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$ soultec get solution/hpe/hpe-morpheus/vm-essentials -o yaml$ soultec get solution/hpe/hpe-morpheus/vm-essentials -o json$ soultec get solution/hpe/hpe-morpheus/vm-essentials -o toml$ soultec get solution/hpe/hpe-morpheus/vm-essentials -o xml$ python3 hpe/hpe-morpheus/vm-essentials.pyPS> ./hpe/hpe-morpheus/vm-essentials.ps1$ go run hpe/hpe-morpheus/vm-essentials.go$ node hpe/hpe-morpheus/vm-essentials.js

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What it is

body: | VM Essentials is HPE's own virtualization platform: the HVM hypervisor, plus a management layer that runs HVM clusters and VMware vSphere clusters side by side in the same console. Container workloads go through HKS from the same place. - heading:

Licensing and migration

body: | It is aimed at the estate looking for a way out of a per-core licence. HPE prices it **per socket**, on one, three or five year terms, and puts a VMware ESXi to HVM migration feature in the product rather than in a services engagement. HPE's own headline number is a cost reduction of up to 90 percent. That is HPE's claim. The saving depends on your core-to-socket ratio. - heading:

Running beside vSphere

body: | The two hypervisors run **beside** each other. Clusters move when their hardware refresh or their application owner says so. In the meantime, the same console manages both sides. - heading:

Where it stops

body: | VM Essentials is the virtualization tier. Ordering, governance, cost control and the public clouds are the tier above it, HPE Morpheus Software. Moving up to it is an upgrade of the existing installation. One thing to check early: micro-segmentation here is an add-on and it expects HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 switches. If you segment with a distributed firewall in software today, there is no like-for-like replacement for it here.status: corpus: 315 services: - {ref: services/cloud, score: 0.74} - {ref: services/engineering, score: 0.54} - {ref: services/cloud-strategie, score: 0.37} - {ref: services/remarketing, score: 0.37} posts: - {ref: posts/hpe-vm-essentials-part-2, score: 0.46} - {ref: posts/hpe-vm-essentials-part1, score: 0.46} - {ref: posts/morpheus-cloud-management-plattform, score: 0.47} experts: - {ref: experts/fabian-faessler, score: 0.50} - {ref: experts/patrick-pletscher, score: 0.48} - {ref: experts/christian-schnyder, score: 0.47} neighbours: - {ref: solutions/hpe/hpe-morpheus, relation: parent} - {ref: solutions/hpe/hpe-private-cloud-business-edition-pcbe, score: 0.68} - {ref: solutions/hpe/hpe-zerto, score: 0.49} - {ref: solutions/hpe/hpe-greenlake, score: 0.42} search: /en/search.json

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Solution · HPE

Morpheus VM Essentials

The vendor calls it: HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software

HPE's own hypervisor with a control plane that runs it beside vSphere. Licensed per socket, on one, three or five year terms.

HPE Gold Partner

Topics Virtualization 1.42 Migration 2.82 Cloud 1.92

Vendors HPE 1.99 Morpheus 3.48

04Services

03Posts

03Capabilities

315Corpus

photograph wantedThe Morpheus self-service catalogue on screen, with someone provisioning from it

What it is

VM Essentials is HPE’s own virtualization platform: the HVM hypervisor, plus a management layer that runs HVM clusters and VMware vSphere clusters side by side in the same console. Container workloads go through HKS from the same place.

Licensing and migration

It is aimed at the estate looking for a way out of a per-core licence. HPE prices it per socket, on one, three or five year terms, and puts a VMware ESXi to HVM migration feature in the product rather than in a services engagement.

HPE’s own headline number is a cost reduction of up to 90 percent. That is HPE’s claim. The saving depends on your core-to-socket ratio.

Running beside vSphere

The two hypervisors run beside each other. Clusters move when their hardware refresh or their application owner says so. In the meantime, the same console manages both sides.

Where it stops

VM Essentials is the virtualization tier. Ordering, governance, cost control and the public clouds are the tier above it, HPE Morpheus Software. Moving up to it is an upgrade of the existing installation.

One thing to check early: micro-segmentation here is an add-on and it expects HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 switches. If you segment with a distributed firewall in software today, there is no like-for-like replacement for it here.

What we do with it

Draft, unreviewed

Draft, not yet reviewed. We settle the licence question first. Whether the move is worth doing depends on socket count, on the vSphere renewal date, and on how far your day-to-day operations depend on vCenter. After that, whether HVM runs your workload can be answered in a fortnight.

This paragraph is a draft and nobody at soulTec has confirmed it yet. Everything above it describes the product and is checkable against the vendor.

Posts about it

HPE VM Essentials – Part 2

6 May 2025

Part 1 covered where VME stood in mid-February. A few weeks on, a fair amount has changed, and we built a three-node VME cluster in our lab.

Virtualization 1.42

HPE VM Essentials – Part 1

26 Feb 2025

HPE's own hypervisor, HPE VM Essentials, has been available in Europe since mid-February. Through the Morpheus Data acquisition, HPE has a proven KVM-based hypervisor.

Virtualization 1.42

Morpheus Cloud Management Platform

1 Sep 2022

As a Morpheus partner with certified specialists on the team, we want to take a moment to show what Morpheus is and how it makes your life in your infrastructure easier.

Cloud 1.92 Automation 1.81