vSphere Kits combine a number of vSphere licenses with vCenter for central management – everything you need to start your virtualization journey. Essentials Kits are great for smaller environments, while Acceleration kits have more advanced features and can scale to any sized environment. If you’re an SMB with vSphere Essentials or Essentials Plus on or before January 31, 2011, you may by eligible for a 40% off on upgrades to the Standard Acceleration Kit. Upgrade Now!

	Essentials Kit	Essentials Plus Kit	Standard Acceleration Kit	Advanced Acceleration Kit with vCenter Standard	Midsize Acceleration Kit (w/Enterprise)	Enterprise Plus Acceleration Kit
Overview	Server consolidation and centralized management	Server consolidation and business continuity	Scalable server consolidation & no planned downtime	Secure and always available infrastructure	Powerful & efficient resource management	Policy-based datacenter automation
Product Components
Centralized Management	vCenter for Essentials	vCenter for Essentials	vCenter Standard	vCenter Standard	vCenter Standard	vCenter Standard
Included Entitlement	3 servers with up to 2 processors each	3 servers with up to 2 processors each	8 Processors - scalable with additional licenses	6 Processors - scalable with additional licenses	6 Processors - scalable with additional licenses	8 Processors - scalable with additional licenses
Memory/Physical Server	256GB	256GB	256GB	256GB	256GB	No Memory Limit
Cores per Processor	6	6	6	12	6	12
vCPU Entitlement	4-way	4-way	4-way	4-way	4-way	4-way
Product Features
Thin Provisioning
Update Manager
vStorage APIs for Data Protection
Data Recovery
High Availability
vMotion
Virtual Serial Port Concentrator
Hot Add
vShield Zones
Fault Tolerance
vStorage APIs for Array Integration
vStorage APIs for Multipathing
Storage vMotion
Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS), Distributed Power Management (DPM)
Storage I/O Control
Network I/O Control
Distributed Switch
Host Profiles