VMware
ESX Server
Build the Foundation
of a Responsive Data Center
Create the foundation for building
a dynamic, self-optimizing data center with VMware ESX Server.
ESX Server abstracts processor, memory, storage and networking
resources into multiple virtual machines, giving you greater
hardware utilization and flexibility. Production-proven
at thousands of customers of all sizes, ESX Server delivers
the highest levels of performance, scalability and flexibility.
Start Achieving the
Benefits of Virtualization
- ESX Server installs on the
-bare metal- and allows multiple unmodified operating
systems and their applications to run in virtual machines
that share physical resources.
- Each virtual machine represents
a complete system, with processors, memory, networking,
storage and BIOS.
- Advanced resource allocation
policies for virtual machines allow you to guarantee resources
to even your most resource-intensive applications.
Benefits of Virtualization:
- Realize production server
consolidation and containment by running software applications
on fewer servers.
- Provide advanced business
continuity protection at lower cost and deliver high
availability for critical applications.
- Streamline software test
and development by consolidating disparate development,
testing, and staging environments with multiple operating
systems on the same hardware.
- Re-host legacy applications
on new hardware for improved reliability.
Leverage the Most Advanced
Server, Storage and Networking Virtualization Platform
Improve service levels to even
the most resource-intensive applications with advanced resource
management, high availability and security features.
- Virtualize any environment,
from the corporate data center to the branch office, with
a compatibility list that includes more than 200 server
and storage systems. Run unmodified Windows, Linux, Solaris,
and NetWare operating systems in virtual machines.
- Leverage high performance
shared storage for greater manageability, flexibility
and availability with VMware VMFS.
- Run even the most resource
intensive enterprise applications in virtual machines
with expanded processor, memory and storage limits. Enable
a single virtual machine to use up to four physical processors
with VMware Virtual SMP.
- Optimize virtual machine
resource allocation with minimum, maximum and proportional
resource sharing for CPU, memory, disk and network bandwidth.
- Achieve data center-class
high availability with shared storage, SAN transparency,
built-in storage access multipathing and support for Microsoft
Clustering Services.
- Enhance IT infrastructure
security with LUN zoning and masking, VLAN traffic tagging
and filtering, and enforcing security at the Ethernet
layer.
|
