Raul,

I appreciate your answer and your time.    I understand the "Plus" is more powerful and can automate the process with little down time.   However, that is not worth $5,000 in my circumstances.

So I am left - trying to determine - if the "Essentials and Esxi" are of value to me.    They way I see it - if I don't have to ability to easily perform regular automated backup in some fashion and quickly restore it  to the same or different machine - there is little reason to pursue it.

Your answer indicated "you don't have much to choose from".    I take it to mean the capability to do the backups and an automated fashion and relocate if necessary is not there.

Once again I thank you for your answer and time.

Jim H