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.
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Simplifying your IT environment with VMware is fast and easy to do. The first step is to virtualize your environment with vSphere. Then use the vCenter Server management console to enable vSphere’s built-in business continuity features, and configure or add more capabilities as needed.
Also, you can use VMware consulting services to make sure you’re using best practices and getting the most out of your VMware deployment, or become a VMware Certified Professional with education services.
Virtualizing Your Environment with vSphere
- Install the hypervisor (ESXi). Do this directly on your servers or use our free web-based VMware Go wizard to guide you through the installation.
- Convert your existing physical servers into virtualized server hosts (a P2V conversion). VMware Converter does this for you. Simply provide a privileged username/password and configuration information (including source and destination data).
- Enable centralized management by setting up vCenter Server, and use the vSphere Client to identify the server hosts you’d like to manage in your virtualized environment.
Now you can manage and configure your virtual machines and server hosts, monitor CPU usage with the CPU reporting tool, create virtual machines at a click of a button, and much more.
Implementing Built-in Business Continuity
Once you’ve virtualized your environment with vSphere you’re mouse clicks away from enabling BCDR. For example:
- Implement business continuity and disaster recovery by turning on High Availability and automatic protection of your virtual machines. vCenter will automatically restart your virtual machines on working servers using the latest backup if a server hosts ever fails.
- Perform zero-downtime maintenance by automatically moving live virtual machines away from server hosts that need to be serviced—without any interruption to the application or end user.
- Ensure security and compliance with Update Manager, deploy and monitor all patches from a single pane of glass.
Using Advanced Capabilities
VMware pioneered x86 virtualization and continues to develop features only available from VMware. Whether it's policy-based automation of infrastructure resources, security and compliance, or advanced management features, all are integrated with vCenter Server.
Next Steps
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