VMware Infrastructure

VMware InfrastructureDeveloper(s)| VMware, Inc.

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Stable release|

3.5 Update 4 / March 30, 2009; 17 years ago (2009-03-30)

Platform| x86-compatible
Type| Hypervisor
License| Proprietary
Website| vmware.com/products/vi/

VMware Infrastructure is a collection of virtualization products from VMware (a division of Dell Technologies). Virtualization is an abstraction layer that decouples hardware from operating systems. The VMware Infrastructure suite allows enterprises to optimize and manage their IT infrastructure through virtualization as an integrated offering. The core product families are vSphere, vSAN and NSX for on-premises virtualization.[1] VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is an infrastructure platform for hybrid cloud management.[1] The VMware Infrastructure suite is designed to span a large range of deployment types to provide maximum flexibility and scalability.

## Contents

* 1 Components
* 2 Limitations
* 3 Renaming
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Components

The suite included:

* VMware ESX Server version 3
* VMware ESXi version 3.x
* VMware vCenter version 2 (formally VMware VirtualCenter)
* Virtual SMP (which allows a guest operating system to "see" up to four CPUs in the virtual machine).

Users can supplement this software bundle by purchasing optional products, such as VMotion, as well as distributed services such as high availability (HA), distributed resource scheduler (DRS), or consolidated backup.

VMware Inc. released VMware Infrastructure 3 in June 2006. The suite came in three "editions": Starter, Standard and Enterprise.

## Limitations

Known limitations in VMware Infrastructure 3 may constrain the design of data centers:[2]

As of June 2008[update] limitations in VMware Infrastructure version 3.5 included the following:

* Guest system maximum RAM: 64 mb
* Number of guest CPUs: 4
* Number of hosts in an HA cluster: 32
* Number of hosts in a DRS cluster: 32
* Size of RAM per server: 256 GB
* Number of hosts managed by Virtual Center Server: 200
* Number of virtual machines managed by Virtual Center Server: 2000

No limitations were, for example,[clarification needed] volume size of 64 TB with no more than 6 SCSI controllers per virtual machine; maximum number of remote consoles to a virtual machine is 10.

It is also not possible to connect Fibre Channel tape drives, which hinders the ability to do backups using these drives.

## Renaming

VMware renamed their product VMware vSphere for release 4, and marketed it for cloud computing.

## See also

* Comparison of platform virtualization software
* Virtual appliance
* VMware VMFS, the VMware SAN file system
* x86 virtualization

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lockwood, M., Bittman, T., Hill, N., Warrilow, M., Spivak, G., Smith, D., … Bala, R. (n.d.). Vendor Rating: VMware. 16.
2. ↑ "Configuration Maximums for VMware Infrastructure 3". VMware, Inc.. 2008-06-18. http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35/vi3_35_25_config_max.pdf.

## External links

* VMware Infrastructure 3 documentation
* VMware Infrastructure 3 demo \- YouTube

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Virtualization software

Comparison of platform virtualization software

Hardware
virtualization
(hypervisors)|

| Native|

* Adeos
* CP/CMS
* Hyper-V
* KVM
* Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
* LDoms / Oracle VM Server for SPARC
* Logical Partition (LPAR)
* LynxSecure
* PikeOS
* Proxmox VE
* SIMMON
* VMware ESXi
* VMware vSphere
* vCloud
* VMware Infrastructure
* Xen
* Oracle VM Server for x86
* XenServer
* XtratuM
* z/VM

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Hosted|

| Specialized|

* Basilisk II
* bhyve
* Bochs
* Cooperative Linux
* DOSBox
* DOSEMU
* PCem
* PikeOS
* SheepShaver
* SIMH
* Windows on Windows
* Virtual DOS machine
* Win4Lin

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Independent|

* Microsoft Virtual Server
* Parallels Workstation
* Parallels Desktop for Mac
* Parallels Server for Mac
* PearPC
* QEMU
* VirtualBox
* Virtual Iron
* VMware Fusion
* VMware Player
* VMware Server
* VMware Workstation
* Windows Virtual PC

Tools|

* Ganeti
* oVirt
* System Center Virtual Machine Manager
* Virtual Machine Manager

OS-level
virtualization|

| Full stack|

* Container Linux
* Docker
* iCore Virtual Accounts
* Linux-VServer
* Turbo
* Virtuozzo

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Backends|

* chroot
* cgroups
* FreeBSD jail
* Linux namespaces
* lmctfy
* LXC
* OpenVZ
* seccomp
* vkernel
* Solaris Containers
* Workload Partitions

Orchestration|

* Amazon ECS
* Kubernetes
* OpenShift

Desktop
virtualization|

* Citrix XenApp
* Citrix XenDesktop
* Remote Desktop Services
* VMware Horizon View
* Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop

Application
virtualization|

* Ceedo
* Citrix XenApp
* Dalvik
* InstallFree
* Microsoft App-V
* Remote Desktop Services
* Symantec Workspace Virtualization
* Turbo
* VMware ThinApp
* ZeroVM

Network
virtualization|

* Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE)
* NVGRE
* Open vSwitch
* Virtual security switch
* Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)

See also: List of emulators

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