VMware Infrastructure 3 Overview

VMware Infrastructure 3 offers SMB organizations a scalable and cost-effective way to optimize utilization of technology assets, simplify IT management and protect the data and IT environments that run their businesses. Three new Acceleration Kits are now available, one for each of the three editions of VI3. These new kits offer midsize and smaller organizations and branch offices a cost-effective way to deploy a comprehensive virtualization solution that includes centralized management functionality. The ideal organization has a growing IT environment with between 15 – 60 servers. Organizations can choose the Acceleration Kit that best meets their requirements today, knowing that as their IT demands evolve and increase, VMware Infrastructure provides a simple upgrade path to more robust virtualization solutions. These kits also present an ideal solution for organizations who have tried VMware Server and are ready to step up to a more comprehensive and scalable virtualization solution that VI enables.

	VMware Infrastructure Foundation Acceleration Kit
	Cost-effective, scalable virtualization solution with centralized management
	VMware Infrastructure Foundation Acceleration Kit includes three, 2 processor licenses of VMware Infrastructure Foundation—VMware’s most cost-effective, scalable virtualization solution—along with VMware VirtualCenter Foundation Management Server, which is restricted to management of up to three VMware Infrastructure server hosts. This kit is ideal for organizations looking to get started with virtualization with a primary need for server consolidation.

	VMware Infrastructure Standard High Availability Acceleration Kit
	Scalable virtualization with higher levels of availability and VM uptime
	VMware Infrastructure Standard High Availability Acceleration Kit includes two, 2-processor nodes of VMware Infrastructure Standard, which comes with VMware High Availability (HA) enabling protection from entire systems going down as well as individual VMs. Also included is VMware VirtualCenter Foundation Management Server, providing management for up to three VMware Infrastructure hosts. This kit is ideal for organizations that want the security of knowing they can slash downtime for mission critical applications and recover rapidly from outages.

	VMware Infrastructure Midsize Acceleration Kit
	The best value for VMware’s most robust, enterprise-class virtualization software
	VMware Infrastructure Midsize Acceleration Kit includes three, 2-processor nodes of VMware Infrastructure Enterprise with all the advanced features of VMware Infrastructure 3 along with VMware VirtualCenter Foundation Management Server, which is restricted to management of up to three VMware Infrastructure server hosts. In addition, 30 training and consulting credits are included that can be applied to VMware classes such as the “VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configuration” course. This kit is ideal for organizations that want all the high-end benefits of VMware Infrastructure in smaller initial deployments or were concerned about development of in-house skills to successfully implement virtualization.