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Use the applications you already know and get business continuity protection from the industry’s leading virtualization platform. End users can securely access their email or desktop from any device, while VMware's policy-based automation keeps IT management simple.

Get Started with the Most Proven and Reliable Hypervisor

Only VMware virtualization is built on a truly-thin hypervisor that has no dependency on the underlying operating system. The small footprint reduces the attack surface for external threats and therefore requires fewer patches. Why does this matter? A larger footprint makes you more vulnerable to attack from external threats, and as the foundation of all your applications, resiliency to this component is critical. If a device driver fails, all virtual machines on that physical machine will fail.  VMware protects your virtual machines with device drivers oprtimized for virtual machines, built-in I/O control at the hypervisor level and advanced memory management techniques that make memory usage more efficient.

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Use the Most Trusted Virtualization Solution for SMBs

VMware is the most trusted virtualization vendor across all industries and company sizes. Used by more than 190,000 customers worldwide, including 80% of small businesses, independent analysts from Gartner have named VMware as the lone leader in the Magic Quadrant.

Get a Higher ROI with VMware

VMware's total cost of ownership is actually cheaper than the "free" solutions from other vendors. First, our higher virtual machine density means you'll fit more applications on each server so you'll need fewer servers. Fewer servers mean lower operational and capital expenses because you buy less hardware, use less power and need less space. And you can maintain those fewer machines with a smaller staff. On top of all that, our expanded feature set and integrated management tools lowers the total cost of ownership even more. Learn more about the total true cost of ownership.

See how VMware vSphere helps you cut capital and operational costs in the datacenter. And when you're ready, try it free for 60 days.

VMware is Easy to Use

Every company needs high availability and disaster recovery capabilities, no matter how large or small. What you don't need is a solution that overwhelms your staff with its complexity. VMware has reduced the operational complexity of virtualization so you can more easily deploy and manage a virtualized infrastructure. VMware virtualization delivers business continuity without complexity and gives you:

SMB Feature Comparison Table
Hypervisor Attributes VMware vSphere 5 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with Hyper-V Citrix XenServer 6
Configuration Maximums 160 logical cores per host
2TB physical RAM per host
8 vCPUs per VM
1TB RAM per VM
64 logical cores per host
1TB physical RAM per host
4 vCPUs per VM
64GB RAM per VM
64 logical cores per host
1TB physical RAM per host
32 vCPUs per VM
128GB RAM per VM
Small Disk Footprint 144 MB disk footprint >3GB disk footprint >1GB disk footprint
OS Independence No reliance on general purpose operating system Relies on Windows 2008 in Parent Partition Relies on Linux in Dom 0 management partition
Hardened Drivers Optimized with hardware vendors Generic Windows drivers Generic Linux Drivers
Advanced Memory
Management
Ability to reclaim unused memory, de-duplicate memory pages, compress memory pages Recently added memory ballooning; no deduplication or compression of pages Recently added basic overcommit; no deduplication or compression of pages
Advanced Storage
Management
True cluster file system (VMFS) Lacks an integrated cluster file system Lacks an integrated cluster file system, storage features support very few arrays
High I/O Scalability Direct driver model I/O bottleneck in parent OS I/O bottleneck in Dom0 management OS
Broad Guest OS Support Over 80 OSs supported 25 OSs supported 29 OSs supported

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