The true statement is that HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software can be used to connect to and manage existing VMware clusters.
That means the product is not limited to brand-new HPE VM Essentials environments. It is also designed to help organizations continue operating VMware-based applications while managing those clusters through the HPE Morpheus platform.
In practical terms, that makes the software more flexible for mixed or transitional virtualized environments. HPE’s documentation frames this as part of a broader private cloud and virtualization management approach rather than a simple standalone hypervisor replacement.
A related detail is that HPE’s VM Essentials documentation says cluster creation behavior is consistent across the UI, API, and CLI, including default cluster and node names when no resource name is provided.