New VMware vSphere+ Standard edition

Workloads continue to expand as enterprises embrace the multi-cloud age. Each workload has its criteria that determine where it should deploy. Consequently, most businesses have workloads operating in several clouds and on-premises, either as traditional infrastructure, private clouds, or third-party hosting. One thing is sure: there will be more workloads everywhere, even on-premises.

Workloads running on-premises enjoy various benefits, including locality, low latency, performance, predictable cost, and much more. However, they can miss out on the innovations available in the cloud.

vSphere+ Standard edition

VMware vSphere+ Standard, a new cloud-connected edition in the vSphere product family, is now Generally Available. Similar to vSphere+, the vSphere+ Standard edition is also available as a subscription with a per-core metric and does not require license management via keys.

vSphere+ Standard subscription includes vSphere Standard and vCenter Standard, and customers can deploy as many instances of vCenter as they need.

• Boost productivity with admin services: Leverage the Cloud Console and centrally manage and monitor global inventory, cluster capacity, alert status, security posture, and provision VMs to any vSphere cluster. Simplify the lifecycle management of vCenter instances with a single click. Reduce maintenance windows of updates, allowing for more rapid deployments of new features. Get automatic detection and remediation of configurations across the vSphere estate.

• Transform on-premises infrastructure with cloud integration: Realize benefits of the cloud while enhancing existing on-premises vSphere deployments in place with vSphere+ Standard, without any disruption or modifications to hosts and workloads. Activate add-on cloud services that expedite disaster recovery, provide ransomware protection, and simplify capacity optimization and planning, with more in development. Gain the flexibility of OpEx-based consumption while improving ROI from existing investments. vSphere+ Standard enables unified visibility and management across on-premises environments.