HP has added new VMware-optimized solutions that channel partners can offer their clients to build a path to the cloud while better utilizing their virtualization investments.
Channel partners play a strategic role in augmenting and extending virtualization capabilities for clients. With the new HP VirtualSystem optimized for VMware vSphere 5, and HP Virtualization Smart Bundlesfor VMware vSphere 5, HP is expanding business opportunities for channel partners serving enterprise clients as well as small and midsize business (SMB) accounts.  These solutions, along with new training and sales enablement tools, are designed to enhance channel partner business success by ensuring client satisfaction as they move to the cloud. 
By adding new HP VirtualSystem for VMwaresolutions to their portfolios, partners can target more profitable opportunities while speeding the sales and deployment lifecycle.

The new solutions deliver:-
•    Faster time to revenue, via streamlined and simplified solution sales and delivery of HP optimized VMware solutions.
•    Higher-value deals with long-term add-on potential as a result of moving from low-margin implementations to more profitable, strategic virtualization services and integrated systems. HP VirtualSystem lays the foundation for cloud computing, providing an easy upgrade path to HP CloudSystem and 
•    Improved quality of service with assured results from turnkey, optimized systems, enhancing a partner’s role as a long-term trusted advisor for deeper business relationships.
HP is also introducingHP Virtualization Smart Bundles for VMware vSphere 5, predefined solutions based on HP Converged Infrastructure designed exclusively for channel partner delivery to SMBs. These bundled solutions, built on the same technologies used in the world’s largest virtual data centers, are optimized for the range of applications most used by SMBs. They provide cost-effective, virtualized infrastructure that channel partners can customize to meet their clients’ business needs.
With HP Virtualization Smart Bundles, partners can offer clients optimized configurations that deliver predictable performance, reduce complexity and avoid the risks associated with creating virtualized infrastructure.  These solutions combine HP server, storage, networking and management with VMware virtualization to deliver a complete, cost-effective virtualized infrastructure.