Lenovo VMware vSphere 5 Standard w/Operations Management Acceleration Kit, 6CPU, 1y

VMware vSphere 5 Standard with Operations Management Acceleration Kit, 6 CPU, 1 year <b>VMware vSphere 5</b>
VMware vSphere is the industry-leading virtualization platform for building cloud infrastructures that enables users to run business critical applications with confidence and respond faster to their business. vSphere accelerates the shift to cloud computing for existing datacenters, while also underpinning compatible public cloud offerings paving the way for the only hybrid cloud model. With over 250,000 customers worldwide and the support of over 2500 applications from more than 1400 ISV partners, VMware vSphere is the trusted platform for any application.
- Consolidate and optimize IT hardware — vSphere enables IT organizations to delay costly and disruptive datacenter expansion projects by making it possible to consolidate 15 or more virtual machines on a single physical server without sacrificing performance or throughput.
- Improve business continuity — vSphere helps organizations reduce the cost and complexity of business continuity and disaster recovery with always-on IT capabilities and layered protection against service outages and data loss.
- Streamline IT operations — vSphere lowers operational overhead and dramatically simplifies the management of large, geographically distributed development, quality assurance, and production IT environments.
- Deliver IT as a service — vSphere is the only virtualization platform that gives customers the power to realize the benefits of cloud computing while maintaining security, compliance and complete control over corporate assets.

<b>VMware vSphere 5 With Operations Management</b>
vSphere with Operations Management combines the world’s leading virtualization platform with best-in-class management capabilities. This new solution enables users to gain operational insight into a vSphere environment while optimizing capacity. As vSphere environments continue to grow, users need proactive management that can deliver monitoring, performance and capacity information at a glance. This detailed analysis enables users to get the most out of the virtualization platform by reclaiming unused capacity, rightsizing virtual machines, improving utilization and helping to increase consolidation ratios. Supporting more than 3,000 applications from more than 1,650 ISV partners, vSphere provides the broadest choice for virtualizing business-critical applications.
- Improve application performance and business continuity – vSphere with Operations Management supports even the most resource-intensive applications to guarantee SLAs and availability. It reduces the cost and complexity of managing business continuity and disaster recovery with always-on IT capabilities and layered protection against service outages and data loss.
- Simplify IT operations at a lower cost – vSphere with Operations Management lowers operational overhead and dramatically simplifies the management of development, quality assurance and production IT environments that are large and geographically distributed.
- Gain operational insight – vSphere with Operations Management enables IT to respond to performance trends proactively. It collects and analyzes performance data, correlates abnormalities and identifies the root cause of building performance issues.
- Optimize capacity – vSphere with Operations Management makes it easier to manage and optimize capacity planning. Unused virtual machines can be reclaimed, and underprovisioned virtual machines can be right-sized, helping to make the most efficient use of resources.

vSphere with Operations Management is available in three editions—Standard, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus—and in several vSphere with Operations Management Acceleration Kits.