SUMMARYHewlett Packard Enterprise announced a promotion at its Discover event in Las Vegas offering new VM Essentials customers up to one year of free virtualization software. The package includes HPE Morpheus Software—VM Essentials, a year of HPE Zerto for $1 to help migration, and 0 percent interest financing through HPE Financial Services. The platform is positioned as a VMware alternative and supports managing VMware ESXi and HVM clusters from one console.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) new virtualization software promotion will likely pique the interest of end users and resellers who are unhappy with Broadcom's pricing of VMware.
During its HPE Discover event in Las Vegas this week, HPE announced that customers could use its “HPE Morpheus Software—VM Essentials” offering for free for “up to one year,” per a press release. HPE’s website describes its virtualization platform as a “VMware alternative.” It includes a hardware virtual machine (HVM) hypervisor and unified management and lets users "manage VMware ESXi and HVM clusters from one console and migrate when you’re ready,” HPE’s website says.
“New VM Essentials customers can receive up to one free year of licenses for VM Essentials, a year of HPE Zerto for $1 to support non-disruptive migration to HPE virtual machines, and 0 percent interest on software through HPE Financial Services,” HPE’s announcement reads, referring to HPE’s group for helping IT teams manage funding.