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Transform IT Infrastructure with Enterprise-Class Virtualization

Start creating a self-optimizing IT infrastructure today with the most widely deployed software suite for optimizing and managing industry-standard IT environments through virtualization. VMware Infrastructure 3 is the next generation of industry-leading infrastructure virtualization software. It virtualizes servers, as well as storage and networking. This software package allows multiple unmodified operating systems and their applications to run independently in virtual machines while sharing physical resources. The suite delivers comprehensive virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability and operational automation capabilities.

Experience the Industry’s First Infrastructure Virtualization Suite

VMware Infrastructure 3 is a feature-rich suite that delivers the production-proven efficiency, availability and dynamic management needed to create a responsive data center. The suite includes:

  • 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 facilitates processor, memory, storage and networking resources into multiple virtual machines, giving you greater hardware utilization and flexibility. Production-proven at thousands for customers of all sizes, ESX Server delivers the highest levels of performance, scalability and flexibility.
    • VMware VMFS Deliver High-Performance Storage for Virtual Machines — Simplify virtual machine provisioning and administration with a high performance cluster file system optimized for virtual machines. VMware VMFS, technology unique to VMware, is the default storage system for virtual machine files on physical SCSI disks and partitions. Central storage of virtual machines with VMware VMFS provides more control, flexibility and performance in managing your virtualized IT environment.
    • VMware Virtual SMP Run Enterprise Workloads in Virtual Machines —Virtualize even your most processor-intensive enterprise applications. VMware Virtual SMP allows a single virtual machine to use up to four physical processors simultaneously. Scaling your virtual infrastructure is much easier with multiple processors working in parallel, in a single virtual machine. Only VMware provides symmetric multiprocessing for industry-standard virtual machines.
  • VMware VirtualCenter Manage, Automate and Optimize your IT Infrastructure —Achieve the highest levels of efficiency, automation, simplicity and security in managing a virtualized IT environment of any size with VMware VirtualCenter. VirtualCenter lets you rapidly provision virtual machines and monitor performance of physical servers and virtual machines. VirtualCenter intelligently optimizes resources, ensures high availability to all applications in virtual machines and makes your IT environment more responsive with virtualization-based distributed services such as VMware DRS, VMware HA and VMware VMotion.
    • VMware HA Provide High Availability at a Lower Cost — Deliver high availability across your entire virtualized IT environment without the cost or complexity of clustering solutions. VMware HA provides cost-effective high availability for any application running in a virtual machine, regardless of its operating system or underlying hardware configuration. VMware HA eliminates the need for dedicated stand-by hardware and additional software.
    • VMware DRS Dynamically Allocate System Resources — Align your IT infrastructure with your business goals by dynamically allocating and balancing computing resources with VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS). VMware DRS continuously monitors utilization across resource pools and intelligently allocates available resources among the virtual machines based on pre-defined rules that reflect business needs and changing priorities. When virtual machine resources are constrained, additional capacity is made available by migrating live virtual machines to a different physical server using VMware VMotion.
    • VMware VMotion Migrate Virtual Machines with Zero Downtime — Move running virtual machines from one physical server to another with no impact to end users. VMware VMotion keeps your IT environment up and running, giving you unprecedented flexibility and availability to meet the increasing demands of your business and end users.
  • VMware Consolidated Backup Cost-Effectively Back Up Your Virtual Machines — Perform virtual machine backup at any time. VMware Consolidated Backup provides an easy-to-use, centralized backup facility that leverages a centralized proxy server and reduces the load on production ESX Server hosts.

Enterprise-Class Tool for Physical to Virtual Machine Migration

VMware P2V Assistant is an enterprise-class migration tool that transforms an image of an existing physical system into a VMware virtual machine. This easy-to-use market-proven tool enables fast and reliable physical to virtual machine migration for heterogeneous Windows systems ranging from Windows NT 4 to Windows Server 2003.

VMware P2V Assistant allows you to:

  • Non-intrusively copy and transform physical systems into VMware virtual machines
  • Migrate legacy servers to new hardware with no need to reinstall operating systems or application software
  • Perform migrations across heterogeneous hardware
  • Proactively readjust disk sizes, types and partitions to maximize utilization of storage resources