VMware Products: From the Desktop to the Datacenter
VMware is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter—bringing cloud computing to businesses of all sizes. Customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green.
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Products & Solutions Overview
Hypervisor
Abstract server processor, memory, storage, and networking resources into multiple virtual machines with VMware ESX and ESXi. Create the foundation for a dynamic and automated datacenter with a production-proven hypervisor. Secure your infrastructure with an operating system independent foundation while increasing the utilization and efficiency of hardware resources.
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Get Reliability, Performance, and Cross-Platform Support
Not tied to a legacy operating system, VMware bare-metal hypervisors give you compact, highly reliable software for creating virtual machines. Run even resource-intensive applications at near-native performance on our OS-independent hypervisors.
- Get improved reliability and ease of use with the smallest footprint hypervisor
- Eliminate vulnerabilities by eliminating general operating system interfaces and functions with an operating independent hypervisor
- Get the broadest array of guest operating systems support and enjoy broad hardware support with tested and hardened built-in drivers from over 250 partners
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Attain High Levels of Resource Efficiency
Consolidate machines at industry-leading consolidation ratios for the lowest TCO. Our unique resource efficiency features lets you consolidate applications as virtual machines on the minimal required hardware.
- Deduplicate shared memory between virtual machines and free memory for those applications that actually need it with our advanced memory management features and realize increased consolidation ratios
- Ensure high availability for consolidated virtual machines by sharing virtual machine files between servers to enable critical datacenter virtualization features
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Attain Higher Transactions per Physical Server
Support the most resource intensive applications with near-native performance and attain high consolidation ratios for mission-critical applications like databases, email, and ERP.
- Achieve superior performance with paravirtualized operating systems and device drivers that can communicate directly with the virtualization layer
- Speed up virtualization tasks associated with managing CPUs, memory, storage, and network with direct support of hardware optimizations designed by partners, including Intel VT and AMD-V
- Build large virtual machines of up to 4 virtual CPUs in a virtual machine with up to 64GB memory for even the largest applications
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Improve Security, Performance, and Availability
Take advantage of the hypervisors’ view into your virtual machines for improved security, performance, and availability. Examine virtual CPU, memory, storage, and network devices from outside the operating system to provide a new context for security and performance monitoring.
- Protect your virtualized infrastructure in ways not possible with physical machines by choosing from third-party security products that use VMSafe’s API
- Leverage an open approach to security that provides the most secure platform on which to virtualize business-critical applications.
- Ensure consistent and compliant security policies follow a virtual machine throughout its lifecycle of provisioning, migration, and deletion.
Datacenter Virtualization
Aggregate your IT resources for maximum efficiency, then flexibly allocate them to current high priority business needs. Deliver high availability for all your applications running on virtual machines through automatic restarts and by eliminating planned downtime. Reduce downtime with pervasive, cost effective protection against hardware failures. Eliminate planned hardware downtime with non-disruptive migration of applications across servers and storage.
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Aggregate your Infrastructure Resources
Increase the utilization of your datacenter resources by aggregating computing and memory capacity. Reduce the physical resources needed by maximizing your IT resources to achieve the highest operational efficiency.
- Create server resource pools of aggregated compute and memory capacity to enable efficient sharing of resources among virtual machines with VMware DRS
- Use VMware VMFS, a clustered file system for easy, efficient sharing of storage LUNs among virtual machines
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Let Business Needs Drive IT Resource Allocations
Align your IT resources to applications based on business needs and priorities. Maximize the ROI of putting your assets to work when and where you need them the most—even as those needs change.
- Dynamically allocate resources to virtual machines based on pre-defined priorities and business rules with VMware DRS
- Reduce power consumption in the datacenter by dynamically powering on and off servers as needed with Distributed Power Management (DPM)
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Deliver High Availability across the Datacenter
Offer cost-effective high availability for all your applications running on virtual machines. Reduce unplanned downtime without the cost or complexity of traditional clustering solutions.
- Rapidly recover from outages for high availability without the cost of maintaining standby hardware with identical configurations
- Automatically restart virtual machines in the case of OS failures with VMware High Availability
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Migrate Virtual Machines with no Impact to End Users
Eliminate hardware related planned downtime in your datacenter with live migration of virtual machines across servers and storage arrays. Perform multiple concurrent migrations to optimize your IT environment according to current needs and demands. Select the optimal server for a virtual machine and move it there instantly or schedule live migrations for later.
- Move running virtual machines from one physical server to another with no end-user impact with VMware VMotion
- Move running virtual machine disks from one storage location to another with no end user impact with Storage VMotion
Desktop Virtualization
Increase your desktop flexibility, security, and mobility with VMware desktop virtualization. Deliver the applications and solutions your workforce needs while strengthening security and control over corporate resources and sensitive data. Create virtual sandbox environments that reduce development time, optimize test workstations and shrink QA and support costs. Run virtually any operating system on a single computer.
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Take control of your desktops
Manage and support the flexible needs of your extended, global workforce while strengthening security and control over corporate resources and sensitive information
- Deploy and manage desktops on a proven, robust virtualization platform which streamlines the management of desktop components including applications and operating systems reducing the operational costs.
- Provides IT the flexibility to securely deploy client or server side virtual desktops and virtual applications
- Provide end users the freedom to access their personalized desktop anywhere, anytime using multiple devices
Deploy and manage platform-independent desktops while delivering a familiar user experience to your workforce.
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Reduce Development Time and Shrink QA and Support Costs
Consolidate multiple development and test workstations onto a single physical system running multiple virtual machines.
- Record and replay virtual machine activity to capture, diagnose, and resolve non-deterministic bugs and race conditions
- Create checkpoints in time of different states for better regression testing through virtual machine snapshots
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Run the Applications You Want on the Machines You Want
Enjoy OS independence. Run multiple operating systems on a single physical computer so you can use the applications you want and need.
- Easily run Windows applications on your Mac, including high end games and other graphic applications, with VMware Fusion
- Run Windows and Linux applications on Windows or Linux PCs with the free VMware Player
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