# Provisioning Concepts

VM Essentials is a powerful provisioning and management platform for HVM clusters and VMware vCenter private cloud. Compared to other CMP platforms in the space, some terminology and concepts may differ. These concepts are documented in this section along with places where terminology may be slightly different compared with other platforms or with common industry parlance.

**Subtopics**  

- **[Instances](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007735en_us/render?page=GUID-4A3953E9-FB5E-4552-9DA3-EA1BBFAFC89D.html)**
- **[Containers / Nodes / Virtual Machines](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007735en_us/render?page=GUID-4F822F1E-105F-48CD-83A7-3BB562A5B147.html)**
- **[Hosts / Servers](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007735en_us/render?page=GUID-51BE3C61-0382-41CB-9598-7E2F353C1A0E.html)**
