VMWare Introduction

Advantages of VMWare

• We can run multiple OS simultaneously. where as in normal PC we can install upto 4 OS but we can not run simultaneously.
• Reduce H/W,Maintenance and Cost. In the real time we need to maintain number of physical servers instead of that one physical server with VMWare Product is enough to run multiple OS.
• we can use idle resources not wasted.like CPU utilization,memory etc.
• Flexibility of working with OS.where as in our PC we can not minimize or maximize OS like windows (Example like notepad we can open notepad,minimize it and close it exactly same).
• VMWare is a virtualization  Technology software.

Virtual Environment Vendors and Products.

• Microsoft     -  VPC ,Virtual Sever- these products also called as Hyper-V
• XEN            -  XEN Server,XEN Citrix
• VMWARE   - Host Based Products,Bare Model(This is also called as Hyper Visor)

Host Based Products

• VMWare Workstation
• VMWare Server (Previously called as GSX )
• VMWare Player
• VMWare Converter

Bare Model or Hyper Visor

• ESX Server 4.0 also called as VSphere

Host Based Architecture

Bare Model Architecture