VMware ProductsOptimize and manage your IT infrastructure, from the desktop to the data center, by virtualizing your computing, storage and networking systems with VMware software. VMware products provide enterprise-class virtual machines that increase server and other resource utilization, improve performance, increase security and minimize system downtime, reducing the cost and complexity of delivering enterprise services. By leveraging your existing technology, VMware enables the roll out of new applications with less risk and lower platform costs. Build the Foundation of a Responsive Data Center Create the foundation for building a dynamic, self-optimizing data center with VMware ESX Server. ESX Server abstracts processor, memory, storage and networking resources into multiple virtual machines, giving you greater hardware utilization and flexibility. Production-proven at thousands of customers of all sizes, ESX Server delivers the highest levels of performance, scalability and flexibility. ESX Server installs on the “bare metal” and allows multiple unmodified operating systems and their applications to run in virtual machines that share physical resources. Leverage high performance shared storage for greater manageability, flexibility and availability Each virtual machine represents a complete system, with allocated processor power, memory, networking, storage and BIOS. Advanced resource allocation policies for virtual machines allow you to guarantee resources to even your most resource-intensive applications. A single virtual machine can use up to four physical processors with . Realize the Benefits of Virtualization- Realize production server consolidation and containment by running software applications on fewer servers.
- Provide advanced business continuity protection at lower cost and deliver high availability for critical applications.
- Streamline software test and development by consolidating disparate development, testing, and staging environments with multiple operating systems on the same hardware.
- Re-host legacy applications on new hardware for improved reliability.
- Achieve data center-class high availability with shared storage, SAN transparency, built-in storage access multipathing and support for Microsoft Clustering Services.
Virtualize any environment, from the corporate data center to the branch office, with a compatibility list that includes more than 200 server and storage systems. Run unmodified Windows, Linux, Solaris, and NetWare operating systems in virtual machines. Optimize virtual machine resource allocation with minimum, maximum and proportional resource sharing for CPU, memory, disk and network bandwidth. VMotion: Virtual Machine MobilityVMware VMotion technology, unique to VMware, leverages the complete virtualization of servers, storage and networking to move an entire running virtual machine instantaneously from one server to another. The entire state of a virtual machine is encapsulated by a set of files stored on shared storage, and VMware’s VMFS cluster file system allows both the source and the target ESX Server to access these virtual machine files concurrently. The active memory and precise execution state of a virtual machine can then be rapidly transmitted over a high speed network. Since the network is also virtualized by ESX Server, the virtual machine retains its network identity and connections, ensuring a seamless migration process. - Perform live migrations with zero downtime, undetectable to the user to ensure that mission-critical virtual machines maintain access to the resources they need.
- Continuously and automatically optimize virtual machines within resource pools.
- Perform hardware maintenance without scheduling downtime and disrupting business operations.
- Proactively move virtual machines away from failing or underperforming servers.
- Maintain an audit trail with a detailed record of migrations.
Reliably Manage Live Migrations with EaseBenefit from the reliability and manageability derived from a production-proven product used by thousands of customers for years. Live migration of virtual machines across your infrastructure is surprisingly simple with functionality that lets you perform multiple concurrent migrations to continuously optimize a virtual IT environment. Migrate any virtual machine running any operating system across any type of hardware and storage supported by VMware ESX Server, including Fibre Channel SAN, NAS and iSCSI SAN. |
