VMware vSphere 5 helps to transform data centers into simplified cloud infrastructures and enables the next generation of flexible and reliable IT services. VMware vSphere 5 is ideal for organizations of all sizes. VMware products from HP include offerings that provide:

• Scalability, performance, redundancy and disaster recovery which allows you to run business critical applications with confidence
• Management suites including policy management, resource scheduling and private cloud management to help your organization respond to business faster
• Security suites which helps organizations protect against network intrusion and antivirus, thereby enabling you to deploy cloud infrastructures with ease

VMware vSphere Hypervisor is based on VMware ESXi, an enterprise-class hypervisor that offers near-native performance through a bare metal architecture with features like memory de-duplication to increase consolidation ratios and a cluster file system for managing VM files on shared storage. VMware ESXi is a critical foundation for a dynamic and flexible virtual infrastructure. HP delivers VMware ESXi as a free download with HP Systems Insight Manager Providers to help manage critical components of your ProLiant server running VMware ESXi.

HP delivers and supports a wide range of VMware products for ProLiant Server and CloudSystem Matrix platform. All VMware products from HP include a 1 or 3 year embedded 9x5 support with service uplifts to 1/3/4/5 year 24x7 unlimited technical software support and update services. All VMware products from HP also include a web based training on VMware vSphere from HP Education Services.

Virtualization solutions from HP help to take your deployments to the next level:

• HP High Availability Virtualization Solution, which includes VMware Essentials Plus along with HP Virtual SAN Appliance, helps companies to reduce costs, achieve improved business continuity and simplify server and storage management.
• HP Insight Control provides an integrated, essential management solution for managing your storage, servers, and other infrastructure devices across heterogeneous environments -- and it manages both your physical and virtual infrastructures. For more information, please visit http://www.hp.com/go/insightcontrol

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• VMware vSphere 5 products from HP provide comprehensive hardware, software and services solution for your virtualized environment. VMware products from HP cater to the complete spectrum of small, mid-sized and enterprise businesses
• All VMware products from HP include a web based training on VMware vSphere from HP Education Services
• HP delivers VMware ESXi with active hardware management and consolidated lifecycle management, tested and certified on ProLiant platforms to provide management simplicity to virtual environments. VMware ESXi is supported on a broad range of DL, ML, and BladeSystem ProLiant servers
• HP is a pioneer in the industry for electronic delivery of VMware products providing faster, easier, efficient and streamlined software delivery, thereby lowering environmental impact
• Integrated server virtualization bundles with HP Insight Control and VMware vSphere to simplify your server virtualization purchase and deployment

HP's award winning support includes one-stop shopping for all your hardware, VMware and HP software support. HP Support is also available and recommended for supported guest and host operating systems.

• Take advantage of the HP CloudSystem solutions along with the scalability, performance, high availability and disaster recovery solutions from VMware to help you run business critical applications on your cloud infrastructure
• Deploy a secure virtual data centers and cloud environments with security solutions to protect against network intrusion and viruses

• Increase the performance and efficiency of their IT infrastructure while lowering costs and increases server utilization and simplify management. Take advantage of Matrix platforms for VMware software solutions and the additional software management tools available from HP
• Deploy shared services infrastructure in their datacenter enabling them to instantly adjust to dynamic business demands

Mid-sized customers who:

• Require virtualization technology to reduce IT costs, mitigate risks and accelerate growth. Are looking for cost reductions in critical resources and IT assets as capital budgets are decreasing while energy and real estate costs are increasing
• Want assurances in place that keeps the business running, such as disaster recovery plan, backup, high availability and data protection
• Require simplified operations, flexible infrastructure and centralized management

VMware vSphere Essentials/Essentials Plus will benefit SMB Customers who are looking to:

• Virtualize with minimal up-front investment for optimizing and protecting IT assets
• Consolidate servers with all-in-one cost-effective solution package
• Maintain business continuity in face of hardware failures and data loss

HP has tightly integrated VMware ESXi to maintain a consistent and reliable ProLiant management environment.

• Installation of ESXi can be done through HP's embedded server configuration and installation process
• Updates to the ESXi can be made using the same tool used to update ProLiant system firmware
• Consolidating ESXi and ProLiant firmware updates within the same tool simplifies time consuming lifecycle management