VMware Products: From the Desktop to the Datacenter
VMware is the recognized leader in virtualization technology solutions proven to increase the utilization of existing hardware and reduce capital and operational costs throughout the organization.
Hypervisor
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- VMware ESX
- VMware ESXi
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.
Get Reliability, Performance, and Cross-Platform Support
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- VMware ESX
- VMware ESXi
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
Attain High Levels of Resource Efficiency
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- VMware ESX
- VMware ESXi
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
Attain Higher Transactions per Physical Server
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- VMware ESX
- VMware ESXi
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
Improve Security, Performance, and Availability
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- VMware ESX
- VMware ESXi
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
- Products
- VMware Infrastructure 3
- VMware ESXi
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.
Aggregate your Infrastructure Resources
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- VMware Infrastructure 3
- VMware DRS
- VMware VMFS
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
Let Business Needs Drive IT Resource Allocations
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- VMware Infrastructure 3
- VMware DRS
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)
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
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
Datacenter Application & Infrastructure Management
Leverage the unique capabilities of VMware virtual machines to simplify the management of your applications and infrastructure. Proactively manage your VMware Infrastructure with VirtualCenter and solutions that automate key IT processes for more efficient, reliable, and available virtual datacenter operations. Discover how VMware extends its offerings through partnerships with leading management vendors, delivering end-to-end datacenter management.
Accelerate Application Development and QA Testing
Reduce your backlog of service requests with automated setup and teardown of complex application environments. Dynamically provision complex system and network configurations in seconds.
- Provide developers and QA engineers self-service access to a shared library of ready-to-go virtual machine configurations with VMware Lab Manager
- Suspend, capture, and share entire virtual machine environments
- Optimize application development cycle times and improve software quality
Reduce Risk with Automated Application Release
Release new or updated applications into production faster while minimizing maintenance windows and downtime risk.. Automate your release management process to reduce errors and improve service delivery levels.
- Update your production systems with confidence, knowing you’ve tested your patches on exact copies of production system configurations with VMware Stage Manager
- Complete change requests faster with an automated release management process
Deliver Superior Application Performance while Lowering Costs
Make sure your applications are delivering the service levels required by your business. Deliver a superior end-user experience by monitoring real-time end-to-end performance of each virtual machine and each component.
- Automatically map business services to the applications and infrastructure that support them
- Pinpoint performance bottlenecks by analyzing service levels of multitier applications
- Ensure maximum service levels at minimum costs by dynamically aligning infrastructure resources
Provision New Machines Quickly While Reducing Server Sprawl
Reduce the times it takes to provision new virtual machines from weeks to hours. Provision a new virtual machine quickly from templates in VMware VirtualCenter management server or directly from physical servers. Reduce virtual machine sprawl with automated provisioning.
- Automate the request, approval and deployment processes for new machines while getting a centralized view of all virtual machines across the datacenter with VMware Lifecycle Manager
- Speed the transition to a virtual environment by automatically converting physical machines to virtual ones with Converter
Manage Configuration and Change in the Datacenter
Ensure compliance with established configuration standards using virtual machine templates and automated patch management.
- Ensure compliance by using templates of pre-configured virtual machines with installed guest operating system and applications via VMware VirtualCenter
- Reduce your risk of error and downtime by automating patch management to track patch levels and ensure uniform application with VMware Update Manager
- Ensure maximum service levels at minimum costs by dynamically aligning infrastructure resources
Simplify Day to Day Operational Tasks
Simplify monitoring and reporting, filter events and alerts, and complete routine datacenter tasks in minutes rather than hours. Capture and analyze and proactively act upon information about your virtual infrastructure. Integration with third-party management tools and processes gives you end-to-end management and control.
- Manage and pre-empt problems by continuously monitoring physical servers and virtual machine availability and utilization with VMware VirtualCenter
- Automate repetitive day-to-day management tasks such as cloning or moving virtual machines with VI Toolkit
- Get customized interactive topology maps of your infrastructure and complete inventory data with VMware VirtualCenter
Plan and Design for Optimal Capacity Utilization
Reduce cost and deliver required service levels to support business goals and objectives with a better understanding of your IT capacity availability and needs.
- Inventory your physical environment and performance to plan your virtualization deployment and optimize capacity utilization with VMware Capacity Planner
- Derive the optimal solutions by modeling multiple scenarios
Minimize Downtime and Maximize Business Continuity
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- VMware Infrastructure 3
- VMware VirtualCenter
- VMware Site Recovery Manager
- VMware Consolidated Backup
Eliminate planned downtime, maximize availability, and ensure a rapid and reliable disaster recovery. Centralize your backup process and management of your recovery plans and eliminate complex manual processes for improved availability.
- Accelerate and simplify your recovery process by automating your disaster recovery process and testing your recovery plan without disrupting users with VMware Site Recovery Manager
- Use existing backup tools to perform centralized backups of your virtual machines at any time without impacting your virtualized servers with VMware Consolidated Backup
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.
Take control of your desktops
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- VMware VDI
- VMware ThinApp
- VMware ACE
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.
Reduce Development Time and Shrink QA and Support Costs
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- VMware Workstation
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
Run the Applications You Want on the Machines You Want
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- VMware Fusion
- VMware Player
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
Desktop Application & Infrastructure Management
Streamline and simplify the management of your desktops and applications using the capabilities provided by VMware desktop virtualization solutions. VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure provides centralized management, control, and security over traditional PC environments. IT administrators can rapidly provision, update and patch virtualized desktops and applications to provide desktop business continuity and minimize downtime.
Application Virtualization & Lifecycle
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- VMware ThinApp
- VMware Workstation
Reduce the complexity of the development and management of applications throughout its lifecycle of planning, packaging, testing, delivery, and audit.
- VMware Workstation provides a flexible, sandboxed environment for automating and streamlining test, development and QA. Reduce development time with features like multiple snapshots, and record & replay
- VMware ThinApp simplifies application packaging and reduces regression testing enabling users to run virtually any application on virtually any OS
- VMware ThinApp is agentless application virtualization that can work with existing lifecycle frameworks
Streamline Your Desktop Operations and Management
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- VMware VDI
Perform upgrades, patches and backups of desktops from a single location to reduce desktop maintenance and support costs. Desktops can be deployed and provisioned rapidly in minutes rather than days by deploying hardware independent virtual machines.
- Connect users to virtual desktops managed in the datacenter with VMware Virtual Desktop Manager (Included in VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure)
- Provision desktops to suit your business needs using the VMware Virtual Desktop Manager. IT administrators can deploy individual desktops for each user and create persistent or non-persistent desktop pools
- Securely access corporate applications and data using built-in SSL encrypted connection. Protect sensitive corporate information while enabling compliance
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