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Did you know HP offers a range of VMware products? That’s right. No integration worries and no need to manage multiple vendors. For a complete list of VMware solutions offered by HP, click here.

HP Adaptive Infrastructure Portfolio Extended to Include VMware vSphere Products:
View the entire list of products available from HP. 
View the flash demo to learn more about VMware vSphere.
Check out the new HP Virtualization bundles.
Download our brochure to learn how the HP/VMware solution enables an Adaptive Infrastructure

On July 13, 2009, HP announced new upgrades for VMware vSphere – the first cloud operating system and additional support of VMware vSphere products and services.

These offerings will expand HP’s Adaptive Infrastructure (AI)– which enables the next generation datacenter and includes our latest ProLiant G6 servers designed for virtualization, the HP Insight Software including a comprehensive infrastructure management, StorageWorks products and a suite of HP Services.
  • vSphere Standard to Advanced, Standard to Enterprise, Enterprise to Enterprise Plus, Essentials to Essentials Plus upgrades.
  • vCenter Server Foundation to Standard upgrade.
  • VMware Lab Manager 4.0.
  • All vSphere products include a 1 yr 9x5 Support and Subscription from HP. Extended services for 3, 4 and 5 yr also available.

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VMware vSphere:

Introducing the Next Generation HP ProLiant G6 Servers

Take your VMware environment to the next level with HP ProLiant and BladeSystem G6 servers powered by Intel Xeon® Processor® 5500 Series.  We’re introducing ten new platforms, including racks, towers and blades, all with unparalleled performance that will help you:   
  • Optimize your VMware infrastructure.
  • Minimize power consumption.
  • Get more from every dollar spent on server hardware.
Don’t take our word for it – read the latest VMmark performance brief here.  Best of all, they’re all Certified for VMware.


HP and VMware: Helping you Virtualize with Confidence

Why HP and VMware? HP partners closely with VMware to engineer and offer innovative technologies, so you can virtualize with confidence. Only HP gives customers an end-to-end virtualization solution that encompasses all aspects of your environment—from virtualization of mission-critical platforms, to client infrastructure, to management of your virtualized data center. These offerings include industry-leading virtualization software from VMware, combined with HP infrastructure and tools for unified management of the virtual environment. Read more about HP Virtualization with VMware in our Solutions Guide.

A Proven, Reliable Solution That You Can Trust

  • Broadest portfolio of VMware certified servers - HP offers more VMware certified servers than any other OEM, and we have a full array of ProLiant servers certified for VMware ESX and VMware ESX Server 3i. With ProLiant Virtualization, you can save valuable time by starting up a virtual server in minutes, right out of the box!
  • Industry-leading integrated management software portfolio - the HP Insight Control suite suite delivers comprehensive system health, remote control, vulnerability scanning and patch management as well as flexible deployment and power management in one easy to install package for virtual and physical servers. The newest member of the Insight family, Insight Dynamics-VSE, lets you analyze and optimize virtual and physical environments in the same way, bringing the benefits of virtualization to physical servers.
  • Complete disaster recovery solutionHP's Storage Solution for VMware, comprised of HP StorageWorks EVA, Continuous Access and VMware Site Recovery Manager, can help you automate and simplify disaster.
  • End-to-end client virtualization solutionHP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is based on the best managed and virtualization-ready HP ProLiant and BladeSystem servers, HP StorageWorks storage, and HP Thin Client access devices.
  • Services and training resources to help plan, manage, and operate your VMware environment - HP Services has more VMware Certified Professionals than any other organization, except for VMware itself. HP is the only global VMware Authorized Training Center.

HP & VMware News & Information

  • Recorded Webcast: Realizing the Benefits of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - join HP and VMware to learn how a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure can help you get in control of your desktops as well as best practices to ensure you maximize your VDI solution.

  • Whitepaper: "Planning and Deploying a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure on HP Hardware" - describes the processes involved in implementing a VDI proof-of-concept (POC) and discusses planning, design, architecture, and troubleshooting as well as environmental considerations.

  • HP VMware training: Over 10,000 students have turned to HP for their VMware training, and you can too. Let HP show you how to make the most of your VMware environment with the help of our extensive offering of certified VMware training curriculum. Check out the latest HP training offerings.

  • Analyst Report: Download the new IDC paper, "The Business Value of Virtualization," to learn the detailed business benefits of an integrated virtualization solution.

  • In the news: HP ProLiant servers earn best overall virtual performance on 2P VMmark benchmark (Jan 2009) - The HP ProLiant DL385 G5p delivers the best 2P performance overall for virtualization with its latest record of 11.28 @ 8 tiles. In addition, the HP ProLiant BL495c G5 is, virtually, the best 2P blade with a result of 11.23 @ 8 tiles. HP ProLiant servers extend the savings from virtualization to a lower ongoing cost of ownership via HP Thermal Logic Technology. This result defeated the Dell, IBM, and Sun competitors.
    For this benchmark, the HP ProLiant DL385 G5p offers up to a 39.7% performance advantage when compared to its competitors utilizing VMware. The HP ProLiant BL495c G5 offers up to a 52.3% performance advantage when compared to other blade competitors running the VMmark Benchmark.

  • In the news: HP ProLiant DL785 G5 sets new record in virtualization performance - again! (Dec 2008) - The 32-core HP ProLiant DL785 G5 is the highest performing server on the VMmark benchmark with a leadership score of 27.71@19 tiles. HP ProLiant DL785 with the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Model 8384 processors (2.7 GHz) scores the largest number of virtual machines ever achieved on an x86 platform - again. Result shows 12% superior performance delta as compared to IBM System x3950 M2 and 26% performance increase as compared to the previous DL785 VMmark result with Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors Model 8360SE (2.5 GHz).

  • Ebook: “The Adventures of Hair on Fire – How to Escape Black Holes of Time.” Time is money. Find out how the HP Insight Software portfolio can help save you days, weeks, or even months of time when it comes to operating your data center.

  • Technology Brief: HP VMware ESXi Management Environment integration note

  • Videocast: Getting Serious about virtualization - in this video, hosted by TechTarget, HP discusses best practices and the experience of HP's field organization with clients who have moved their virtualized infrastructures pilot projects to more serious, production infrastructures.

  • Videocast: Performance Considerations with VMware - in this video, hosted by TechTarget, Stephen Schultz,Senior Systems Engineer at VMware discusses the challenges that advanced VMware users are facing and the new integrated version of ESX, ESXi.

  • Webcast with VMware: Disaster recovery made easy with HP BladeSystem and VMware virtualization - Topics covered include the SMB disaster recovery landscape, an overview of disaster recovery best practices, common disaster recovery planning and implementation challenges and the HP and VMware approach to disaster recovery.

  • Videocast: HP's Mouton endorses VMware ESX 3i- James Mouton, Sr. VP of HP Industry Standard Servers, explains how HP ProLiant and BladeSystems take advantage of new VMware ESX Server 3i capabilities to securely manage environments.

  • Webcast: Leveraging Virtualization for Disaster Recovery – Learn which problems virtualization can solve, how customers are using virtualization and how to leverage your virtualization investment for disaster recovery.

  • Flash demo: HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with VMware