| VMware Server 1.0 Released |
| Wednesday, 12 July 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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Users can easily progress from VMware Server to VMware Infrastructure 3, the third generation of the industry-leading infrastructure virtualization software suite that allows entire industry-standard infrastructure farms to be managed as a shared utility and dynamically allocated to different business units or projects. The suite is designed to deliver comprehensive virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability and operational automation capabilities in an integrated offering. Today VMware Infrastructure is used by more than 20,000 companies worldwide of which more than 90 percent are running it in production server environments and 25 percent are choosing to standardize their industry-standard systems on it. VMware Server is feature-packed with the following capabilities: • Runs on standard x86 hardware • Support for 64-bit guest operating systems, including Linux, Windows, NetWare and Solaris • Support for VMware VirtualCenter to efficiently provision, monitor and manage infrastructure from a central management console • Experimental support for 2-Way Virtual SMP, enabling a single virtual machine to span multiple physical processors • Runs on a wider variety of Linux and Windows host and guest operating systems than any server virtualization product on the market • Ability to capture entire state of a virtual machine and roll back at any time with the click of a single button • Installs like an application with quick and easy, wizard-driven installation • Quick and easy, wizard-driven virtual machine creation • Support for VMware or Microsoft virtual machine format and Symantec LiveState Recovery images with VM Importer • Experimental support for Intel Virtualization Technology • Investment protection with an easy upgrade path to VMware Infrastructure Read the full press release here. Download here.
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