What is VMware Vsphere Standard? 
VMware Vsphere standard is a complete, scalable platform used to deploy fast and powerful virtualisation to transform your IT infrastructure. It is designed for businesses that need to optimise their existing IT infrastructure and data centre expansions. This edition provides an entry level solution for the basic consolidation of hardware whilst helping to accelerate the deployment of applications.
How does VMware Vsphere Standard Work?
Vsphere is used to help consolidate and optimise existing hardware, by making it possible to consolidate fifteen or more machines onto a single server without affecting the performance. Vsphere helps to improve business continuity and disaster recovery with layered protection against data loss. Vsphere helps to streamline your IT operational overheads; it is the only virtualisation platform that enables you to gain the benefits of cloud computing while maintaining security, compliance and control over your corporate assets.
| Features | Benefits |
Efficient | Consolidation rates of 15:1 can be achieved without affecting performance |
Lower Costs | Reduces capital expenditure by up to 70% and operational expenditure by up 30% which achieves 20-30% lower costs for each application running on Vsphere |
Quick Response | Enables you to respond quickly to the changing needs of your business without sacrificing any security or control of your IT infrastructure. |
Freedom of Choice | Allowing you to enhance Vsphere through open APIs with solutions from a global ecosystem of leading technology suppliers. |
Components of VMware Vsphere Standard
| Infrastructure Services | Application Services |
VMware ESXi™ and ESX® hypervisor architectures | VMware vMotion™ eliminates the need to schedule application downtime |
VMware Virtual SMP enables the use of ultra-powerful virtual machine. | VMware High Availability (HA) |
VMware vStorage Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) | Hot plug virtual storage and network devices |
VMware vStorage APIs | Hot extend of virtual disks allows virtual storage to be added to virtual machines |
VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning | |
View more information on the VMware Vsphere Standard Factsheet.
For more information about VMware Vsphere Standard edition please contact one of our VMware Specialists on 0121 262 6240