Designed especially for small IT environments with fewer than 20 physical servers, VMware vSphere Essentials Editions combine the high availability, performance and reliability of our enterprise class solutions in a package ideal for smaller IT environments and a price starting at less than $1,000 USD for a complete solution that includes central management.
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	<li><a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/small-business/buy.html"><strong>VMware vSphere™ Essentials</strong> </a> provides an all-in-one solution for small offices to consolidate and manage many application workloads while reducing hardware and operating costs with a low up-front investment.</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/small-business/buy.html"><strong>VMware vSphere™ Essentials Plus </strong> </a> adds high application availability and data protection for a complete server consolidation and business continuity solution for the small office IT environment.</li>
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Both editions are all-inclusive packages that enable you to virtualize and consolidate many application workloads onto three physical servers running vSphere and centrally manage them with vCenter Server for Essentials.