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Essentials and Virtualization

Virtualization is definitively on everyone’s radar, and for a midsize business, Server-based virtualization can provide key benefits to the bottom line. By implementing virtualization technologies, these companies can:

  • Improve business continuity and rapid recovery: Manage and reduce planned or unplanned downtime by quickly recovering an entire system from one physical server to another.

  • Optimize existing IT infrastructure: Increase utilization of your existing servers by running multiple applications on a physical server.

  • Control costs: Reduce server proliferation; save on hardware, power, and cooling costs; and reduce your overall IT footprint.

  • Enable growth: Scale up or out in a controlled fashion as demand for business applications grows.

Implementing and operating a virtualized environment can be a challenging task to a midsize business, which can be more sensitive to IT resources and budget. For these companies, having the ability to manage new virtual environments seamlessly with existing physical environments is a critical success factor.

System Center Essentials

Virtual Machine Manager Workgroup Edition

Features at a glance

  • Unified management experience

  • Simple setup

  • Comprehensive system and application management

  • Microsoft and third-party update management

  • Software deployment

  • Software and hardware inventory

  • Built-in reporting

Features at a glance

  • Centralized virtual machine deployment and management

  • Intelligent placement of virtual machines

  • Physical to virtual conversions (P2V)

  • Easy wizard-based tools

  • Server consolidation analysis and reports

Scale

  • Supports up to 30 physical or virtual servers and 500 clients

Scale

  • Supports up to 5 physical hosts with unlimited virtual machines

Pricing and Licensing

  • $2000 (Estimated Retail Price): Management Server with 10 Server MLs and 50 Client MLs