Marketing description

VMware vSphere Essentials Kit delivers the virtualization platform for small businesses at an affordable price. Small businesses can virtualize their physical servers and centrally manage these servers, reducing hardware costs and increasing operating efficiency with a low upfront investment.

Key selling points

• Provide business continuity and always-available IT
• Reduce IT footprint and simplify management
• Save on IT hardware costs
• Improve service levels and application quality
• Strengthen security and data protection

Product features

• Reduce IT costs through increased utilization
  Whether you are small, medium or large enterprise, Lenovo and VMware can help you realize the benefits of virtualization. Jointly, Lenovo and VMware can help you to reduce hardware costs, operating costs, and energy costs for your server workloads. By running VMware with your Lenovo ThinkServer, you can significantly increase hardware utilization without compromising end-to-end performance. View the VMware Compatibility Guide.
• Centralized management of your virtual infrastructure
  Manage your entire virtualized and non-virtualized infrastructure from a single point of control. The Lenovo ThinkServer Partner Pack for VMware vCenter provides a centralized console to manage and monitor the performance of your virtual environment. This free plug-in seamlessly integrates with your VMware vCenter virtualization management platform and allows you to administer your entire vSphere infrastructure from a single location. Simply download the Lenovo ThinkServer Partner Pack for VMware vCenter and deploy today. View the list of ThinkServer Drivers & Software.
• Cloud ready
  Build and run your secure VMware vSphere-based Cloud infrastructure on Lenovo ThinkServer. Change your business economics by converting IT from a cost center to a strategic center of business innovation through cloud computing. Lenovo and VMware can help you remove complexity and implement a flexible and scalable environment that is dynamic, efficient, and agile.