NEW! VMware vSphere 5

vSphere Editions - Designed for midsize and enterprise customers, VMware delivers four main offerings targeted at various deployment scenarios: VMware: VMware
vSphere Standard, VMware vSphere Advanced, VMware vSphere Enterprise, and VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus. These editions are ONLY the server based
components required to run vSphere. All editions need to be run with the vCenter Server (either in an existing setup or with a separate new purchase).

* Designed especially for small IT environments with fewer than 20 physical servers, the vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus editions deliver enterprise-class capabilities in cost-effective packages for organizations that want to optimize and protect their IT assets with minimal up front investment.

Return On Investment (ROI)

In this tough economic environment, with declining budgets, IT is expected to do more with less. With cost, resource, and time pressures, how do you ensure continued innovation, while meeting your service level agreements (SLAs)? Take control of your IT and datacenter by building a virtualized infrastructure. With VMware virtualization, you can see immediate, quantifiable cost savings, while ensuring true business agility—the ability to rapidly respond to the changing market environment. In this economy, the question is not whether you can afford to virtualize with VMware, but rather "How can you afford not to?"

Managed Services

CDW Infrastructure as a Service (CDW IaaS)

The CDW Infrastructure as a Service (CDW IaaS) is a cloud-based solution for organizations interested in employing enterprise class shared infrastructure elements as a service. Our objective is to relieve our customers of long-term capital investment in IT infrastructure while providing them a scalable platform.

CDW offers a fully redundant configuration: 99.9% monthly service uptime guarantee with the following tasks for a VMware environment. Typical offering of IaaS infrastructure elements includes the following shared elements:

• Windows- and Linux-based customer-dedicated server instances from our VMware-based cloud infrastructure pool
• Pay-as-you-use data storage and backup capacity and management service
• Cloud-based firewall and load-balancing services
• Highly available tier 1 Internet access

Managed Services for VMware

CDW Managed Services for VMware can monitor and manage your VMware-based virtualization infrastructure at your location or in our data centers with 24x7 coverage through our Network Operations Centers and the 150+ strong engineering team, taking that burden off your IT staff. We offer a 99.9% monthly service uptime guarantee with the following tasks for a VMware environment.

VMware Volume Licensing Programs

To learn more about VMware Volume Licensing, please contact your account manager or click here to submit a request for more information.

1. VPP discounts are directly correlated to a customer’s accumulated points total. As an accumulated points total changes, so may the eligible VPP discount level.
2. U.S. federal customers are eligible to receive volume discounts using their current program. Academic SKUs are not eligible for VPP.
3. The following criteria must be met to determine whether an affiliate is eligible to join a pre-existing VPP membership: 1) The affiliate is at least 50% owned by the parent; 2) The affiliate utilizes the purchasing department of the parent company to purchase VMware product licenses; 3) The affiliate does not publicly trade on any stock exchange under its own stock ticker symbol.