HPE VM Essentials delivers unified virtualisation management that eliminates hypervisor lock-in. Your teams gain a single intuitive interface to provision KVM and VMware-based virtual machines without sacrificing enterprise capabilities.
Bridge your virtualisation environments
The solution includes the KVM-based HPE VME hypervisor enhanced with enterprise-grade features that match costly alternatives. You maintain flexibility by connecting and managing existing VMware clusters through the same console.
That unified approach lets you provision workloads on demand to the right environment based on business requirements rather than platform limitations. The included toolset converts existing VMware images when you decide to transition.
Enable enterprise-grade virtualisation
HPE VM Essentials delivers critical capabilities that maintain business continuity and maximise infrastructure efficiency. VM Live Migration moves virtual machines between physical hosts without disruption for improved utilisation and maintenance.
High availability features quickly restart virtual machines on another host during failures, while workload placement schedules VMs based on optimal resource availability. Storage migration capabilities move running VM disks between data stores without disruption.
Integrate with your existing investments
External storage support enables connection to NFS, iSCSI and Fibre Channel arrays, preserving your infrastructure investments.
The solution integrates with VMware vSphere deployments to discover existing VMs, provision new instances and manage your entire virtualised estate.
Native data protection creates and restores snapshot-based backups, while third-party integration supports Commvault, Rubrik and Veeam solutions. HTML5 console access supports VNC, SSH and RDP protocols for complete management flexibility.
Automate routine operations
Native IP pools assign addresses while built-in secrets management securely stores credentials for bootstrapping operations. Integration with third-party IP address management and DNS solutions automates network configuration during provisioning.
Provisioning task automation executes scripts during VM creation to handle software installation and system configuration. Day 2 task automation simplifies routine maintenance, such as disk space management and system updates, across your entire estate.
Simplify licensing and deployment
HPE VM Essentials uses straightforward socket-based licensing available in 1, 3, or 5-year terms. The complete compatibility matrix available online specifies supported hardware configurations to simplify deployment planning.
Select HPE services, from implementation assistance to complete operational management, to support your virtualisation journey regardless of internal resource availability or expertise.
