Here is the pricing information for VMware products in a formatted table and paragraphs based on the provided sources:

vSphere Pricing

vSphere Essentials Kit

• Starts at roughly $500 for up to three hosts.

vSphere Standard, Enterprise Plus, and Foundation

| Package | Per Core MSRP | Licenses Included/Notes |
|——————————-|—————|—————————————————————————————-|
| vSphere Cloud Foundation | $350 | vSphere Enterprise Plus, vSAN Enterprise, Aria Suite Enterprise, NSX Networking for VCF |
| vSphere Foundation | $135 | vSphere Enterprise Plus, vCenter Server Standard, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid |
| vSphere Standard | $50 | vSphere Standard, vCenter Server Standard |

• For small deployments:

  • vSphere Standard: 16 cores (1 host) – $2,400 (3-Year Term), 32 cores (2 hosts) – $4,800 (3-Year Term), etc..

• For larger deployments:

  • vSphere Enterprise Plus: Costs upward of $7,000 for comprehensive solutions.

Features

vSphere Standard

• Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
• Storage DRS
• Distributed Power Management (DPM)
• Storage Policy-Based Management
• I/O Controls (storage)
• Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
• vSphere Persistent Memory
• NVIDIA GRID vGPU
• Accelerated Graphics for VMs
• Dynamic DirectPath IO
• Storage vMotion
• Fault Tolerance (up to 2 vCPU)
• vSphere Replication
• Support for 4K Native Storage
• vSphere Quick Boot
• vCenter File-Based Backup and Restore.

vSphere Enterprise Plus

• All features of vSphere Standard plus:
  • Cross-vCenter vMotion
  • vCenter Hybrid Linked Mode
  • Proactive HA
  • Fault Tolerance (up to 8 vCPU)
  • vCenter High Availability (vCenter HA)
  • vCenter Server Appliance Migration
  • Cross vCenter Mixed Version Provisioning
  • Hot and Cold Migration to the Cloud
  • Policy-based Governance
  • Kubernetes Automation
  • Workload Lifecycle Management
  • vSphere Orchestration & Extensibility.

vSphere Foundation

• Includes features from vSphere Standard and additional features like:
  • Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
  • Aria Suite Standard
  • vSAN Enterprise (100GiB free per-core).