VMware
VMware, is the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems. Many of the largest companies in the World use VMware solutions to simplify their IT, fully utilising their existing computing investment. At the same time creatIng an ability to respond faster to changing business demands.
VMware Infrastructure 3, virtualizes servers, storage and networks, to transform IT infrastructure into an automated, always-on computer "utility plant." More than 100,000 companies of all sizes have been able to reduce the costs of their IT infrastructure, whilst streamlining the management of their IT environment and delivering better services levels to the business.
VMware Infrastructure 3 is available in the following editions:
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Products |
VMware E S X i2 |
VMware
Infrastructure
Foundation |
VMware
Infrastructure
Standard |
VMware
Infrastructure
Enterprise |
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Single server partitioning (Previously Starter) |
Virtualization for Small
Business or Branch office |
High Availability Infrastructure
Virtualization Suite for Any
Workload |
Enterprise-class Infrastructure
Virtualization Suite for the
Dynamic Data Center |
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VMware ESX of ESXi
VMFS
Virtual SMP |
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| VirtualCenter Agent |
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| Consolidated Backup |
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| Update Manager |
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| VMware HA |
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| VMotion |
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| Storage VMotion |
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| VMware DRS |
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| VirtualCenter Server |
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VMware Infrastructure 3 component description
VMware VirtualCenter
VMware VirtualCenter delivers centralized management, operational
automation, resource optimization and high availability to IT
environments. These capabilities equip IT environments with
unprecedented levels of serviceability, efficiency and reliability.
VMware VirtualCenter exposes a rich set of programmatic Web
service interfaces that enable integration with third-party system
management products, as well as customized development.
VMware VirtualCenter provides a central point of control for
managing, monitoring, provisioning and migrating virtual machines.
VMware Virtual SMP™ technology
VMware Virtual Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) technology
enhances virtual machine performance by enabling a single virtual
machine to use multiple physical processors simultaneously. Virtual
SMP allows for virtualization of the most processor and resourceintensive
enterprise applications and databases.
VMFS
VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) is a high-performance
cluster file system that allows multiple installations of VMware ESX
to access the same virtual machine storage concurrently. VMFS
enables the virtualization-based distributed infrastructure services
delivered by VMware VirtualCenter, VMware VMotion™ technology,
VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware High
Availability (HA).
VMware DRS
VMware DRS aligns available resources with pre-defined business
priorities while streamlining labor and resource intensive operations.
VMware DRS now also includes Distributed Power Management
(DPM), which balances workloads to reduce power consumption in
the datacenter.
VMware VMotion
VMware VMotion technology allows the live migration of virtual
machines from one physical server to another for non-disruptive
maintenance of IT environments.
VMware Storage VMotion
VMware Storage VMotion allows the live migration of virtual
machine disks from one shared storage location to another with no
disruption or downtime to application users.
VMware HA
VMware HA enables cost-effective application availability,
independent of hardware and operating systems.
VMware® Consolidated Backup
VMware Consolidated Backup provides an easy-to-use, centralized
backup facility for virtual machines. It enables virtual machine
contents to be backed up from a centralized Microsoft® Windows®
2003 proxy server, rather than directly from VMware ESX.
VMware® Update Manager
VMware Update Manager manages patches/updates for physical
VMware ESX as well as guest operating systems, enforcing
compliance and securing IT infrastructure.
More detailed information is available under the Data tab | 
