A modern virtualization platform built for today’s market shift — helping customers reduce cost, simplify management and modernize infrastructure.
HPE VME provides a commercial KVM-based hypervisor with centralized management that allows organizations to run both existing VMware environments and new workloads from a single interface.
Customers can reduce virtualization licensing costs by up to 90% for migrated workloads.
Watch the VME overview
Learn how HPE VME helps organizations modernize virtualization infrastructure while maintaining operational flexibility.
This short overview explains:
- How HPE VME provides centralized management for VMware and KVM environments
- How organizations can evaluate new platforms without disruptive migrations
- How Arrow supports partners with assessments, enablement, and migration planning
What HPE VM Essentials delivers
VM Essentials combines an enterprise-ready KVM-based hypervisor with a centralized management platform that simplifies operations across hybrid environments.
Key capabilities include:
- Unified management for VMware and KVM clusters
- Enterprise virtualization features such as high availability and live migration
- Bulk migration tools for transitioning workloads from VMware environments
- Support for enterprise backup solutions such as Commvault and Veeam
- Integration with Zerto for disaster recovery and workload mobility
- Ecosystem integrations with networking, storage and data protection platforms
This allows organizations to evaluate and adopt new virtualization platforms at their own pace without disrupting existing environments.
Lower cost, higher efficiency
Organizations modernizing their virtualization infrastructure with HPE VME can achieve measurable operational benefits:
Up to 90% lower licensing cost for migrated workloads
Up to 48% lower total cost of ownership over 5 years
Up to 65% annual power savings through consolidation
Arrow helps you win more VME opportunities
Arrow provides partners with the expertise and enablement needed to guide customers through virtualization modernization.
Support includes:
- CloudPhysics data-driven infrastructure assessments
- Pre-sales architecture guidance
- Migration planning and deployment support
- Training for HPE VME and CloudPhysics
- Opportunity discovery and deal acceleration
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Talk with Arrow’s specialists about how HPE Morpheus VM Essentials can help your customers modernize virtualization infrastructure while reducing cost and complexity.
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