vSphere 8 essentials plus is aimed at small offices or branch locations. If you need to work with the cloud or move work to a hybrid cloud you should upgrade to a higher edition like vsphere standard or enterprise plus.

Virtual machines can be replicated from one host to another with the built in disaster recovery function of vSphere replication. This feature proves advantageous in safeguarding critical workloads in the event of hardware failure or data corruption.

Each branch office must have its own vSphere 8 essentials plus licenses. With vCenter server essentials you can manage up to three hosts at once. A higher version with more advanced management features are needed to manage multiple locations from a single screen.