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Unlike virtualization products that get more expensive with today's high core count CPUs, HPE Morpheus VM Essentials is priced attractively per CPU socket at a suggested US list price of $600 / Socket / Year*.
Category | VM Essentials feature | HPE Morpheus VM Essentials | VMware vSphere feature | VMware vSphere Standard | VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus | Nutanix | Proxmox |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Virtualization and Resource Management | Pricing | Per socket | Per core | Per core | n/a | Per Socket | |
Virtualization and Resource Management | Virtual Symmetric Multiprocessing for resource allocation |  | vSMP | | | | |
Virtualization and Resource Management | High Availability for automatic failover | | HA | | | | |
Virtualization and Resource Management | Distributed Resource Scheduler: Automated workload balancing | | Distributed Resource Scheduler |  | | | |
Virtualization and Resource Management | Single Root I/O Virtualization for improved network performance | | SR-IOV | | | | |
Migration and Replication | Live migration of virtual machines (like to like, within a cluster) | | vMotion | | | | |
Migration and Replication | Live migration of virtual machine storage | | Storage vMotion | | | | |
Storage and Data Management | High availability for management server | | vCenter HA (auto-restart) | | | | |
Storage and Data Management | Data protection for management server | | vCenter Backup and Restore | | | | |
Data Protection and Disaster Recovery | Synchronous replication for disaster recovery in metropolitan areas | | MetroCluster | | | | |
Data Protection and Disaster Recovery | Native VM snapshots | | VM Snapshot | | | | |
Data Protection and Disaster Recovery | Native VM backup and recovery | | N/A | | | | |
Infrastructure Management | Centralized repository for virtual machine templates and other files | | Content Library | | | | |
Infrastructure Management | Identity and Access Management Federation | | Identity Federation | | | | |
Security | Secure Communication Protocols (TLS 1.2/1.3) | | TLS 1.2 and 1.3 | | | | |
Security | Virtual Machine Encryption | | VM Encryption | | | | |
Security | Virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) 2.0 | | vTPM | | | | |
Network Management | IP Address Management (IPAM) integration to automatically reserve IP Addresses from external IPAM solutions | | N/A | | | | |
Network Management | Domain Name System (DNS) integration to automatically create DNS records in external DNS solutions | | N/A | | | | |
1 The suggested price is not a guaranteed selling price and doesn't account for local tax and regional variations. Actual end user price may vary. Authorized partners are free to set their own prices.
2 This is not intended to be an exhaustive feature comparison. For most current features, refer to HPE VM Essentials Software Quickspecs and release notes. The features discussed indicate an approximate comparison of equivalent features. The exact implementation of the features will vary between the products.
3 VMware, VMware vSphere, vMotion, Storage vMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduler, MetroCluster and vApp(s) are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. and its subsidiaries in the United States and other jurisdictions.
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