Infrastructure Services

Virtualize and Aggregate Hardware Resources

VMware vSphere™ infrastructure services transform discrete hardware resources into a shared mainframe-like computing platform that is incredibly resilient and capable of running the most demanding applications with near-native performance. 

VMware vSphere provides the following types of infrastructure services:

VMware vCompute: Infrastructure services that efficiently virtualize server resources and aggregate them into logical pools that can precisely be allocated to applications.

• VMware ESX™ and VMware ESXi provide a robust, production-proven, high performance virtualization layer that abstracts server hardware resources and allow their sharing by multiple virtual machines. Unique memory management and advanced scheduling capabilities of VMware ESX and ESXi allow for the highest consolidation ratios and the best application performance, in many cases, even better than physical servers.
• VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) aggregates compute resources across many clusters and dynamically allocates them to virtual machines based on business priorities, reducing management complexity through automation. VMware Distributed Power Management (DPM), included with VMware DRS, automates energy efficiency in VMware DRS clusters by continuously optimizing server power consumption within each cluster.

VMware vStorage: Infrastructure services that abstract storage resources from the complexity of underlying hardware systems to enable the most efficient utilization of storage capacity in virtualized environments.

• VMware vStorage Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) is a high-performance cluster file system that  allows efficient sharing and controls concurrent access to storage by virtualized servers.
• VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning provides dynamic allocation of storage capacity, allowing storage purchases to be deferred until they are really required, reducing storage spending by up to 50 percent.

VMware vNetwork: Infrastructure services that enable optimal administration and management of networking in virtual environments

• VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch simplifies and enhances the provisioning, administration and control of virtual machine networking in VMware vSphere™ environments. It also enables third-party distributed virtual switches such as the Cisco Nexus 1000V to be used in VMware vSphere™ environments, providing network administrators with familiar interfaces to control quality of service at the virtual machine level.