and IT service levels.

VMware Infrastructure delivers measurable savings in both capital and operating costs:

  • Increases hardware utilization and reduces hardware requirements with server consolidation ratios commonly exceeding ten virtual machines per physical processor.
  • Reduces the cost of rack space and power proportionate to the consolidation ratio achieved.
  • Decreases labor cost by simplifying and automating labor and resource intensive IT operations across disparate hardware, operating system and software application environments.

VMware Infrastructure improves responsiveness, serviceability, availability and flexibility of IT infrastructure:

  • Enables broad-based, cost-effective application availability and business continuity, independent of hardware and operating systems.
  • Enables continuous uptime and non-disruptive maintenance of IT environments with live migration of entire running systems.
  • Eliminates the need for cumbersome software installation and configuration with virtual appliances.
  • Accelerates application development and deployment lifecycles.
  • Improves responsiveness to business needs with instant provisioning and dynamic optimization of application environments.
  • Allows legacy systems to co-exist with new environments.

How Does VMware Infrastructure Work?

VMware Infrastructure virtualizes and aggregates industry standard servers and their attached network and storage into unified resource pools. Complete environments, including operating systems and applications, are encapsulated in virtual machines that are independent from the hardware. A set of virtualization-based distributed infrastructure services for virtual machines bring breakthrough levels of flexibility, serviceability and efficiency to IT environments:

  • Central management and monitoring of virtual machines automate and simplify provisioning.
  • Distributed resource optimization dynamically and intelligently allocates the available resources among virtual machines, resulting in significantly higher hardware utilization and better alignment of IT resources with business priorities.
  • Easy-to-use high-availability provides better service levels to applications at lower cost than static, physical infrastructure.
  • Live migration capabilities allow maintenance of underlying server and storage hardware without disruption to application users.
  • Centralized patch management for physical host servers and guest operating systems keeps the infrastructure secure and compliant.

VMware Infrastructure is not tied to any operating system, giving customers a bias-free choice of operating system and software applications. VMware Infrastructure scales to support IT environments of any size.

VMware VirtualCenter provides a central point of control for managing, monitoring, provisioning and migrating virtual machines

VMware VirtualCenter provides a central point of control for managing, monitoring, provisioning and migrating virtual machines

What’s Included in VMware Infrastructure?

VMware ESX:

VMware ESX is the foundation for the dynamic, self-optimizing IT infrastructure. VMware ESX is a robust, production proven virtualization layer that abstracts processor, memory, storage and networking resources into multiple virtual machines. VMware ESX increases hardware utilization and dramatically decreases capital and operating cost by sharing hardware resources across a large number of virtual machines. With advanced resource management, high availability and security features; VMware ESX improves service levels even to the most resource-intensive applications. VMware ESX is now also available as VMware ESXi, offering all the same functionality but with a thin 32 MB footprint that provides unparalleled security and reliability. Additionally, integration as server firmware makes deployment fast and easy. VMware ESX virtualizes server storage and networking, allowing multiple applications to run in virtual machines on the same physical server.

VMware VMFS:

VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) is a high-performance cluster file system that allows multiple installations of VMware ESX to access the same virtual machine storage concurrently. VMFS enables the virtualization-based distributed infrastructure services delivered by VMware VirtualCenter, VMware VMotion™ technology, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware High Availability (HA).

VMware Virtual SMP™ technology:

VMware Virtual Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) technology enhances virtual machine performance by enabling a single virtual machine to use multiple physical processors simultaneously. Virtual SMP allows for virtualization of the most processor and resource intensive enterprise applications and databases.

VMware VirtualCenter:

VMware VirtualCenter delivers centralized management, operational automation, resource optimization and high availability to IT environments. These capabilities equip IT environments with unprecedented levels of serviceability, efficiency and reliability. VMware VirtualCenter exposes a rich set of programmatic Web service interfaces that enable integration with third-party system management products, as well as customized development. VMware VirtualCenter provides a central point of control for managing, monitoring, provisioning and migrating virtual machines.

VMware DRS:

VMware DRS aligns available resources with pre-defined business priorities while streamlining labor and resource intensive operations. VMware DRS now also includes Distributed Power Management (DPM), which balances workloads to reduce power consumption in the datacenter.

VMware VMotion:

VMware VMotion technology allows the live migration of virtual machines from one physical server to another for non-disruptive maintenance of IT environments.

VMware Storage VMotion:

VMware Storage VMotion allows the live migration of virtual machine disks from one shared storage location to another with no disruption or downtime to application users.

VMware HA:

VMware HA enables cost-effective application availability, independent of hardware and operating systems.

VMware® Update Manager:

VMware Update Manager manages patches/updates for physical VMware ESX as well as guest operating systems, enforcing compliance and securing IT infrastructure.

VMware® Consolidated Backup:

VMware Consolidated Backup provides an easy-to-use, centralized backup facility for virtual machines. It enables virtual machine contents to be backed up from a centralized Microsoft® Windows® 2003 proxy server, rather than directly from VMware ESX.

How Can I Purchase VMware Infrastructure?

VMware Infrastructure is available in the following editions:

Products: ESX Server 3i2 VMware Infrastructure Foundation VMware Infrastructure Standard VMware Infrastructure Enterprise
Physical Features
Overview: Single server partitioning (Previously Starter) Virtualization for Small Business or Branch office High Availability Infrastructure Virtualization Suite for Any Workload Enterprise-class Infrastructure Virtualization Suite for the Dynamic Data Center
ESX Server 3 or ESX Server 3i
  • VMFS
  • Virtual SMP
Yes - Included Yes - Included Yes - Included Yes - Included
VirtualCenter Agent   Yes - Included Yes - Included Yes - Included
Consolidated Backup1   Yes - Included Yes - Included Yes - Included
Update Manager1   Yes - Included Yes - Included Yes - Included
VMware HA1     Yes - Included Yes - Included
VMotion1       Yes - Included
Storage VMotion1       Yes - Included
VMware DRS1       Yes - Included
VirtualCenter Server:
  • Available as a separately licensed product.
  • Licensed on per-server basis separate from VMware Infrastructure 3 editions.

Notes:
1 - These products require VirtualCenter Management Server.
2 - VMware ESXi cannot be managed with VirtualCenter Server when purchased as a stand-alone product. Managing VMware ESXi with VirtualCenter Server requires purchase of VMware Infrastructure 3 Foundation, Standard, or Enterprise.

VMware Documentation
Download the VMware Infrastructure Product Brochure (PDF).

Pricing Notes:

  • Support and Subscription is mandatory for all VMware products except VMware Workstation, VirtualCenter for VMware Server, and VMware Server.
  • SLS (Support & Limited Subscription) is priced at 16% and 20% of list price for Gold and Platinum Support, respectively. Under SLS, customers get full technical support, new minor product releases and bug fixes on the major product release train at the time of purchase. Major upgrades are not included under SLS. (example VI3 to VI4)
  • SnS (Support & Subscription) is priced at 21% and 25% of list price for Gold and Platinum Support, respectively (Pricing varies for Starter Edition)
  • All upgrade SKUs must be purchased with a standard gold or platinum SLS (Support & Limited Subscription) or SnS (Support and Subscription) based on the list price of the upgraded product - for pricing and more details on this required purchase, please contact us.
  • Support times shown are for North & South American customers only - Gold Support response time is 4 hours for Severity One incidents, but resolution time could vary.
VMware Product
VMware Infrastructure
VMware Infrastructure Foundation for 2 processors
*SnS is required. Includes ESX Server 3i or ESX Server, VirtualCenter Agent, VMFS, Virtual SMP, Update Manager, and Consolidated Backup
Electronic Delivery of Licenses - Click here for more information
#VI-FND-C
List Price: $995.00
Our Price: $893.00
VMware Infrastructure Standard for 2 processors
*SnS is required. Includes ESXi or ESX, VirtualCenter Agent, Virtual SMP, VMFS, Update Manager, Consolidated Backup, High Availability
Electronic Delivery of Licenses - Click here for more information
#VI-STD-C
List Price: $2,995.00
Our Price: $2,687.00
VMware Infrastructure Enterprise for 2 processors
*SnS is required. Includes ESXi or ESX, VirtualCenter Agent, Virtual SMP, VMFS, Update Manager, Consolidated Backup, High Availability, VMotion/Storage VMotion, and DRS.
Electronic Delivery of Licenses - Click here for more information
#VI-ENT-C
List Price: $5,750.00
Our Price: $5,158.00
VMware Infrastructure 3 Upgrades
VMware Infrastructure Foundation to Standard for 2 processors
- Original FAC w/ active SnS and a completed SDA required.
#VI-FND-STD-UG-C
List Price: $2,495.00
Our Price: $2,238.00
VMware Infrastructure Foundation to Enterprise for 2 processors
- Original FAC w/ active SnS and a completed SDA required.
#VI-FND-ENT-UG-C
List Price: $5,500.00
Our Price: $4,934.00
VMware Infrastructure Standard to Enterprise (DRS, VMotion, Storage VMotion) for 2 processors
- Original FAC w/ active SnS. Includes VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler, VMotion and Storage VMotion. Original Standard Edition Flex Code required
#VI-STD-ENT-UG-C
List Price: $3,500.00
Our Price: $3,140.00
VMware Infrastructure 3 Starter Support/Subscriptions
VMware Infrastructure Foundation for 2 Processors Gold Support, Subscription, 1 Years
- Phone Support, 6am to 6pm PT, Monday - Friday
#VI-FND-G-SSS-C
Our Price: $545.00
VMware Infrastructure Starter Gold Support, Subscription, 2 Years
- Phone Support, 6am to 6pm PT, Monday - Friday
#VI-FND-G-SSS-2YR-C
Our Price: $1,013.70
VMware Infrastructure Starter Gold Support, Subscription, 3 Years
- Phone Support, 6am to 6pm PT, Monday - Friday
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Our Price: $1,389.75
VMware Infrastructure Starter Platinum Support, Subscription, 1 Year
- 24 Hour Phone Support, 7 days a week
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Our Price: $645.00
VMware Infrastructure Starter Platinum Support, Subscription, 2 Years
- 24 Hour Phone Support, 7 days a week
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Our Price: $1,199.70
VMware Infrastructure Starter Platinum Support, Subscription, 3 Years
- 24 Hour Phone Support, 7 days a week
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Our Price: $1,644.75
VMware Infrastructure 3 Standard Support/Subscriptions
VMware Infrastructure Standard Gold Support, Subscription, 1 Year
- Phone Support, 6am to 6pm PT, Monday - Friday
#VI-STD-G-SSS-C
Our Price: $629.00
VMware Infrastructure Standard Gold Support, Subscription, 2 Years
- Phone Support, 6am to 6pm PT, Monday - Friday
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Our Price: $1,169.94
VMware Infrastructure Standard Gold Support, Subscription, 3 Years
- Phone Support, 6am to 6pm PT, Monday - Friday
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Our Price: $1,603.95
VMware Infrastructure Standard Platinum Support, Subscription, 1 Year
- 24 Hour Phone Support, 7 days a week
#VI-STD-P-SSS-C
Our Price: $749.00
VMware Infrastructure Standard Platinum Support, Subscription, 2 Years
- 24 Hour Phone Support, 7 days a week
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Our Price: $1,393.00
VMware Infrastructure Standard Platinum Support, Subscription, 3 Years
- 24 Hour Phone Support, 7 days a week
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Our Price: $1,909.95
VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise Support/Subscriptions
VMware Infrastructure Enterprise Gold Support, Subscription, 1 Year
- Phone Support, 6am to 6pm PT, Monday - Friday
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Our Price: $1,208.00
VMware Infrastructure Enterprise Gold Support, Subscription, 2 Years
- Phone Support, 6am to 6pm PT, Monday - Friday
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Our Price: $2,246.88
VMware Infrastructure Enterprise Gold Support, Subscription, 3 Years
- Phone Support, 6am to 6pm PT, Monday - Friday
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Our Price: $3,080.40
VMware Infrastructure Enterprise Platinum Support, Subscription, 1 Year
- 24 Hour Phone Support, 7 days a week
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Our Price: $1,438.00
VMware Infrastructure Enterprise Platinum Support, Subscription, 2 Years
- 24 Hour Phone Support, 7 days a week
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Our Price: $2,674.68
VMware Infrastructure Enterprise Platinum Support, Subscription, 3 Years
- 24 Hour Phone Support, 7 days a week
#VI-ENT-P-SSS-3YR-C
Our Price: $3,666.90
VMware Infrastructure 3 Components - (Support/Subscriptions available on individual component pages linked below)
VMware VMotion with Storage VMotion for 2 Processors - Learn More #VI-VMOT-C
List Price: $3,495.00
Our Price: $3,135.00
VMware VirtualCenter Management Server 2 for VMware Infrastructure - Learn More
- SnS is required. Priced per VirtualCenter application instance
#VI-VCMS-C
List Price: $4,995.00
Our Price: $4,481.00
VMware HA 2 for 2 processors - Learn More
-SnS is required.
#VI-HA-C
List Price: $2,495.00
Our Price: $2,238.00
VMware DRS 2 for 2 processors - Learn More
-SnS is required. Available for VI Foundation, Standard or Enterprise but not ESX Server 3i. VMotion is Required for DRS.
#VI-DRS-C
List Price: $1,995.00
Our Price: $1,790.00

 

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