It is the Software technology that allows a single powerful computer to run or contain more that one computer or server.
Why is this good?
it is good because it allows a company to buy a server and make it run at 100% capacity rather that 45% that standard windows server might run at, now windows server 2008 R2 has virtualization included as standard. this means that they use less energy to run the computers and ease of management of hundreds of machines inside a few servers.
VMware Virtualization is a software that supports virtualization and other services. They are embedded hypervisors that run on server hardware without the need of other software.
Yes VMWare is a form of virualization along with XEN, Microsoft HyperV and Parallels
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VMWare provide virtualization software. They are a California-based company. VMware monitoring is mainly just making sure that the programs work correctly.
A Blog covering virtualization in general and vmware technologies
vmware ESX is an enterprise-level computer virtualization product offered by vmware, inc. ESX is a component of vmware's larger offering, Vmware Infrastructure, and adds management and reliability services to the core server product. Vmware is replacing the original ESX with ESX.
It is currently recommended that downloading a trial version of VMware can prove to be useful when it comes to expanding your knowledge of virtualization cloud computing.
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One can download VMware directly from their online product servers. This is a free virtualization server that can be installed on any operating system.
The vSphere a virtualization product in not only networking but a whole package of OS,networking,storage, backup with vshield as firewall and many more features. it covers all aspects of server/workstation.
Windows, Macintosh and most servers offer virtualization technologies. Microsoft has the VirtualPC software. The Mac can run most OSes (Windows, Linux) via Bootcamp or through VMWare Fusion or Parallels.
Windows virtualization allows server consolidation, development and testing, management for data centres, re-hosting, compatibility and availability partitions. Software is produced by Microsoft, Oracle, VMLite and VMWare among others.