VMware Infrastructure
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| Developer(s) | VMware, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 3.5 Update 4 / March 30, 2009 |
| Platform | x86-compatible |
| Type | Virtual machine suite |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | VMware Infrastructure |
In the field of computing, VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI) consists of a suite of virtualization products from VMware, Inc. (a division of EMC Corporation). The suite includes:
- VMware ESX Server version 3
- VMware ESXi version 3.x
- VMware Virtual Center version 2
- Virtual SMP (which allows a guest operating system to "see" up to 4 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:
- VMware High Availability (HA)
- VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
- VMware Consolidated Backup
VMware Inc. released VMware Infrastructure 3 in June 2006. The suite comes in three "editions": Starter, Standard and Enterprise.
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[edit] Known limitations
Known limitations in VMware Infrastructure 3 may constrain the design of data centers:[1]
As of June 2008, limitations in VMware Infrastructure 3 version 3.5 include the following:
- Guest system maximum RAM: 64 GB
- Number of guest CPUs: 4
- Number of hosts in a 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
Other limitations exist, for example, volume size is limited to 64 TB with no more than 6 SCSI controllers per virtual machine; maximum number of remote consoles to a virtual machine is 10.
[edit] Future
VMware is now moving towards a cloud computing model with their VMware vSphere 4 release.
[edit] See also
- Comparison of platform virtual machines: a list of related virtualization software products
- List of VMware software
- Virtual appliance
- Virtual machine
- Virtualization
- VMware VMFS, the VMware SAN file system
- x86 virtualization
[edit] References
- ^ "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. Retrieved on 2008-09-05.
[edit] External links
- VMware Infrastructure product page - VMware, Inc.
- VMware Infrastructure 3 documentation
- VMware Infrastructure 3 demo - YouTube
