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
