# Features

- Virtual Machine Provisioning
- Backups / Snapshots
- Resource Groups
- Datastores and DRS Clusters
- Distributed Switches
- Datacenter / Cluster scoping
- Brownfield VM management and migration
- VMware to VMware migrations
- VMDK/OVF image conversion support
- Hypervisor Remote Console
- Periodic Synchronization
- Veeam Backup Integration
- Lifecycle Management and Resize
- Metadata tag sync

On top of all these features, VM Essentials also adds additional features to VMware that do not exist out of the box to make it easier to manage in multitenant environments as well as hybrid cloud environments:

- Cloud-Init Support
- VHD to VMDK Image Conversion
- QCOW2 to VMDK Image Conversion
- Multitenancy resource allocation
- Virtual Image management (Blueprints)
- Auto-scaling and recovery
