HPE VM Essentials: A Viable Alternative to VMware
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Why HPE VM Essentials is your trusted alternative to VMware in the virtualisation landscape.
In the post-Broadcom era, Hewlett Packard-Bell Enterprises’ HPE VM Essentials is the most compelling alternative to VMware vSphere and the associated products for users concerned about rising costs and vendor lock-in following the Broadcom acquisition.
On this page you’ll find the key benefits of HPE VM Essentials (VME), including the platform’s greater stability, flexibility, cost effectiveness, and simplified management systems, and discover how the platform can benefit your organisation.
HPE VM Essentials: Key Features and Benefits
For VMware users who are dissatisfied with the product following the takeover by Broadcom, HPE VM Essentials (VME) provides a straightforward and compelling alternative. Here are the key features and benefits to be aware of when making your choice:
1. Simplified virtualisation management:
Manage and deploy both VME and VMware-based virtual machines from a unified interface, reducing complexity, minimising errors, and streamlining your operation. This flexibility and choice enables a smooth and gradual migration to HPE VM Essentials with continued compatibility with your existing systems. It is also possible to manage public cloud instances and deploy container workloads through the same technology.
2. Enterprise grade features:
HPE VM Essentials delivers a range of robust features, including:
- High availability to ensure continuous operation for critical workloads.
- Automated failover to reduce recovery time and manual intervention in the event of a system failure.
- Disaster recovery systems to protect your applications and data from cyber-attacks, hardware failures, fire or flood.
- Enhanced security safeguards, using Role Based Access Controls and next gen data encryption to make sure that only authorised users have access to your critical resources and applications. The platform’s secure boot and firmware protections also prevent malicious code (e.g ransomware) from being initiated during the boot-up process, giving you greater peace of mind over your data security.
- In-built migration tools, at no cost, allowing you to control the conversion of VMWare virtual machines to HPE VME virtual machines through the single UI.
3. Cost advantages:
HPE VM Essentials simplifies your virtualisation management, providing a cost-effective alternative to VMware and other competing solutions. With significantly lower licence costs compared to VMware, organisations can save up to 60% by migrating to HPE VM Essentials.
4. Future proof your IT infrastructure:
HPE VM Essentials gives you a scalable strategy for modernising your IT infrastructure to incorporate future workloads and opportunities. Expose curated app services and environments via GUI, PI, IaC or ITSM to provision services through a single cloud management platform. Deploy, orchestrate and manage your full range of workloads (on-prem or cloud-managed) through HPE’s management ecosystem and operationalise workflows for day-0,1 and 2 tasks.
5. Unified IT operations:
The platform integrates seamlessly with HPE Greenlake and Morpheus Data for a unified and optimised approach to IT operations. With a range of automated tools and workflows at your fingertips, HPE VM Essentials is the perfect solution for businesses looking to strengthen their virtualisation strategy while avoiding the challenges of rising costs and vendor lock in.
6. Versatility and scalability:
HPE VM Essentials is engineered to scale in step with the needs of your business, supporting a wide range of business models and workloads, at a price point that makes it accessible to enterprises of all sizes and requirements.
7. Freedom from vendor lock in:
By maintaining a transparent licensing model and an open-source foundation for its technologies (e.g. the Kernel-based Virtual Machine, or KVM), HPE VM Essentials maximises integration potential and interoperability, while reducing your dependence on proprietary solutions. This allows you to deploy a tailored virtualisation strategy and use HPE VM Essentials alongside other platforms without being penalised or tied to a single vendor.
Features and services of HPE VM Essentials
These are all of the core services covered
| Core | Hypervisor | ESXi | HPE VM Essentials |
| Live Migration | ESXi to ESXi (vMotion) | HP VM Essentials to HP VM Essentials | |
| High Availability | Yes | Yes | |
| Storage Migration | Storage vMotion | Storage Live Migration | |
| Workload Balancing | Yes | Yes | |
| Affinity & Anti | Yes | Roadmap | |
| Storage Support | Local, NFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel | Local, NFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel | |
| Logs & Metrics | Robust Native (+Aria Operations) | Basic Native (+OpsRamp for Adv.) | |
| GPU Support | Yes | Roadmap: VM Essentials & Morpheus | |
| Install Experience | .iso | Ubuntu. Roadmap: Streamline | |
| Resiliency | Snapshots | VMW native with memory | HPE VM Essentials native, array-based |
| Backup | Robust ecosystem | HP VM Essentials native. Roadmap ecosystem | |
| DR | VMware Live Recovery (SRM), Zerto | Zerto | |
| Ecosystem | Storage Integrations | vVols and VSAN | Alletra plugin and more to come |
| HCL | Extensive | ProLiant & Alletra. Roadmap: HPE & 3P | |
| OVA/OVF Support | Yes | Roadmap |
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