HPE Morpheus VM Essentials: A viable alternative to VMware
Experience HPE VM Essentials with a guided 14-day proof of concept. Deploy, test and evaluate the platform within your environment with support from Nexstor and HPE experts.
Try HPE Morpheus VM Essentials in Your Own Environment
Get hands-on experience with HPE VM Essentials through a guided proof of concept designed to help you evaluate the platform against your existing virtualisation environment. Nexstor and HPE specialists will help you assess functionality, compatibility and suitability before making any long-term decisions.
What’s included?
Is this trial right for you?
- Guided support from HPE and Nexstor specialists
- Access to a fully deployed HPE VM Essentials environment
- Deployment assistance from certified HPE experts
- A tailored proof of concept based on your requirements
- Dedicated technical guidance throughout the trial
- Recommendations and next steps following completion
Perfect for organisations looking to:
- Explore HPE VM Essentials before committing
- Assess compatibility with existing infrastructure
- Understand migration requirements
- Validate platform performance with real workloads
- Build a business case for future virtualisation decisions
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
- Automated failover
- Disaster recovery systems
- Enhanced security safeguards
- In-built migration tools
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.
- High availability
- Automated failover
- Disaster recovery systems
- Enhanced security safeguards
- In-built migration tools
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
Why Nexstor for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials?
Nexstor works with organisations evaluating virtualisation platforms every day.
Whether you're exploring new virtualisation options or assessing your long-term strategy, our specialists can help you evaluate how VM Essentials fits within your existing environment:
Identify the right fit for your environment
Understand infrastructure and licensing requirements
Test VM Essentials against real workloads
Create a phased roadmap for adoption
See HPE Morpheus VM Essentials in action
Why work with Nexstor?
Our Cloud-based S3 platform allows for up to 6 copies of your data to be stored across our two UK data centres.
Expert advice regarding cloud storage processes, making sure that your IT team is well-prepared to deliver the best results
We do not charge for egress
Unlike public cloud providers, we do not charge for egress. Our customers have restored back hundreds of terabytes a year, something which could have cost them thousands of pounds a year in the public cloud.
Our charging model is simple and transparent, we only bill for the terabytes of data we host within our cloud platform.
Support is our strength. With our UK-based, 24×7 support desk, our clients can access our support in three ways:
- 24x7 UK Based Telephone Support
- Web-ticketing system
Quality & security built in
Request your free trial today and test it in your own environment
HPE Morpheus Software FAQs
What is HPE Morpheus VM Essentials?
HPE Morpheus VM Essentials is an enterprise virtualisation platform built on an open, KVM-based foundation. It gives organisations a credible alternative to the traditional proprietary hypervisor platforms most enterprises have relied on for years, without demanding a disruptive, all-at-once migration. VM Essentials can manage mixed environments from a single interface, so you can introduce it alongside what you’re already running and shift workloads over at a pace that suits your business, rather than being locked into one vendor’s roadmap and pricing model.
Do I need to move away from VMware to use it?
No. VM Essentials is designed to run alongside your existing VMware estate, not replace it overnight. You can manage both from the same console and migrate workloads at your own pace, which makes it a lower-risk way to diversify your virtualisation strategy while keeping existing investments in place.
What integrations does HPE Morpheus Software support?
HPE Morpheus Software integrates with over 90 platforms and tools, providing centralised management and automation across hybrid cloud, virtualisation, infrastructure, and IT service environments.
What enterprise features and governance capabilities are included?
HPE Morpheus Software includes built-in governance, access controls, auditing, and compliance features, helping Nexstor customers securely manage and optimise hybrid cloud environments at scale.
What core virtualisation features are included?
HPE Morpheus Software includes enterprise-grade virtualisation capabilities such as high availability, live migration, intelligent workload placement, and policy-driven provisioning to support reliable and efficient infrastructure management.
How can HPE Morpheus help reduce virtualisation costs?
HPE Morpheus Software can help Nexstor customers lower virtualisation costs through simplified licensing, centralised management, and greater platform flexibility, helping reduce reliance on costly vendor-specific pricing models.
Can we trial it before committing?
Yes. Nexstor offers a VM Essentials trial on HPE hardware, delivered to your site, with installation and support included, so you can evaluate it against real workloads before making a decision.
