About VMware

VMware software is used throughout the enterprise – from the desktop to the data centre – to minimise total cost of ownership (TCO) of computing infrastructure by maximising its manageability, flexibility, and efficiency. By running services in virtual machines spread across one or more servers, VMware software helps businesses save money while gaining greater flexibility and control over their computing resources.

Production Server Consolidation

Server consolidation with VMware provides a solution for the challenge of costly server sprawl. By consolidating physical systems in the data center onto servers with VMware virtual infrastructure, enterprises experience lower hardware acquisition and maintenance costs, consolidation of idle system resources., increased operational efficiency, and cost-effective and consistent production environments.

VMware Consolidation Solutions

Implementing a server consolidation and containment solution with VMware virtual infrastructure software makes it possible to meet the challenges of server sprawl while building a better computing infrastructure that is ready to meet future computing needs.

VMware virtualisation technology makes it possible to package a complete x86 server-hardware, operating system, applications, and configurations-into a portable virtual machine package. Multiple virtual machines can then run simultaneously and independently on a single x86 server. This is possible because the virtualisation layer provided by VMware software provides each virtual machine a complete virtual hardware configuration while managing the sharing of server resources among virtual machines.

VMware software uses this technology to provide a simple, proven solution for consolidating servers. Each workload that previously required a dedicated physical server can be placed in a virtual machine, making it simple to consolidate multiple workloads onto each physical server.
                         
Unlike many consolidation solutions, a VMware solution provides the benefits of consolidation without requiring significant changes to existing applications and configurations. A VMware solution also makes it possible to ensure that consolidated workloads have exactly the resources that they need because it provides the ability to adjust resource allocations for each virtual machine as needed and to move running virtual machines between x86 servers without downtime.

In addition to consolidating servers today, implementing VMware virtual infrastructure provides a solution to contain future server growth. Requests for new servers can be fulfilled by provisioning virtual machines to existing physical servers with unutilised capacity rather than by purchasing new servers. This ability makes it possible to accurately forecast and strategically manage future growth in computing capacity.

Software Development Optimisation

Migrating enterprise application development and testing environments to virtual infrastructure results in immediate improvement in time to market and lower defect levels. VMware software encapsulates complete test platform applications and data into files, which can be easily stored, suspended, resumed, and transported between physical servers.

Business Continuity

Using virtual infrastructure, IT managers can improve all aspects of business continuity. Disaster recovery is faster and less expensive due to hardware independence between primary and failover servers. Scheduled hardware downtime is eliminated, and complete machines can be encapsulated into files for capture and recovery.