# Solution overview

Provides an overview of the components included in HPE Morpheus VM Essentials including HVM, and VM Essentials manager.

HPE Morpheus VM Essentials is a simplified virtualization solution designed for organizations seeking efficient virtual machine (VM) management. It provides core capabilities for provisioning, monitoring, and managing VMs across hybrid environments powered by HPE HVM and VMware by Broadcom environments, enabling enterprises and cloud providers to optimize resources and reduce operational overhead.

Its main components are a virtualization runtime called HVM which is installed on the hosts to run the virtual workloads and a centralized management interface called VME Manager that streamlines VM lifecycle operations—such as provisioning, configuration, and monitoring—while enforcing governance policies and enabling automation for routine tasks. Together, these components deliver a cost-effective, user-friendly platform that enhances agility while leveraging compliance and control in virtualized environments.

![HVM cluster](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00007332en_us/GUID-DC38099A-88CA-4236-8F9D-79A2C39593C4-high.png)

**What is HVM?**

HVM is the HPE‑powered virtualization runtime OS that gets installed on the servers that will support running virtual machines. This runtime is installed using an HPE‑provided ISO, which installs the required runtime libraries and components to create an HVM Cluster to create, run, and manage virtual machines. HVM provides a console that runs on top of the HVM Cluster to simplify configuration tasks like keyboard mapping, time synchronization and even the complete networking configuration.

**What is the HPE VM Essentials manager?**

The HPE VM Essentials manager is a centralized management interface that offers a unified control plane for administrators to manage the lifecycle of the HVM hosts, HVM Clusters and virtual machines. It streamlines VM lifecycle operations—such as provisioning, configuration, and monitoring—while enforcing governance policies and enabling automation for routine tasks.

Once deployed, HPE VM Essentials Manager takes advantage of powerful features including live migration of VMs across the HVM Cluster hosts with zero downtime, dynamically distribute workloads based on load, automatic failover of workloads following the loss of a host, and similar HVM capabilities at operational level. Provisioning new workloads is also made easy with the VM Essentials image library, automation tools, and powerful provisioning wizard. In addition to HVM clusters, VM Essentials also includes a deep integration into VMware vCenter, which also takes advantage of the same powerful provisioning wizard, automation engine, and monitoring capabilities.
