By Lauren Knisley | Feb 02, 2026 | Product of the Month

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Changing the Virtualization Game with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials

HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software is a virtualization software solution that allows customers to provision and manage KVM and VMware-based VMs from a single intuitive interface. The solution comes with the KVM-based HVM hypervisor that is enhanced to include enterprise-grade cluster management with capabilities such as high availability, live compute and storage migration, distributed workload placement, integrated data protection, secure hardening, and external storage support. To enable flexibility for those continuing to host VMware-based applications, VM Essentials can also be used to connect to and manage existing VMware clusters. This means unified management and simple VM provisioning across both the HVM hypervisor and VMware ESXi™ so you can provision workloads on demand to the right environment, on your terms, with zero lock-in. When you’re ready, you can use the included toolset to convert existing VMware images to VM Essentials.

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Key Features

Enterprise Virtualization

• VM Live Migration: Migrate running virtual machines from one physical host to another within an HVM cluster without downtime to improve host utilization or to perform host maintenance.

• VM High Availability: Enable workload resiliency with virtual machine high availability to quickly restart virtual machines on another physical host in the event of a host failure.

• Distributed Workload Placement: Dynamically schedule the placement of virtual machines within an HVM cluster based on intelligent placement logic that determines the optimal host for the virtual machine.

• VM Live Storage Migration: Migrate a running virtual machine’s storage disks from one datastore to another without downtime.

Solution Integrations

• VMware vSphere Integration: Integrate VM Essentials with a vSphere deployment to discover existing virtual machines, provision new virtual machines, as well as manage provisioned or discovered machines.

• Native IP Pools: Assign virtual machine IP addresses using the VM Essentials native IP pools feature to define and manage pools of IP addresses associated with virtual machine networks.

• Native Secrets Management: Securely store and retrieve credentials and other sensitive information used in automation tasks for bootstrapping and managing managed virtual machines.

• IP Address Management (IPAM) Integration: Integrate 3rd party IPAM solutions (InfoBlox, BlueCat, SolarWinds, phpIPAM, EfficientIP) to automate the reservation and assignment of IP address.

Virtual Machine Management

• Power Operations: Start, stop, and restart VMWare and HVM virtual machines.

• Snapshot Management: Create, revert, and delete virtual machine snapshots for VMWare and HVM virtual machines.

• Virtual Hardware Management: Add and remove virtual hardware such as hard disks, network interfaces, CPU and memory from a managed virtual machine (VM Essentials or VMware).

• Integrated Backup Management: Create, restore, and delete virtual machine backups for VMware and HVM virtual machines.

 

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