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Free Virtualization Products for First-Time Users
Run any virtual machine
VMware Player lets you evaluate new or pre-release software contained in virtual machines, without any installation or configuration hassles. You can also share existing virtual machines with colleagues or friends—just use VMware Player to run any virtual machine.
What is a virtual machine?
A virtual machine is a computer defined in software. It's like running a PC on your PC. VMware Player runs any virtual machine created by VMware Workstation, GSX Server or ESX Server. VMware Player also supports Microsoft virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery disk formats.
Copy and paste. Copy text and files between the virtual machine and the host PC.
Drag and drop. Drag and drop files between a Windows host PC and a Windows virtual machine.
Integrated Google Search. VMware Player includes Google search capabilities, fully integrated for conveniently searching the web without launching a browser. |
VMware Server Beta
Start experiencing the benefits of server virtualization
VMware Server is a robust yet easy to use product for users new to server virtualization technology. VMware Server enables companies to partition a physical server into multiple virtual machines, and to start experiencing the benefits of virtualization.
Benefits of VMware Server
- Provision a new server in minutes without investing in new hardware.
- Run Windows and Linux operating systems and applications on the same physical server.
- Increase the utilization of a physical server.
- Move virtual machines from one physical host to another without re-configuration.
With VMware Server you can:
- Streamline software development and testing by allowing developers to create multiple environments with different operating systems on the same server.
- Evaluate software in ready-to-run virtual machines without installation and configuration.
- Re-host legacy operating systems such as Windows NT Server 4.0 and Windows 2000 Server in a virtual machine running on new hardware and operating system.
- Simplify server provisioning by building a virtual machine once and deploying it multiple times.
- Leverage pre-built, ready-to-run virtual appliances that include virtual hardware, operating system and application environments. Virtual appliances for Web, email, proxy and other infrastructure services are available for download from the À VMTN Virtual Machine Center.
VMware Server is the first step to VMware Virtual Infrastructure
While VMware Server is a compelling product for new virtualization users, VMware Virtual Infrastructure products—ESX Server with Virtual SMP and VirtualCenter with VMotion—enable companies to implement large-scale production server consolidation, business continuity, and enterprise desktop solutions with enterprise-class performance, high availability, manageability and security. View a comparison between VMware Server and VMware Virtual Infrastructure. |
Data Center-Class Virtual Infrastructure for Mission-Critical Environments
VMware ESX Server is virtual infrastructure software for partitioning, consolidating and managing servers in mission-critical environments.
Ideally suited for enterprise data centers, ESX Server minimizes the total cost of ownership of computing infrastructure by increasing resource utilization and its hardware-independent virtual machines encapsulated in easy-to-manage files maximize administration flexibility.
VMware ESX Server allows enterprises to:
- Boost x86 server utilization to 60-80%
- Provision new systems faster with reduced hardware
- Decouple application workloads from underlying physical hardware for increased flexibility
- Dramatically lower the cost of business continuity
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Virtual Infrastructure Management Software for the Responsive Enterprise
VMware VirtualCenter is virtual infrastructure management software for businesses that want to build cost-effective next generation computing environments and optimized data centers. VirtualCenter provides a central point of control for your data center's virtual computing resources, driving flexibility, efficiency and responsiveness.
VMware VirtualCenter allows you to:
- Manage hundreds of servers from a single console
- Instantly provision new servers with standardized templates
- Secure the environment with robust access control
- Perform hardware maintenance with zero downtime
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Powerful Virtual Machine Software for the Technical Professional
VMware Workstation is powerful desktop virtualization software for software developers/testers and enterprise IT professionals that runs multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC. Users can run Windows, Linux, NetWare, or Solaris x86 in fully networked, portable virtual machines - no rebooting or hard drive partitioning required. VMware Workstation delivers excellent performance and advanced features such as memory optimization and the ability to manage multi-tier configurations and multiple snapshots.
With millions of customers and dozens of major product awards over the last six years, VMware Workstation is a proven technology that improves productivity and flexibility. An indispensable tool for software developers and IT professionals worldwide.
VMware Workstation enables users to:
- Configure and test multi-tier applications, application updates, and operating system patches on a single PC
- Easily restore or share archived test environments, reducing repetitive configuration and set-up time
- Streamline computer-based training by allowing students to always start from a "clean" state and experiment with multiple operating systems, applications, and tools in secure, isolated virtual machines
- Run software demos of complex or multi-tier configurations on a single laptop
- Accelerate help desk resolution of end-user problems with a library of pre-configured virtual machines
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VMware Server Replaces VMware GSX Server
VMware Server is a robust yet easy to use product for users new to server virtualization technology. VMware Server enables companies to partition a physical server into multiple virtual machines, and to start experiencing the benefits of virtualization. With VMware Server, companies can provision a new server in minutes without investing in new hardware, run multiple different operating systems and applications on the same physical host server, move virtual machines from one physical host to another without re-configuration, and much more!
VMware Server can be used to streamline software development and testing, evaluate software in ready-to-run virtual machines, re-host legacy applications or simplify server provisioning. In addition, users can leverage a wide variety of plug-and-play virtual appliances for commonly used infrastructure.
VMware Server offers more than GSX Server
In addition to the VMware GSX Server capabilities, the generally available release of VMware Server plans to offer the following unique features:
- Virtual SMP
- Experimental support for Intel® Virtualization Technology
- Support for 64-bit guest operating systems
Learn more about VMware Server.
Support and Subscription Options
VMware is fully committed to GSX Server customers' continued success. Notwithstanding VMware's Support and Subscription agreement terms, GSX Server will be fully supported by VMware for two years after VMware Server becomes generally available. GSX Server customers will be able to renew existing support contracts during that period.
Upgrade Options
The free VMware Server represents the upgrade path for all GSX Server customers. Once VMware Server is generally available, which is currently planned for Q2 2006, it will replace GSX Server as VMware's hosted server virtualization offering. At that time, VMware will also start offering Support and Subscription services for VMware Server for purchase.
VMware also offers very favorable terms for upgrading from GSX Server to VMware Virtual Infrastructure products—VMware ESX Server and VirtualCenter. To learn more about the terms of purchasing Support and Subscription for VMware Server or upgrading to ESX Server and VirtualCenter, please read VMware Server Order Information. |
The Assured Computing Environment for the Enterprise
VMware ACE gives security administrators the ability to lock down PC endpoints and protect critical company resources against the risks presented by unmanaged PCs.
With VMware ACE, security administrators package an IT-managed PC within a secured virtual machine and deploy it to an unmanaged physical PC. Once installed, VMware ACE offers complete control of the hardware configuration and networking capabilities of an unmanaged PC, transforming it into an IT-compliant PC endpoint.
VMware ACE is used by security administrators to:
- Provision secured, IT-managed endpoints on unmanaged PCs
- Secure confidential data on endpoint PCs
- Run multiple secure PC environments on a single PC
- Dramatically lower the cost of business continuity
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