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VMware vSphere

The Best Platform for Enabling the Journey to Cloud Computing

VMware vSphere is the next evolutionary step in IT computing; enabling customers to bring the power of cloud computing to their IT infrastructures. Building on the power of VMware® Infrastructure, VMware vSphere dramatically reduces capital and operating costs, and increases control over IT infrastructures while preserving the flexibility to choose any OS, application and hardware.

Build on a proven virtualization platform to provide the foundation for internal and external clouds, using federation and standards to bridge cloud infrastructures—creating a secure private cloud. Organizations of all sizes can achieve the full benefits of cloud computing, delivering the highest levels of application service agreements with the lowest total cost per application workload.

Available in several different editions, VMware vSphere delivers targeted benefits to small business and mid-size and enterprise business customers.

Bring the Power of Cloud Computing to Your Datacenter

Transform your IT infrastructure into a private cloud—a collection of internal clouds federated on-demand to external clouds—delivering IT infrastructure as an easily accessible service. VMware vSphere delivers uncompromised control over all IT resources with the highest efficiency and choice in the industry. Find out why VMware is the leader in virtualization technology.

Reduce Costs and Maximize IT Efficiency

Dramatically reduce capital and operational expenses, while minimizing any potential lost revenue associated with downtime, outages and failures. VMware vSphere is proven to comprehensively virtualize server, storage, and networking resources, reducing capital and operational expenses per application by more than 50 percent.

Organizations can achieve consolidation ratios of more than 15:1, while increasing efficiency through management automation and the dynamic allocation of resources to business-critical applications across internal and external cloud infrastructures.

Increase IT Control Through Service-Level Automation

Automate the enforcement of service-level agreements to ensure the availability, security and scalability of business-critical applications. VMware vSphere shields application owners from the complexity of servers, storage and network infrastructure—enabling them to focus on delivering business value. The result is an automated, controlled and resilient IT environment that that responds rapidly to changing business requirements.

Empower Your IT Department with Choice

Deliver business services on-demand with the freedom to choose the right industry standard hardware, application architecture, operating system, and in-house or external infrastructure to suit your business. With VMware vSphere, your IT environment is future-proofed and ready to adapt to changing requirements. You retain flexibility of choice—independent of hardware, OS, applications or providers—so you can feel confident about deploying today's and future applications in the internal or external cloud.

Find the Edition that Fits your Needs

• VMware vSphere Standard offers basic consolidation of applications to slash hardware costs while accelerating application deployment.
• VMware vSphere Advanced protects business-critical applications against planned and unplanned downtime to provide superior application availability.
• VMware vSphere Enterprise minimizes downtime, protecting data, and automating resource management.
• VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus delivers the benefits of VMware vSphere and transforms your IT infrastructure into the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services.

Upgrade From VMware Infrastructure 3

Upgrade From VMware Infrastructure 3 to VMware vSphere 4.x, the best platform for building out cloud infrastructures.

Use the vSphere Upgrade Advisor to prepare for the upgrade process, review entitlements and compatibility for VMware vSphere.

Upgrade Tools:

• vSphere Upgrade Center
• vSphere Upgrade Advisor